The Mountain Heist is the grand finale of the “City of Gold” campaign in which the Payday gang are facing the Triads in San Francisco, California. The Payday gang have been asked to forcibly remove the Triad leader from his post in order to install new leadership, while making a profit in the process. 

 

As with most heist levels this can be completed in both stealth and loud gameplay approaches. The heist features multiple options of approach at various points throughout to give the player an exciting new experience and encourage replayability.

 

I worked alongside a fellow level designer as we co-developed this level from paper concept to a few months before the contents release when I moved on to other content. My contributions towards this heist were:

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• Created level documentation - top down layout for parts of the level, gathered reference, asset lists, VO documents, gameplay objectives that fit the narrative brief

• Blocking out parts of the level in editor (proprietary version of the Diesel engine)

• Created and implemented gameplay assets - gameplay interactions, AI, SFX, VFX

• Prototyped and created new gameplay using existing tools and features

• Visual Node Scripting and Lua scripting to orchestrate gameplay

• Adding dynamic and replayable elements within the level to enhance replayability

• Bug fixing

 

Some elements I am particularly proud of implementing for this heist were:

 

• Created the top down layout for the Penthouse section of the level based on gathered reference

• Suggested and prototyped the Elevator dropping sequence

• Prototyped and implemented the car bursting through doors and off the building

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