Project Overview
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Development Time: 4 months
Team Size: 60
In a team of 60, I was one of the many level designers who worked on Hex rally Racers. I worked with teams on designing the environment for the Cloud Capital race track, placing proxy models and eventually adding final assets. I also helped to develop mechanics and gameplay for the game including the first iterations of the track ramps and the flythrough cameras before each race track.
Hex Rally Racers
Roles and Responsibilities
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Worked with several teams and to design the Cloud Capital track map
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Designed and created the first iteration of the forest environment of the Cloud Capital map
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Created the first iterations of the Games ramps
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Created the first iterations of each tracks fly through camera
Level Design
As a level designer I was given the task of researching materials for Hex Rally Racers, along with creating track, environments, mechanics, and gameplay. I Spent much of the pre-production stage of development researching games and creating examples of button layouts for our games controls on controller. I researched games such as Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for controls that would satisfy either a and based vehicle or flying based vehicle since our brooms would be floating.
Once the game controls were set we broke into teams and started designing tracks for our game. We were givn the goal of creating 6 unique tracks with 2 maps following 1 of 3 themes, forest, flying city, and mushrooms. I was placed in a team tasked with creating a track with a flying city theme, this track would become Cloud Capital. I helped design the layout of cloud capital along with creating the forest environment within the track.
Early iterations of the cloud capital maps
Cloud Capital
Cloud Capital Is the second track to include the flying city theme in Hex Rally Racers. The environments with the track include a Castle, a forest, and a village center, all on top of floating islands surrounded by clouds and floating rocks. A team of 2 artists and 4 level designers worked together to design and create cloud Capital. I helped design the layout of the track and focused on the forest environment for the majority of the tracks production.
Other work
Ramps
Outside of the environment and design of cloud capital I also Created the ramp mechanic for the game overall. The ramp gives a speed boost that can be adjusted individually. the model of the ramp can also be changed for different maps
Fly Through Camera
Outside of the environment and design of cloud capital I also Created the ramp mechanic for the game overall. The ramp gives a speed boost that can be adjusted individually. the model of the ramp can also be changed for different maps
