{"id":81057,"date":"2019-02-08T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336248"},"modified":"2019-02-08T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:06:00","slug":"what-makes-hitman-2-levels-tick-find-out-at-gdc-2019s-level-design-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/08\/what-makes-hitman-2-levels-tick-find-out-at-gdc-2019s-level-design-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes Hitman 2 levels tick? Find out at GDC 2019’s Level Design Workshop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have any interest in level design you’ll want to check out the popular\u00a0Level Design Workshop<\/a>\u00a0at the 2019\u00a0Game Developers Conference<\/a> next month, where you’ll get a chance to learn from folks who have worked on everything from big-budget blockbusters to arresting indie games.<\/p>\n

Notably, if crafting believable, authentic levels where it feels like real people live and work is important to you,\u00a0check out the GDC 2019\u00a0Design track<\/a>\u00a0talk on\u00a0“‘Hitman<\/em>‘ Levels as Social Spaces: The Social Anthropology of Level Design<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Presented by IO Interactive level designer Mette\u00a0Podenphant\u00a0Andersen, this Level Design Workshop\u00a0session will consist of three sections. First, Mette will cover framing and the analysis that sparked a change in the way the Hitman\u00a02\u00a0<\/em>team approached level design.<\/p>\n

Next, he will present an analysis of what happens when you look at game spaces as social spaces, and how that played out in the pre-production design of the levels in Hitman\u00a02<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally, Mette will discuss how the results of this exercise resulted in coining some new phrases and concepts that affected Hitman\u00a02<\/em>\u00a0from pre-production onward!<\/p>\n

The Level Design Workshop will also play host to fantastic talks like “Building New York in ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’: It’s Still Just Level Design<\/a>“, in which Insomniac’s Josue Benavidez\u00a0will share the fundamental level design principles that shaped\u00a0Marvel’s Spider-Man<\/em>, and “Rewarding Exploration with Collectibles and Gatherables<\/a>“, a talk from writer and designer Leah Miller that’s all about the best ways to place collectible items and other gatherables in your levels. Don’t miss it!<\/p>\n

For more details on these\u00a0(and many more!) talks, check out the\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0Session Scheduler<\/a>. There you can begin to lay out your GDC 2019,\u00a0which takes\u00a0place March 18th through the 22nd\u00a0at the (newly renovated!) Moscone Center in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bring your team to GDC! Register a group of 10 or more and save 10 percent\u00a0on conference passes. Learn more\u00a0here<\/a>.\u200b<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For more details on\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0visit the show’s\u00a0official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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If you have any interest in level design you’ll want to check out the popular\u00a0Level Design Workshop\u00a0at the 2019\u00a0Game Developers Conference next month, where you’ll get a chance to learn from folks who have worked on everything from big-budget blockbusters to arresting indie games. Notably, if crafting believable, authentic levels where it feels like real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}