Hi!
My name is Enrique Colinet, I'm 34 years old and I've been working as a professional game
and level designer for 11 years.
Level designers work with only two main tools: One being the documentation, to list and understand
all the requirements needed for the level to work in the final version of the game,
and the second one being the best part: the "blockout", also called "grayboxing".
Our job is not to make a level pretty.
Our job is just to make it functional and, unless something has to look pretty in graybox
for any special reason, we usually don't need a car to look like a car or a tree to look like a tree.
We work with blocks, like LEGOs, so we can roughly define in a level editor the spaces
that players will navigate and the events that they will experience on them.
This rough blockout of the level serves as a canvas for everyone on the team to work on it.
And... well, this is a problem for us level designers, specially when we want to show
to someone our contribution for that game.
Artists replace the rough geometry that we created so the final art of the level can
be added, so our pretty graybox level is lost, forever.
And that's a pity, because most people don't know about
how games look like when the production begins.
In my personal case is even worse: My first project, COPS, was cancelled before
the production phase.
For the second one, Spec Ops The Line, I'm legally oblidged to not show to anyone the
material captured during development... and for the third one, Dead Island 2... well,
it's a game still in development so I'm still under NDA. 11 years and I cannot show NONE
of my grayboxing work publicly... and THAT makes me angry!
Because I love grayboxing!
So last year, a guy named Michael Barclay, currently working for the game studio Naughty
Dog, had a great idea: if artists had "Inktober" and animators had "Animtober"... why level
designers don't have "Blocktober"?
A whole month to practice and show publicly what we do in the shadows.
AND I LOVED THE IDEA!
During October I'll be showing several blockouts that I've been creating just for the fun of
it for the last 2 months, some of them prettier than they need to be for a graybox level to
be honest, so I have finally something to show on my professional reel.
I'll be using 4 tools: Unreal 4, Hammer Editor for Source Engine, Probuilder and SabreCSG
for the Unity Engine.
Well! Are you ready?
Because I am!
So let's start Blocktober 2018!!!
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