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Pet Collector (Roblox) is a PVP game where up to eight players in a match must protect their own pet, collect coins, and hunt for other players’ pets. It's "hide-and-seek," but you hide your pet instead.​

Role: Game Level Designer
Team: Misfits Gaming Group
Engine: Roblox Studio

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and iterated competitive arenas around one central problem: how to make players encounter one another quickly while giving players carrying vulnerable pets enough space to evade, hide, and recover

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  • Prototyped and tested multiple layout variations to improve encounter dynamics, player readability, and strategic decision-making

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  • Sped up level creation by relying on tools for blocking out levels, such as Archimedes and GapFill

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  • Enhanced level mood and readability by set dressing using pre-existing art assets and performing lighting passes

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  • Collaborated with design and engineering to develop and implement gameplay features impacting moment-to-moment play

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  • Partnered with art and QA to scope assets and ensure levels met gameplay, performance, and polish standards

Levels I Designed:
Bridge

Player flow & spatial connectivity:
Designed around motivating players to cross between two functionally different arenas.

Waterpark

Sightlines, pursuit & evasion:
Balanced open sightlines with occlusion to create encounters while giving players opportunities to escape.

Miami Mall

Verticality, traversal & pacing:
Used open sightlines and traversal mechanics to create faster player-to-player interception.

PVP Level Design Goals and Principles

 

My approach to designing Pet Collector's arenas is grounded in three principles of good level design — specifically that level design should be driven by the game's mechanics above all else.

Mechanics-Driven Layout

  • What I did: Built arena layouts around readable sightlines and streamlined traversal.

  • Why: Pacing depends on players finding each other quickly — this directly supports the "hunting" half of the core loop.

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Player-Controlled Risk

  • What I did: Gave players real choices — hunt aggressively, hide defensively, or risk an exposed crossing — instead of one correct path.

  • Why: The same design that lets a cautious player hide safely also gives an aggressive player a genuine risk/reward call to make.

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Efficient, Iterative Build

  • What I did: Iterated quickly on geometry using playtesting feedback, reusing modular assets wherever possible.

  • Why: To keep what worked, cut what didn't, and build without wasting effort re-solving already-solved problems.

 
 

Level review guidelines:
 

  1. Is the level enhancing the pacing of the game by letting players find each other and accomplish their goals, or does the level stall the gameplay?​

  2. Is the level especially playable on mobile devices?​​

  3. Is the level experience distinguishable from other levels already in the game, or does it not stand out?

How to Play​

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  1. Each match consists of 8 rounds lasting 2 minutes.​

  2. Spawn in the level with your pet. Carry your pet with you or hide it somewhere.​

  3. If you hide your pet, you're free to use your weapons on other players' pets. If you carry your pet, you can only run.​

  4. Run around the level collecting coins to bring your score up. Your coins are stored in your pet, like a coin bag.​

  5. Use your weapon to knock coins out of other pets that you find and collect them (like a piñata), raising your score. Players lose coins if their pets are hit.​

  6. If another player attacks your pet with their weapon, your pet will run back to you.​

  7. The player with the most coins collected wins.

 
 
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