How to Design Great Metroidvania Levels | Game Design

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You can use a few simple techniques to design a great metroidvania: draft the map as a bunch of connected rooms; develop the timeline of key events, bosses, and locations; plan player abilities and how they fit into the world; make individual rooms; test, test, test, modify, and test again.