SS:Shatterverse - LD process

I worked on Serious Sam: Shatterverse for about 2.5 years as a level designer, starting from an intern and making it to A2 level designer before I was transferred onto a different project at Behaviour.

I would like to explain and go over the level design process that I followed when working on Serious Sam: Shatterverse

1. Choose or be assigned a level theme / biome

2. Define the goal / objective of the map

3. Plan out the general layout

4. Edit a Grey box blockout

5. Edit combat encounters / triggers

6. Group test
   - Repeat steps 4-6 until satisfied -

7. Bring to Level artist

8. Verification