{"id":584,"date":"2026-05-15T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/?p=584"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:07:56","slug":"planning-out-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/2026\/05\/15\/planning-out-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Out Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now with the abilities and obstacles for each island planned out (In this post)<\/a>. It was time for me to start planning each level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a lost of inspiration from Celeste, I wanted the majority of the ‘rooms’ in the platforming sections of the game to fit entirely on the screen at once<\/a>. That way players could try to figure out what they had to do before attempting the levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I began greyboxing levels in Unity, I decided to ‘draw out’ level ideas in Miro by colouring shapes and arrows with a key. This way I could picture how the player would approach a level and its intended outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately I began this process on a drawing software but I lost the plans for Level 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Blue circle – Grapple object<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Yellow square – Upwards bounce pad<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Orange square – Sideways bounce pad<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Purple square + arrow – Moving platforms<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Green square – One-way platform, player can jump up on to it from beneath but can’t fall through it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    • Dotted Yellow Square + Arrow – Bubble Column, boosts the player in a direction (Turns on and off periodically)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Dotteded Red Square – Damages the player (Turns on and off periodically)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Post-level planning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Now that I had levels planned I had to create the obstacles that the player would face in each level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Now with the abilities and obstacles for each island planned out (In this post). It was time for me to start planning each level. Taking a lost of inspiration from Celeste, I wanted the majority of the ‘rooms’ in the platforming sections of the game to fit entirely on the screen at once. That way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sprint-1","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}