Level design is the reflection about what makes a land alive, rich and challenging for the players. It includes the background, the story of the place that the players will discover step by step (rites, amber cubes), the ecosystem (mobs, agro zones, patrols, cartography, mats), but also the interactions they can have with the zone itself and its inhabitants (NPCs, tribes, quests, missions.
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