Doom Evaluation

Doom
Drawing of Stage One Map.
What are Weenies?
Guide players around the level.
Enhanced Weenies and encountering player movement
Open areas with "natural" lighting, Interesting colored fields
Using lighting to encourage player movement

Light illuminates the outside from the dark inside. Shiny objects/items attract players to obtain.

Posters

Alternative Maps & Posters

Hidden doorways that may not appear on the regular map unless special events trigger.

Presented Path & Posters

Main route to completing level

Presented Path vs. Exploration

Many areas have hidden pathways and dynamic level system, which adds another dimension to the gameplay. Map may appear flat but the height may vary and may lead the player to another part of the level on a different plane.

The Power of the Path - the illusion of Freedom

Openness of proceeding to the next level. The ability to heal and prepare for the slaughter of monsters with the known risk of possible death.

Rediscovering Rewards

Known items such as the armor or healing potions reward players as well as heals them to advance to the upcoming onslaught. Rediscovering them may reward players with the needed help.

Thematic Level Goals

Moral Story Telling

Lesson of Main Street

Don't get too crazy and heal when needed otherwise death will be upon us.

Level Items

Armor which increases the resistance of enemy attack as well as potions to recover hit points lost.

Thematic Level Goals

Illusional Narrative

The environment may tell a story about what may happen next.

Adding Danger

Applying it All

Warning/Foreshadowing

Noises in the distance and blood and corpses on the background

Maximizing the Path

Storytelling through Environment

The blood, gore and corpses are part of the background, which tell a story of danger and evil lurking in the environment.

Implied Threats

Map and Discovered Information

Some portions of the map reveal a path that we are curious to explore and we try to get to that room by figuring out the secret pathway or event that may trigger it.

Building Anticipation

Music quiets down while walking in a narrow or seemingly empty corridor expecting something to attack.

Weenies and Foreshadowing

Juxtaposing Interior and Exterior Spacellusional Narrative

Path may lead to different levels of the field while others are on the same plane such as the door that leads to another room.

The Clear Path Out