Level design

Level design is the creation of locales, stages, or missions playable by a gamer in any type of computer or video game, using level design tools, such as Valve Hammer Editor[?] or UnrealEd[?]. Sometimes, professional 3D editing software[?], such as 3D Studio MAX[?], AutoCAD, Lightwave[?], or Maya is used.

Most level design is done for games of the real-time strategy and the first-person shooter genres.

External Links

• Valve Software ERC: a very complete Editing Resource Center for games of the Half-Life genre (http://www.valve-erc.com)
• Unreal series editing wiki (http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/)
• Another Half-Life resource (http://www.planethalf-life.com)