The Mitsuki Corporation

"The Mitsuki Corporation" is an entry-level project incorporating assets built using brush editing, static meshes, Unreal Marketplace props, lighting, emissions, and level design best practices.

The assignment criteria:

• Critical path time between 90-180 seconds

• Players must traverse at least three character heights above and below their starting position

• Project must present content in accordance with the theme "Deconstructed". That theme can be expressed mechanically, aesthetically, or narratively.

• Teach, train, and test the player with exactly two non-primitive mechanics that are required to be used multiple times to complete the level

  • One skill based mechanic (requires timing/precision for effective use)

  • One movement based mechanic (modifies the player's location or ability to navigate through the space

• Have at least three checkpoints (including the start)

• At least 45 seconds of walkable space that indicates new content to the player 

• There must be a visual portal that depicts/reveals future gameplay and justifies the current context of play

• Build gameplay using the Unreal Engine Character and Controller classes as a base and expanding on that

• No more than one persistent level in addition to the main menu

• Consistent implementation of relevant and thematic sound effects (SFX) and ambient background music (BGM).

• Create all required UI (main menu, pause menu, dynamic on-screen HUD)

• Must have a gameplay-contextualized navigating NPC

Week 1: Initial Map and LDD Construction

A level design document including all written contexts and a map that reflects a capacity to meet the expectations of the project described above.

Week 2: Greybox

A blockout addressing architecture and furniture with consideration for Line-of-Sight, scale, and pacing, representing the previously submitted document's intentions.

Week 4: Mechanical Implementation

Prototype gameplay implementing all expected mechanics and systems at a functional level, facilitating progression, and incorporating non-debug UI.

Week 6: Asset Population

Populated and properly decorated space including architecture, furniture, trim, clutter. UI, and audio.

Week 8: Lighting

A refined lighting solution for the space with audio, polished population, and full thematic framing.

Week 9: Polish

A packaged shipping build of a highly polished experience.