Level Design Pandemic

Pandemic is a Horror Level Design based on the laboratories where works with bacterias and other viruses, this level is focused on the survival of the player, the player must survive trying to avoid contact with other people running and jumping because the people that are infected with the virus can be transmit to human another human.

Laboratory - Waiting Room

The Level Design is for explorers that want to escape from an abandon laboratory, he will be stuck because the room is blocked, and will cause despair and anxiety due to tight spaces and fear of dense darkness.

Laboratory - Path to First Room

The paths must be in one direction and the only lights on the level are the emergency ones for evasion, this increase the anxiety due to tight spaces and fear of dense darkness, this make the player feel trapped.

Laboratory - First Room

The Level design gives the experience of what happened in that environment and try to make you feel confusion due to his disorientation and that will generate an anxiety of seeing the consequences of the virus just looking and wondering how the environment gone that far.

Laboratory - First Room Items and Collectibles

In the Level, there are Items and Collectibles that the player must pick up to understand what happened in that place and some supplies to survive as lights, batteries and notes.

Laboratory - Path to Laboratories

The Level is intended to cause despair and anxiety due to tight spaces and fear of dense darkness, this make the player feel trapped but also entertainment with an automatic doors.

Laboratory - Infected People in the Laboratory 1

In this part of the level, you must walk and jump to get out of there, the area is an open and closed space with chemical container to jump and avoid the infected people, this will make it feel the experience with tension, stress and ambulophobia.

Laboratory - Infected People in the Laboratory 2

Here is where the player see the people with the virus for first time face to face and the only way to escape from that area is making a leap of faith in the light at the end of the Laboratory.

Laboratory - Experiments

This part of the Level is almost the end of the adventure where you escape from the big laboratory and now survive by your own without get infected with the virus...

Level Design Document - Jesus Gutierrez

This level design document is focused on the elaboration and construction planning of the "Pandemic" level. With a brief explanation on where, how and when the horror elements will be implemented to recreate the essence of a Scientific Laboratory.

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