Styx: Blades of Greed

Level Designer Stealth Game

📅 Duration : 2 years (july 2023 - july 2025)

🎮 Experience : Professional project at Cyanide Studio on an AA stealth game.

Skills

• Blocking : Level design from early blocking to a fully polished level, including adjustments to optimize AI patrols.
• 3D Modelisation Created multiple 3D assets essential for specific environments and for designing gameplay elements consistent with Styx’s mechanics.
• Quest Design : Developed varied missions, incorporating Blueprints to different extents depending on their complexity and length. Structured missions with multiple stages (objectives, markers, interactive events, boss scripting).
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration : Regular exchanges with the art and narrative teams to ensure coherence in levels and the game world.
• Narration Created placeholder dialogues and monologues to convey narrative intentions to the Narrative Designers.
• Debugging & Optimization : Optimized map navigation and resolved bugs.

About the Game

Play as Styx, a cunning and acrobatic goblin in a dark fantasy world. Your goal: infiltrate fortresses, steal Quartz, and manipulate your enemies with stealth. The game emphasizes verticality, special powers, and the hero’s dark humor.

🔗 Link Steam

Tactic Squad

Internship Game & Level Designer – Tactical RPG

📅 Duration : 2 months (june 2022 - august 2022))

🎮 Experience : Professional project at Gameloft Paris on a mobile tactical game.

Skills

• Level Design : Created about fifteen levels while respecting the Game Design constraints and used Excel to design the early-game puzzles.
• Integration :Implemented enemy patterns and action-reaction systems on an isometric grid.
• Doc GD :Created detailed design documents for units and game mechanics (abilities, cooldowns, range, etc.).
• Doc Ld :Created comprehensive documentation for level creation as well as for various bug tickets.
• Playtest :Conducted internal testing and iterations in collaboration with lead Game Designers and UX designers.

About the Game

Tactic Squad is a tactical strategy game inspired by the style of Into the Breach. The player controls a squad of heroes positioned on a grid according to a predefined layout. Each hero has specific abilities, can move a limited number of squares, and attack within a certain range. The objective is to eliminate enemies while protecting the vehicles on the battlefield.

🔗 Link GooglePlay

Auto Monster

Internship Game & Level Designer – AutoBattler arcade mobile

📅 Duration : 2 mois (Juin 2022 - Aout 2022)

🎮 Experience : Professional project at Gameloft Paris on Mobile Autobattler.

Skills

• Research and Design : Analyzed relevant references for this type of game, considering mechanics and desired player experience. Created a prototype map optimizing player movement to maximize captures before the combat phase.
• Map creation : Created a map blocking by dividing the area into multiple environments, implementing ingredients and creatures according to each environment.
• Playtest & Iteration :Participated in testing phases and improved the prototype based on received feedback.
• Finalization and Integration : Some of the improvements made were integrated into a version available on the Play Store.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration : Contributed to improving gameplay areas in collaboration with UI/UX artists to optimize interfaces and impact animations.

About the Game

Auto Monster is a competitive two-phase game combining capture and strategy. In an arena, players must first capture monsters while dodging their attacks. Then, the captured monsters automatically battle each other.

🔗 Link GooglePlay

Tu'iles

Level Designer – Puzzle game isometric

📅 Duration : 4 months (Final Project – 2021)

🎮 Experience : Game developed to validate my 3rd year of Bachelor’s degree, working in a team of 6 people.

Skills

• Level Design Tools ("Level Editor") : Desogned an internal editor in Unity to streamline level creation.
• Level Design & Iteration : Designed around twenty levels, taking into account technical constraints and constant iterations of the in-house level editor.
• Doc LD & Balancing : Progressive documentation of levels and implementation of a coherent difficulty curve, with evolving mechanics and constraints.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration :Close communication with the team, especially to balance certain elements and prevent gameplay imbalances.
• Playtest & ajustements : Adapted levels based on playtest feedback and iterated constantly following the many changes to the editor.

About the Game

Tu’iles is a party game for up to 4 players, where each participant plays a character who can collect resources to build and maintain tiles.

Netrunners

Level Designer - 3D artist – FFPS

📅 Duration : 1 months (Final Project – 2022)

🎮 Experience : Second-year student project on a fast-paced, rhythm-based FPS.

Skills

• Metrics & gamefeel : Tweaked the character controller for smooth and engaging movement.
• Level Design :Designed levels focused on the game’s core mechanics (parkour, dash, rhythmic shooting).
• Artistic direction :Creation and Integration of visual into level structure.
• Adaptability : Quickly took on the role of Level Designer in a fast-paced production context.

About the Game

Netrunners is a fast-paced FPS featuring parkour and rhythm-based gameplay.

• Parkour & Speed: Wallruns, dashes, smooth movements.
• Rhythm Dash: Synchronized to the tempo, it affects movement and reload.
• Unique Weapon: Only one bullet, recoverable by dash or kill — every shot counts.
• Combat & precision : Fast execution and precise timing to progress efficiently.

Netpusher

Level Designer - 3D artist – FFPS

📅 Duration : 4 days

🎮 Experience :Project developed during a game jam with 2 other students.

Skills

• Design of short and dynamic levels: Created tight spaces encouraging quick enemy takedowns.
• Strategic use of enemy placement: Encouraged the player to exploit push mechanics to progress efficiently.
• Adaptability and Initiative: Transitioned from Art Direction to Level Designer to ensure project completion.

About the Game

Netpusher is a fast-paced FPS where enemy elimination relies on pushing and spatial control.

• Push as the main weapon: No traditional weapons; the player hits or pushes enemies out of the arena.
• Interactive Objects: Ability to attract and throw objects to push back enemies.
• Objective: Eliminate all enemies and reach the blue smoke to complete the level.
• Compact levels: Fast pace and instant decision-making required.

Magical Removal

Level Designer - Game Designer – Puzzle Game Board Game

📅 Duration : 3 months

🎮 Experience :Project completed during my first year of game design with 3 other students.

Skills

• Level Design: Co-created half of the game’s levels by following a three-step process: dividing levels to design, defining their difficulty, then developing them on paper.
• Game Design: Participated in creating game mechanics and rules.
• Methodology and Iteration: Developed ideas on paper, conducted quick tests from early versions, and documented solutions in a level booklet to facilitate gameplay understanding.

About the Game

Magical Removal is a puzzle board game created during my first year of Game Design. The goal is simple: you control magicians and a crystal on a grid. Using the magicians' movements, you must move the crystal from point A to point B in each level.

🔗 Level booklet

Map Infiltration

Level Design- Created a stealth map.

📅 Duration : 2 weeks

🎮 Experience : Map created during my 3rd year at Ican as a Level Design assignment.

Skills

• Level Design :This map was created as part of an exercise requiring us to design a stealth map similar to Styx in this case.
• Methodology and Iteration: To design this level, I first set a clear objective for the player: retrieve a dagger and reach a high point to escape a city heavily guarded by numerous guards.
• Initial Blocking: I started by placing simple blocks to define the volumes and the overall layout of the buildings to come.
• Research of References: I then looked for architectural references to give visual and logical coherence to the structures.
• Structure Creation: Based on these references, I created models from my templates, ensuring they supported the mission’s narrative and gameplay.
• Gameplay Structuring: I placed crates to define movement paths, identified points of interest, set up player guidance markers, and finally integrated AI with their respective patrols.