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  • michael71510
  • Aug 28, 2025
  • 2 min read

Project:


All work in this level was created by myself (Michael Sanderson, 27th April 2025) using only the resources available to me within the Valve Hammer Editor (Valve Hammer Editor, 2025).


Blog:


Games


Dishonored 1, 2012, Arkane Studios 

Half Life 2, 2004, Valve Corporation 

Little Nightmares 2, 2021, Tarsier Studios 


Movies


The Bourne Identity, 2002, Doug Liman 



Sprint Board 

SANDERSON, Michael. 2025. ‘GAM271 Sprint Board’. Trello [online]. Available at: https://trello.com/b/ama4YyWi/gam271-sprint-board [accessed 10 Mar 2025]. 

 

Sources 

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COOK, Brian. 2017. Paris Alley. Pixels [online]. Available At: https://pixels.com/featured/paris-alley-brian-cook.html 

 

CRITICAL PATH. 2018. ‘ Ask a Developer: Emilia Schatz Talks Level Design’. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRDaXvkge8Y [accessed 12 Feb 2025]. 

 

DHCZERO. 2012. ‘Source SDK: Scripted Sequence Tutorial’. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BppeQ7K7P0s&list=PLX07ctvZbO8zQNdeAdxKp5_T0znLRkzRx&index=12 [accessed 19 Feb 2025]. 

‘Func_detail - Valve Developer Community’. 2025. [online]. Available at: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Func_detail [accessed 14 Apr 2025]. 

 

KNIBERG, Henrik. 2016. ‘Making Sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) - and Why I Prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable’. Crisp’s Blog [online]. Available at: https://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp [accessed 22 Apr 2025]. 

 

LEE, Steve. 2020. ‘The Level Design Portfolio Piece That Got Me into the Industry’. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TqwlNPG3dE&t=220s [accessed 12 Feb 2025]. 

 

LEE, Steve. 2022. ‘-Designing Gameplay “Skateboard First”, and Why (HL2 Level Part 2)’. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCMeH7a_Es&t=1351s [accessed 31 Jan 2025]. 

 

LEE, Steve. 2023. Dishonored 2 level designer critiques Dishonored 1 level. Youtube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQDWX3lv_w&t=1270s 

 

LIMAN, Doug. 2025. ‘The Bourne Identity (2002 Film)’. Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Bourne_Identity_(2002_film)&oldid=1284210953 [accessed 22 Apr 2025]. 

 

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REESE, Byrne. 2017. ‘The Skateboard Mindset in Product Development’. Medium [online]. Available at: https://medium.com/@byrnereese/the-skateboard-mindset-in-product-development-ddf3409d5e98 [accessed 1 Feb 2025]. 

 

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