Sara Boulian Interview

Tonight, Planet Dungeon Siege posted an interview with Sarah “Calix” Boulian, Gas Powered Games’ “level queen”. Sarah creates levels for the upcoming Dungeon Siege and has answered some questions about the design process. Here’s a taste:

PDS: What do you use as inspiration to keep you from repeating patterns?

Sarah Boulian: I’m always discovering new ways to manipulate nodes and put them together, and Dave and Kevin are constantly turning out new additions to our node sets, which allow for lots of new inspiration (and revisions to old levels!). I also try to keep things fresh by varying the levels I’m working on from day to day. So, I may spend one day on a heavily forested, snow level, while the next is spent on a flooded, marble dungeon deep below the ground.