Project Help!

[lasherman]

I am taking video game design courses, and in our level design course we each need to design 5 different levels using Google SketchUp. I was wondering if anyone out there on the Escapist can give me a couple of ideas for location, themes, or time periods I could work with. I have already finished one set in an underground military bunker, and another set in a futuristic city, and I'm currently working on a sort of warehouse/factory level.

If you have any ideas, I'd really appreciate it if you would share, and once my teacher praises my work and I land a dream job working at a huge game company, (because that's the way the real world works, right?) I'll make sure you get some credit.

The one condition is that these levels have to be indoors, so no desert areas, or jungles, or thing like that. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

Edit: Also, these maps are specifically for 'Deathmatch' game modes, so we can't use single-path levels, or really objective based scenarios.

Edit Again: Forgot to mention it's for a shooter, using the Unreal Engine, so there's no magic or swordfights because we haven't learned how to make our own weapons yet, sorry.

Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions, I've finished up my project, and in case anyone is wondering I did a mall map and a sewer map. So, to the people who suggested those themes, pretend I posted a picture of a cookie here and said: 'You win a cookie'.

 

[wrecker77]

I dont know... Turn off the gravity, put on a blue filter and say your underwater- I dont design things for a reason.

Or make it steampunk. Steampunk makes evereything better.

 

[Gxas]

Tomb, Airport, man... now that I try to think of some, you've really covered everything already.

 

[Captain Pancake]

a shopping centre? though there may be a lot of different colours to process.

 

[x434343]

Design an adventure game in your house, like the house where you lived before college. Put some nice gels on it, too. Note, if you want depression but keep the colors active, use No-Color Blue, which works psychologically and subversively.

Airport

"I'm an Ultranationalist, I deserve to get through the lines quicker! BULLETS FOR ALL!"

 

[Birras]

Perhaps a flooded steampunk spaceship, wherein you must conserve oxygen while attempting to figure out a way to drain the excess water into space without losing oxygen and pressure for the entire ship.

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

Well, you need a sewer level and a lava level. There always has to be a sewer level and a lava level.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Have one on a boat. I guess that could work. If not that, perhaps a plane? Any big vehicle, such as maybe a spaceship, a submarine, a rocket, a space station/moonbase, anything. Maybe even a train.

An office block?

 

[Kuchinawa212]

You should make... A beatle theme

and since you asked for help you get:
But really, Ice stage, Fire stage, earth stage, air stage, and maybe twilight zone stage.

 

[lasherman]

a shopping centre? though there may be a lot of different colours to process.

Ooh, I hadn't thought of that. A sprawling shopping mall, with different weapons in different stores. I like it!

 

[T-Bone24]

Okey doke.

It's a castle, dark outside. Like, so dark, guys, you don't even know. Inside the castle is like, a modern laboratory, that has like, a big pool of inexplicable, ominous (but not too ominous) orange red green dark blue fluid. Over the pool is a raised metal catwalk from one end to the other. It is here the boss fight takes place.

[sub]THEN THE DOOM CANNONS THAT FIRE DOOOOOOM[/sub]

EDIT: Feel free to add to my unquestionable brilliance. PLEASE.

 

[DrDeath3191]

A mall, a bedroom where you're only 3 inches tall, and an observatory. I realize those aren't related in the slightest, but have fun with them anyway!

 

[Captain Pancake]

a shopping centre? though there may be a lot of different colours to process.

Ooh, I hadn't thought of that. A sprawling shopping mall, with different weapons in different stores. I like it!

Happy to help!

 

[Fenring]

Here's an idea, it's probably horrible, but...

A mine cart level. People would start in mine carts and it would pretty much be an on rails shooter.

 

[mikey300]

you could have city in the clouds or one to do with pyrimids and tombs or one in a peaceful village or one where everything is giant or everything is small you could have one in space i could go on for a long time but my suggestions would become stupid

 

[Chameliondude]

I'v always wanted to play in an art gallery, would be able to 'ahem' improve the works with my special basooka flamethrower brush, also original idea.

or What could be quite kl, take a normal setting, like say an office or a sudo japanese restaurant or an art gallery or boat/submarine, and make the characters perspective either changing or different, so the level either bigger or smaller than normal. or have changing gravity, eg a sinking ship flipping so you work yourself round the walls onto the ceiling, or a sudo japanese restaurant flying into space and gravity lessening.

 

[lasherman]

Okey doke.

It's a castle, dark outside. Like, so dark, guys, you don't even know. Inside the castle is like, a modern laboratory, that has like, a big pool of inexplicable, ominous (but not too ominous) orange red green dark blue fluid. Over the pool is a raised metal catwalk from one end to the other. It is here the boss fight takes place.

[sub]THEN THE DOOM CANNONS THAT FIRE DOOOOOOM[/sub]

EDIT: Feel free to add to my unquestionable brilliance. PLEASE.

Sounds pretty cool, but we are only doing deathmatch levels, so we can't use bosses, but I was kinda thinking about doing the inside of a creepy castle, and I like the 'mad scientist' vibe.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Fight mad unicorns in a jazz critics heroin mind, some enemies are real and some are hallucinations
Hey you wanted ideas, not necessarily good ones

 

[nbrown48]

the insides of someone's body. like the stomach or something.

 

[El Poncho]

A giant mansion level, People would spawn in different rooms across the house then meet in the middle where there is like an indoor exotic pool or something where the best weapons spawn.