Level Design

Intentions for this level:

• Environmental obstacles - buildings/signs falling into path

• Player flying over buildings at times

• Semi orbital path to center of city

• Transition to boss fight (different gamemode) at the end of spline

• Large boss that can be seen from multiple points throughout the city

• Something interesting frame at all times

What is Tax Fraug?

• Tax Fraug is simple yet fast-paced, high-risk, high-reward 3rd person Rail-Shooter! The other two levels in the game 

• The 2 previous levels in the game featured only on-rails gameplay so for this final Boss level we wanted a transition from the traditional gameplay players are used to into the Boss fight gamemode where you can orbit around the Boss or stay still to shoot

Intentions for level art

• Match the style of the cities in previous levels

• Don't include unneccessary assets that aren't in the player's view

• Blend of nature in the city, populate islands with trees to match the feeling of the border of the city

• Varying building heights throughout the city to emphasize the worldbuilding and tone of a city

I filled in 3 islands before going out of town so our other level designer took what I had done and duplicated it for other islands and filled in the rest with buildings on his own. When I returned, I filled in all of the trees and streetlights, making adjustments to building placements where they were needed. I also played through the spline repeatedly to ensure there were no trees or especially lights anywhere on the map that was blocked from the player's view during gameplay.