Designing a Hotel

The Hotel:

• Hotel is inspired by Hotel de Crillon
• Originally meant to be symmetrical when viewed from the front
• Changed it because adding a corner helps establish goals

The old Layout of the Changed "Left Side":

• I wanted to add different Layers of Security/Difficulty, easily distinguishable by geometry, this helps separate the different layers of security visually
• Helps guide & let the player flow in the right direction towards the goal

Some of the Websites and Images I took as inspiration:

Architectural Digest - Hotel De Crillon

Terrace Inspiration

Tour of the Hotel

The Landscape:

• Outside bit was part of the original assignment, i decided to keep it because i thought it was nice & helps establish the mission & its goals
• Originally it was supposed to be inside Paris
• Changed to mountains because I personally find the environment more beautiful & fun to design
• It's easier to create a good looking environment, than a city
•  Natural Delimiters are very obvious and simple to implement
• Wanted to learn how to use the Landscaping tool in Unreal

Landscape Inspiration

Roof:

• Heavily inspired by the Hotel de Crillon
• Yet unused possibilities for gameplay