Crown Wars: The Black Prince

Game presentation

Crown Wars is a medieval tactical RPG set during the 100 Years' War in France.

Domain management

Upgrade the various buildings on your domain throughout the game to unlock new upgrades and equipment.

Squad select

Customize and upgrade your units with a large choice of weapons, classes and skills. Then build your squad before each battle.

Battles selection

Choose where to send your troops depending on the resources you want to collect and the difficulty of the missions.

Tactical battles

Take on powerful enemies in turn-based tactical battles. Place your units carefully and take advantage of the terrain.

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Level Design

I worked on Crown Wars as a level designer.
The game's levels are divided into two types:

The main missions.
Levels are handcrafted by level designers and artists to add narrative elements during the mission. This also allows more memorable missions at the end of each chapter.

The secondary missions.

Levels are procedurally generated. For each one, a biome is randomly selected (villages, camps, forests, etc.) and then a random version of this biome is generated. This allows for an infinite number of secondary levels in the game.

My tasks

I worked mostly on procedural secondary missions.

My main task was to create and implement data presets respecting the LD rules already defined to obtain the desired environments.
I had to make sure that the result of each generation was credible and relevant in terms of gameplay. This implies that the levels are interesting from a strategic point of view (sufficient heights, sufficient cover and well-spread enemies) and also that all the LD rules already established are respected.
I also helped design some of the procedural system's features.