Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design

Chapter 5. THE BIG LIST OF ENVIRONMENTS¹

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• Abandoned city

• Air/clouds

• Airplane

• Airport/airship port

• Alien planet

• Alien ship

• Amphitheatre

• Ancient ruins

• Aquarium

• Arcade

• Atlantis

• Bank

• Bar/cantina

• Barren rock (planetoid or moon)

• Battlefield/war zone/no man's land

• Bayou

• Beach

• Biomechanical area (à la Alien)

• Boardwalk

• Campsite

• Candy land

• Carnival

• Casino/Las Vegas/Atlantic City

• Castle

• Cave

• Chemical plant

• Chinatown

• Chinese temple

• Church

• Circus

• City street

• Cliff city

• Clock tower

• Concert hall

• Construction site

• Crack house

• Cruise ship

• Cyberspace/computer world (à la Tron)

• Desert

• Desert island

• Disco

• Dungeon/catacombs

• Egypt/Egyptian tomb

• Factory

• Fairytale land

• Famous monument

• Farm/ranch

• Fast food restaurant

• Fire level/world

• Forest

• Fort

• Fort Knox/treasury

• Freeway

• Funeral home

• Futuristic city

• Garden

• Giant-sized world (can be applied to any theme)

• Glacier/ice flow

• Graveyard

• Haunted house

• Heaven/Olympus

• Hospital

• Hotel/inn

• House

• Ice

• Indian reservation/village/burial ground

• Inside a creature/on top of a giant creature

• Japanese dojo/temple

• Jungle

• Junkyard

• Kitchen

• Laboratory

• Library

• "Little" world (where the player has been shrunken down)

• Mall/marketplace

• Mansion

• Marina/seaport

• Mayan jungle/temple

• Maze/hedge/labyrinth

• Medieval village

• Metropolis/megalopolis/arcology

• Military base/Area 51

• Mines

• Missile silo

• Monastery

• Mountain

• Movie set/TV studio

• Movie theatre

• Moving train

• Museum

• New York City

• North pole

• Nuclear reactor

• Ocean park (à la "Sea World")

• Ocean surface

• Office building

• Oil refinery

• Opera house

• Oriental temple/dojo

• Palace

• Park

• Pirate ship/town

• Playground

• Police station

• Prehistoric village/caves ...