Jarett Metcalfe

An extremely in-depth guide for entering the game industry as a game designer or level designer; I'm going to recommend it to everyone in my network. It's a little outdated, but most of the advice and information in the course is still rock solid. The development guides like the ones for planning portfolio projects and building a demo reel in particular are gold that I haven't gotten much information from anywhere else, from other industry professionals, books, college classes, or otherwise. I'd love to see a new version of this course for our post-pandemic world soon, especially as QA has since become a lot more competitive and thus maybe isn't the perfect foot in the door for new designers that it used to be (though I think that will be my career trajectory). Still, this is a fantastic place to start, has clarified a lot for me that I wondered about for years, and is sure to be a course I come back to often as I progress in my level design journey.
- Review by Nick Burnham on Video Game Design: Create A Competitive Design Portfolio