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1 关卡设计简介1 Introduction to Level Design本章内容游戏策划关卡设计师关卡设计剖析定义关卡关卡简要历史现今的关卡设计小结采访Ritual Entertainment的Richard Gray（外号“Levelord”）In This ChapterGame DesignLevel DesignersAnatomy of Level DesignDefining LevelsBrief History of LevelsLevel Design TodaySummaryInterview with Richard “Levelord” Gray of Ritual Entertainment作为一名关卡设计师，最难的事莫过于向别人解释你的工作内容。本章将会说明关卡是什么，它们从哪里来，谁创造了它们以及关卡设计对于现代视频或电脑游戏的意义。One of the hardest things about being a level designer is trying to explain to people what you do. This chapter will explain what levels are, where they came from, who makes them, and what “level design” means for the production of a modern video or computer game.游戏策划GAME DESIGN做任何事都需要策划者。策划者将概念转化为创造产品的详细计划。在游戏制作中，策划师就是把构思出的原始点子表达在纸上给别人看（以策划文档或草案的形式）并指导策划案向实际游戏转变的人。Everything that is made has a designer. A designer formulates plans for creating products from concepts. In games, the designer is the person who often conceives the original ideas, puts them on paper to present to others (in the form of a design document or rough demonstration), and supervises the transition from design to a working video game.从玩家角度出发是游戏策划师在整个游戏制作过程中的最高职责。简单的说，这意味着策划师就是玩家的“眼睛和耳朵”并且在游戏制作中代表了玩家的喜好。如果制作过程中出现诸如玩家需求没有满足之类的问题，策划师必须设法解决。当团队中某人想在游戏中加入自认为很酷的东西，策划师的职责就是估算出添加该部分的潜在风险，有多少玩家会用到这些，是否会改变玩家游戏体验，这种体验是好的或不好的。总之，我们是为了玩家做游戏而不是为我们自己，同时，策划师是处在开发团队上层并时刻以玩家的眼光而不是以一名对游戏了如指掌的疲劳的开发者的眼光来看待整个游戏的人。Being the player’s advocate is the highest function of a game designer during the entire process of making a game. Simply put, this means that designers are the “eyes and ears” of the player, and represent the interests of the audience during the production. If a problem occurs in creating a game such that the player’s needs are not met, the designer must find a solution. When someone on the team wants to add something he feels is really cool, it’s the designer’s job to evaluate the addition’s potential risks, how much players will really use it, and what changes it will make to the players’ experience, good or bad. In the en