Left 4 Dead - Post Mortem Presentation

Jonathan Lampron“Night at the Museum”

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Issue 1: Too Open

The map is too open, so there is a lot of

wasted space. The player really has no

reason to not take the quickest path, so the design is inefficient.

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Issue 2: No Wayfinding

It is really easy to get lost in the map because

there is no sense of direction.

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Issue 3: No Sense of Location

The player really can’t tell where they are. The

map has no sense of identity.

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Moments

•When the Zombies did show up

•Spending a lot of time on it and then going back to the drawing board

•How hard it is to make something that lasts a while

•The textures and the lighting

•The lack of zombies

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Key Learnings

•Planning is (super) important

•It is better to layout first, then spruce it up

•Watching playtesting is the best way to improve

•Everything will work exactly the way you don’t want it to at first

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