Yama Village

Yama Village is a small personal level design and blockout project.

Software used:

Autodesk Maya 2018

Unreal Engine 4

It's inspired by a video I saw by Polygon Academy and artist Vincent Lebocey. It's a small and dense Japanese-themed village nestled at the top of a mountain range - 'Yama' being the Japanese word for mountain. I created it within the open-world game design format, as it could be the type of place you could stumble upon in games like Ghost of Tsushima.

This goal of this project was to push my greybox blockout skills to tell a story within my level's design, and create a realistic composition that encourages player exploration.

While not as polished as a finished game, I would have implemented discoverable secrets like notes and diary entries that explain the state of the village, as well as more challenging terrain for the player to traverse had I took this project further.