LEAD LEVEL DESIGNER
Monaco 2 is a frantic, co-op, class-based heist game featuring fully procedurally 3D levels and the sequel to 2013 Independent Games Festival winner Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine.
Level Generation
Monaco 2's Porcedural Level Generation is super unique! Hundreds of small authored areas are stiched together into a continuous multi-floored 3d environment. Door locations, obstacles, npcs, and rewards are then algorithmically placed through the level to create a diversity of experience while maintaining a satisfying difficulty curve.
The level generator is incapable of planning ahead - it looks at all avaliable valid locations and randomly chooses one. Many levels include over a hundred rooms and up to 8 stories, so ensuring that levels are valid at all, let alone fun, thematically interesting, well paced, and diverse across different seeds required very careful tweaking of room placement order and constraints.
Screenshots of the same location in the Docks level across different seeds.
My Work
- Collaborated heavily with Award Winning Designer Andy Schatz on game play features
- Used custom procedural 3d level engine to create levels with thematic consistency but wide strategic variety
- Designed 15 of the game’s 16 levels from top to bottom
- Created asset lists for artists
- Wrote dialogue for NPCs and collaborated on plot
Gameplay
Critics on Monaco 2:
Monaco 2 is a vast improvement on the first game in every conceivable way...each level (is) set in a different beautiful destination... it’s worth it to simply sneak around the level to look at all the little touches, both to appreciate the artistry and to find alternate routes and special tools to use.
-GameGrin
A plus is their dynamic Procedural Levels (with) huge emphasis on replay-ability and improvisation.
-Movies, Games and Tech
(The levels are) procedurally generated by an AI mastermind designed to concoct high-stakes challenges and infinite sneaky, stealy fun… this inclusion is perhaps the biggest boon for Monaco 2, as it means the game has near-endless replayability.
-WorthPlaying
