Quick facts
Hi, I'm Michael Levy
Game Design student at Champlain College, crafting spaces that guide players, build tension, and make moments feel inevitable.
Layouts that guide players intuitively through space and challenge.
Experience with Unreal Engine 5, Unity, and Source 2 (Hammer).
Crafting tension, mood, and narrative through environmental detail.
Experience building games in small dev teams with shared tools.
Work
A selection of levels and games I've built or am building.
Team of 8
2026
Rhythm combat game built in a semester at Champlain's Montreal program. Fight a funk titan to the beat — dodge attacks, survive the genre gauntlet.
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Solo
2026
A custom Ready or Not level set in a decommissioned Montreal metro station taken over by a drug organization. Arrest the leader and bring him out alive.
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Solo
2025
Custom Ready or Not level — intense close-quarters combat in a confined medical facility. Tight sightlines and claustrophobic layouts force deliberate decisions.
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Solo
2025
An asymmetrical multiplayer level for the Lyra Starter Game. Set in an overgrown Soviet-era tank factory, built around verticality, flanking routes, and environmental storytelling.
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Solo
2025
A chaotic close-quarters elimination map inspired by Call of Duty's Shipment and Rust. A believable junkyard in the middle of a bustling city, built from scrap, trenches, and verticality.
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I'm a Game Design senior at Champlain College, focusing on level design — the craft of shaping space to guide, challenge, and surprise players.
I believe the best levels tell a story without a single word of dialogue. A room that tells you exactly who lived there before things went wrong. A hallway that makes you slow down without ever telling you to. These are the moments I design toward.
I've worked in small development teams where every decision matters, and I thrive in collaborative environments where feedback sharpens the work. My coursework and team projects have also given me a broader foundation across game design — systems, UI, and narrative — but level design is where I keep coming back. I'm looking for opportunities to grow as a designer and build alongside people who care about the craft.
Get in touch
Interested in collaborating or have an opportunity? I'd love to hear from you.
A custom level for Ready or Not focused on intense, close-quarters combat within a tightly confined medical facility. The environment creates tension and urgency by limiting player movement and sightlines, forcing careful decision-making at every turn.
The level's setting maintains the game's dark, grounded tone through its layout, props, and atmosphere — creating a high-pressure experience that reflects real-world scenarios. Distributed as a .PAK mod file.
Process & Stills
Development
Final
A rhythm combat game built over a semester at Champlain College's Montreal Study Abroad program. The mighty Goli-riff has challenged you to a battle of musical prowess — dodge his attacks, fight to the beat, and become the champion of genres.
I served as Game Designer on a cross-disciplinary team of eight, contributing to gameplay systems, mechanics, and the overall player experience. Built in Unity and playable in browser.
Team: Jill Chapin · Jonathan Ingles · Mike Levy · Noah Freedley · Scott Ward · Faye Sanders · Nathan Refici · Charlie Anderson
A multiplayer level designed for the control point game mode in the Lyra Starter Game. Set in an overgrown Soviet-era tank factory complex, MP Factory blends high-intensity close-quarters combat with open spaces for maneuvering and flanking.
I chose an asymmetrical layout with a focus on verticality and three distinct control points, each with its own feel while remaining balanced for both teams.
Environmental storytelling was central to the design, inspired by series like Fallout and The Last of Us. Personal items in lockers, sticky notes on desks, and ceiling sections collapsed from years of neglect — small details that make the space feel like it existed long before any player arrived.
Stills
A chaotic close-quarters elimination map built to feel like the Shipment and Rust maps from the Call of Duty franchise. Players have multiple traversal options across varying levels of verticality, centered around a trench system that offers cover and cross-map movement, partially covered from above to limit overhead angles.
The main floor is split into three lanes, with the left and right lanes offering vantage points through added verticality. The layout went through several iterations — the first had no verticality and felt too chaotic, and later versions leaned so heavily on high-resolution textures that performance dropped below 20 FPS. Reducing asset count and texture resolution brought performance back to a playable state.
Visually, the goal was a junkyard believable enough to sit inside a bustling city — bridges, ramps, and cover built entirely from piled junk, with abandoned containers and overgrown grass reinforcing the sense of a space left to decay.
Stills
A custom Ready or Not level set inside a decommissioned Montreal metro station, taken over by a drug organization as their base of operations. The objective is to locate the leader and bring him out alive.
Coming off Urgent Care, I wanted to challenge myself with things I hadn't tried before — custom objectives were at the top of that list, getting NPCs to interact with the world in meaningful ways. It took more time than I budgeted for. Halfway through development, a major game update shipped and broke a significant portion of what I'd built, which meant reducing scope and fixing issues I didn't fully understand at first.
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