1. Once I defined an area to populate. I established the metrics by defining the geometry and meshes I was going to use for this blockout. Using:

*Different shapes, similar scale.

*Offer the player a clear feeling of safeness when required.

*Convey the aesthetic and feeling of the environment.

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2. Define enemies and cover- I wanted to explore stealth, cover, and player paths for Stealth games, so I defined the types of enemies, obstacles for the player and how to use the level to player's advantage in this situation.

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*Enemies will be guarding specific sections.

*Enemies will be alerted by sounds, player in sight, and world alterations.

*The player will have safe areas to be able to plan how to move around.

*The player will have enough cover to move around, with risky areas where timing and strategy will be a must.

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3. Outdoors & Verticality - I wanted to explore verticality and the development of levels in outdoors instead of structures and rooms, so I took as a reference the image on the right, which is a picture of what I see in front of my desk, as an starting point to create documentation, and from there start blocking out an outdoors section for the level, starting as a Parking Lot with a near by abandoned building used for storage, and close a park with a waterfall hiding a secret entrance (Classic).

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For this area  I wanted to give room to the player for exploration, so I focused this area on creating a more interesting path with variations, alternative paths, sightseeing,  and environment interaction instead.