How to Improve your Level Design Portfolio - 5 questions and tips
525In this video I answer 5 fundamental questions about how to approach level design portfolio work, to help you bag your first job in the industry.
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00:00 - Intro (and a disclaimer)
00:28 - Question 1: Focusing on game genres you like
01:47 - Question 2: Re-creating levels from existing games
02:49 - Question 3: Using level editors for existing games
04:17 - Question 4: Should I learn 3d modelling?
05:09 - Question 5: What is level scripting, and should I be able to code?
07:21 - Outro
I answer another 5 questions like these in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrkPj8GBPM
And this is all part of my Talking About Level Design video series, which I've collected into this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBhMQ8qnVWPV2XqMt3m57zQKXp-V2jS9
Discord server: https://discord.gg/geFkdZW5vp
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