Severed Steel (WIP)

In my free time i've made a level for Severed Steel, which is a fast FPS with an heavy emphasis on movemet and momentum.

The theme of my level was ESCAPE and Air movement.  In this game there are vent that  can push the player in a direction.  I wanted to use it in differents setup to create some variations. In addition to the theme, killings foes is not a requirement to get throught, it's more that they are here to slow you, because in this game you're quite a monster, alos, i watched some speedruns of the game and in the vast majority of the time, they 'aren't killing a lot of ennemies. You can play the level quite differently, some  will kill everything and some other are here to beat the timer.

Before i went into the level editor of the game, i planned my level with some sketches on draw.io and other on a paper. To do that, as i went further into the planning phase,  i created differents sections of the level/ beats, to help me create a feeling of progression for the player. 

The 2nd beat is the summit of  it where the player need to wall ride et use some fans to move forward. There is a small transition between the 2nd and the 3rd beat, where for the first time  a fan is an obstacle for him. It' s slowing and some foes are there. 

 In the third beat, a fan  is there to push the player in the air  and there is a lot of ennemies to fight. In the meantime the player need to destroy some explosive before leaving

Geometry : 

In Severed Steel, every  wall is destructible (except one), so players can create their own way to get trought by shooting on it or with the hand cannon (can explode a part of a wall).  You can also wall jump and do lot of cool stuff, but it can make a level quite hard to do. With all this information,  i tried several types of spaces, sometimes its some narrow corridors with ennemies to create an emphasis on tension, sometimes its more big squared spaces fillet with foes, because the player need to move a lot to dodge bullets.