Jacob Jordan: Games Design

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A blockout based off of my previous design for a level where the player infiltrates a Covenant Refinery. More specifically, this blockout is of the first two sections of the level, where the player moves through the jungles and enters the facility, ending with the player using the gravity lift. 

My main focus was in relearning how to use the terrain editor and creating a more interesting way of designing levels, offering multiple paths that lead to the same area to increase the replayabliity of a level. 

[dcswarbrick2000]

As I was one of the key level designers for my group I was tasked to make a section of the level within our setting, (an Underground train station) and this was the final paper design before I created it fully in UE4.

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Halo Covenant Refinery.pdf

This is a personal project I have been working on recently inspired by Halo in which the player takes control of Grey Team as they are sent to take out a former Covenant terrorist around the time Halo 5 is set. 

The level is intended as an early level in which the player is introduced to vehicles, fight through tight corridors and face off against a Scarab. 

The inspiration behind this was the lack of missions within the recent Halo games where you fight in areas with Covenant architecture, leading me to create this brief for myself. Any constructive feedback is welcomed

[thiccoraptor]

I think it sounds like a great level concept. I like how you’ve got Ghost ramps as an option for taking out the Scarab, similar to the ones in Halo 3’s first Scarab fight

[jacobjordan386]

Thanks! And yeah, I was inspired by both that Scarab fight and the one on The Ark due to an old Halo Waypoint video, I believe part of the Different Way to Campaign series, which showed players trying to get as many vehicles onto the Scarab as possible before just blowing the thing up

[jacobjordan386]

Halo Covenant Refinery.pdf

This is a personal project I have been working on recently inspired by Halo in which the player takes control of Grey Team as they are sent to take out a former Covenant terrorist around the time Halo 5 is set. 

The level is intended as an early level in which the player is introduced to vehicles, fight through tight corridors and face off against a Scarab. 

The inspiration behind this was the lack of missions within the recent Halo games where you fight in areas with Covenant architecture, leading me to create this brief for myself. Any constructive feedback is welcomed

[jacobjordan386]

The vertical slice my team and I have been working on is finished. I worked on the level design, some of the 3D models textures seen within this slice and I am happy with how this turned out

[jacobjordan386]

As part of my current assignment for the game me and my team are making, I was tasked with creating some posters that would appear during the train stations seen in the level. Inspired by classic drinks and horror posters, I created these two posters

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Work in progress screenshots of a level blockout me and a team are creating for a vertical slice. The idea is that the player is making their way through the underground but the trains are not running and things are not as they seem

[jacobjordan386]

 These are work in progress tunnels for a vertical slice I am working on currently. Within the slice, the player is trying to make their way through the London Underground, only to find everything to be twisted and a creature is chasing them. 

 An important part of the slice is that the player will be forced into the tunnels by the creature, leading to the creation of these assets. 

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Level Design Brief_ Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order.pdf

 For this assignment, I was tasked with creating a section of a level for a recent action-adventure game. Originally, I was going to create a section for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, but decided instead to focus on a more recent game due to having played it more recently. 

 The overall idea behind why I chose the setting for my level was to try and create a sequence that would feel truly different to what Jedi: Fallen Order offered in the game. For the majority of the game, the player is fighting on the surfaces of various planets, often in outdoor spaces, so for this, I wanted to create a location truly different. 

 I chose a Star Destroyer because while we have seen them in most Star Wars films, shows and games, we rarely see much of the inside, mainly seeing the bridge. So for this level, I wanted to explore more of the ship, taking the player through the detention block, corridors and a hangar. 

[jacobjordan386]

This is the finished boardgame me and my team created, called Chop Chop Chop. Based off of the Knife Game, players must make their way to the end of the board. The amount of spaces they move is determined by how many seconds they have left when they complete a single order of stabbing. To determine how long they have to complete a single order, they must roll two D6s. Due to the danger posed by real knives, we used fake knives to prevent any major risk to the players. 

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The current rules and feedback my team received from play-testing our board game. This feedback has been very helpful in further developing our ideas and improving

[jacobjordan386]

A prototype board for a board game I am creating as a project based off of five finger fillet. Instead of using a real knife, players use a fake for obvious safety reasons. 

To progress along the board, the player must get the knife from one side of their hand to the other within an amount of time determined by a dice roll. The amount of time they have left is how far they will move.  

[jacobjordan386]

Unreal Lighting Block-out with Commentary

This is a level I have lit up within Unreal. The idea behind the level is that the player is infiltrating a military base in the mountains as they look for a container which is filled with warheads that were stolen. The main goal of this level was to experiment with lighting the level

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This is a key that I was tasked with normal mapping. While the normal map isn’t perfect, how the indents on the key look sells the more detailed look I was going for. This image shows of the model in Unreal Engine

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Unreal Level Blockout

A video of my level blockout, in this level, the player is attempting to escape the city while an unnamed military organisation is searching for them. Eventually, while trying to escape, the player is forced to jump off of a balcony to escape from their pursuers 

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Sketches of a level I am working on. It begins with the player in a marketplace, pushing through the crowd as gunmen slowly begin to block off the exits. After solving a puzzle in the sewers, the player eventually makes their way back up to the surface and has to escape by jumping off a balcony and hopping into a boat. 

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Game Concept

Simulator Simulator Simulator Simulator is a 3rd person dark-stealth-sandbox game set on a modern day Hollywood film set and the surrounding area. You play as a disgruntled special effects artist and drone engineer who has been laid off a few too many times and has decided to wreak havoc on th...

A game concept I came up with where the player is in control of drones that are used to mess with NPCs within a world. The ultimate goal is to cause chaos within Hollywood and crash the film industry.