Building a room for Pirates of the Burning Sea

A lot of people wonder how hard or easy it is to create the environment for a Game. Weather it is console or PC, a lot of work is involved before any room ever see the light of a Live game. Our Content and Design Lead wrote a devlog about all the work that's put in to create one room(port battle and fort).

"Defining the Goals for the Space / Brainstorming the Design

This phase is really the most important part of the process for the Design team. Defining the goals at the beginning sets the foundation for all subsequent work. We start by brainstorming and answering a battery of questions to focus on what is most important for the goals of the space. Design, Content and Art departments start working through the questions and generating ideas for the functional and visual aspects of the environment. We discuss some of the high level directives and usually walk away with a rough layout of the environment on a whiteboard or a piece of paper. Then we collect visual references and data to flesh out the design."















Read the rest of the article here, where he talks about how we take the room from Prototype to Production and then finally to test and polish!