Erin Louise Harrison - Designer, Writer & Advocacy - The Siege and The Sandfox @ Cardboard Sword

The Siege and The Sandfox is a 2D stealth metroidvania with parkour platforming made for PC. This was my first job as a Level Designer in the games industry, and I had the pleasure to work with a small indie team who mentored me in my design skills.

My primary work was designing 2D levels in UE4 using custom tools which allowed me to design blockout levels using a tileset. However, I also wrote documentation about ability tutorialisation and standardising how we use interactables like pressure plates, as well as conducted research on similar games maps and created a report on my findings.

Blocking Out new Levels Using a 2D Tileset

Blocking out a basic path using the tileset

Redesigning the path so the shapes are clearer and intent is more legible

Widening the top path, and making sure I was quality checking my work so I was following the correct design for shapes such as the arches

The final version of this maze-like space with the interactables in

Scripting and tweaking the timing of a toxic gas chase sequence

updating existing blocked out Levels

For this area, I was asked to update the existing blockout and lead the player upward as well as teach them about floating along geysers

In this area, the player is sneaking into a locked off area that has heavy patrol from enemies, so there had to be lots of ways for entry and methods for stealth - I set up the navigation for the patrolling enemies and interactables