the most fun I've ever had in the series
"Kraken Awakes" is the fourth DLC mission for Sniper Elite 5. Karl has been tasked with infiltrating a Nazi-occupied shipbuilding yard, where he must eliminate the new leader of Project Kraken and destroy the formidable aircraft carrier which is near completion.
Details
My main responsibilities included planning and documentation, enemy encounter design, blocking out, level scripting, technical setup, and optimisation. My particular areas of focus were the aircraft carrier and the central drydock and its supporting areas.
During development I worked closely with the art team on implementing the artpass and to make sure important parts of the design stayed consistent as art came in.
Designing the interior of the aircraft carrier which features in the level was particularly challenging due to Sniper Elite 5's stealth-action gameplay and the need to accommodate its third-person camera. To compensate for this, we iterated on the ship's size, layout, and proportions multiple times during development until landing on a design for the ship which felt impressively large while remaining realistic in scale.