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Level Design Resources
Jobs
https://fiea.ucf.edu/industry/job-resources/
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Videos to Watch
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Designing Unforgettable Titanfall Single Player Levels with Action Blocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHGuHd9BgU
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Helpful Websites
A digital museum of video game levels
Things to Read
Why I Failed for Years at Level Design and Game Environments
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Level Design/ BlueprintsUnreal Editor (UE)
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Designer's guide to Unreal Engine keyboard shortcuts
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/designer-s-guide-to-unreal-engine-keyboard-shortcuts
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Lighting Essential Concepts and Effects
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Level Design/ Blueprints
World of Level Design (also has great UE4 tutorial videos):
https://worldofleveldesign.com/
Informative articles on composition with many examples:
http://www.clement-melendez.com/portfolio/articles/push-pull/composition
http://level-design.org/?page_id=2274
Blueprints - If you learn by reading:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/index.html
Else, YouTube and downloading free blueprint projects from Epic and dissection them & practicing their tactics
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C# scripting
Udemy (not free, but usually have good sales)
https://www.udemy.com/topic/c-sharp/
Paul & Ron
Once you have the basics, you can start making small apps/games to practice and use Paul and/or Ron if you get stuck
Google (not joking; lots of people looking for help online that most likely have your same question)
Get a free Visual Studio account to get access to Pluralsight trial for a limited time FREE – good resource to learn
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LinkedIn Learning (free for all UCF Students)
Microsoft themselves (also free, yay)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/index (many links in their descriptions that lead to their free tutorials)
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3D modeling
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Mike Hermes on YouTube (free)
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__tsqaKxxk
Also Pluralsight as mentioned for C#
Nick Z. and Cheryl
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Portfolio Websites
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https://www.ryanwinterdesign.com
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Cohort 19
https://adrienneboatright.wixsite.com/adrienne-boatright
https://figueroaj2797.wixsite.com/javier-figueroa
https://dylankochsgamedesignportfolio.wordpress.com
https://tdkosier.wixsite.com/portfolio
https://menard8282.wixsite.com/website
https://timothyray90.wixsite.com/timothyray
https://mariahsampson.myportfolio.com/
https://danielthompson.squarespace.com
https://jingyuyan.squarespace.com
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Cohort 18
https://corbinelijah16.wixsite.com/my-site
https://www.nealgallagherdesign.com/
https://www.karthikgoparaju.com/
https://treymartinezdev.wixsite.com/tmartinezdevsite
https://breannaseale.weebly.com/
https://zummerz36.wixsite.com/my-site
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