How to Design Game Levels &Adventures for Video and Tabletop

How to design entertaining episodes for video and tabletop games: levels, stages, adventures, scenarios, missions . . .

Created by: Lewis Pulsipher
Commercially Published Game Designer, College Teacher

What Will I Learn?

• What it is and isn't - and why you'd do it
• Questions you must consider when you make a level/adventure
• Producing the goods - obstacles, objectives, scale, linearity, style, mood, etc.
• Documentation
• Campaigns

Requirements

• You need to have some knowledge of game design, e.g. from my book or Learning Game Design audiovisual class
• You need to know how to play games that use levels/adventures

Target audience

• There are two major audiences: those who want to make levels for video games,
• and those who want to design adventures for tabletop RPGs
• It may also help those making scenarios for wargames