Level Design concept

Always been a fan of FPS and have played on probably thousands of different maps and navigated my way through lots of virtual environments, this project gives the opportunity to explore what I feel works as a FPS gaming environment.

I like the blasting the occasional sci-fi themed FPS but the themes that work for me are based on current times (especially online). I'd rather (virtually)shoot a (virtual)human with a (virtual)M4Carbine not shoot purple lasers out of a neon pink gun at a 'monster' wearing a crown... it goes slightly against the feeling of realistic immersion...so I'll be keeping my theme based on a current occurrence... like a war.... but where?...

I play Call of Duty - World at War quite abit and I'd be lying if I said that my inspiration for environments didn't come from environments from that... most of all the prequel, Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare. The environments are awesome, just as you would imagine a battle smashed street. All the little nooks you can snipe from and hide, debris from past confrontations. These are details I'd like to consider for my level design.

Because of the level of reference I'd need, I chose somewhere that I can get allot of access so that I can take all the picture I need. Im choosing The Boninington building... and theres been a war.

Ive worked on a few environment concepts... working from photos I imagined the destruction of war and took it out on the Bonington...

BONINGTON BOMB#REF/DES#1 -ENTRANCE

BONINGTON BOMB - ENTRANCE - TROY BROWNE

BONINGTON BOMB#REF/DES#2 -CORRIDOOR

BONINGTON BOMB - CORRIDOOR1 - TROY BROWNE

BONINGTON BOMB - CORRIDOOR2 - TROY BROWNE

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GIMP9

GIMP9 - TROY BROWNE Here's a new character for the animation part of the year...

Ive been looking at work by Yoji Shinkawa (character designer for Metal Gear Solid) and if you don't know, alot of this guys work is based in the future, which lead me to research robotics and the future of warfare... and I found lots of military projects that scare the crap out of me! One thing I found that is current is the Japanese Yoshiyuki Sankai's 'HAL' suit ( hybrid assisted limb ) which is an exoskeleton suit that amplifies the wearers strength 5 times!... the Americans are looking at its military potential...

Yoshiyuki Sankai's 'HAL' suit

Following on from this, I imagined the advances of this type of technology and decided to redesign the suit.

GIMP9 - TROY BROWNE

GIMP9 - TROY BROWNET.

Have you seen my brown sack...... boy?

LITTLE BIG PLANET - MEDIA MOLECULE 2008

-the main character is named 'sack boy' I was not referring to my genitalia.

I just got this game and have had a little blast on it and I think its living up to the hype people have been banging on about it. If you don't know by now it plays like a 2d platform game (like the some of the Mario games) and boasts to be the most customizable game environment ever. You can even design your own levels and upload them to the Playstation Network for other people to play on. User created content alone has projected the popularity of this game and has millions of fans uploading and enjoying The Little Big Planet universe worldwide.