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Portfolio · Game & Level Design · Sigma Edition

Hi, I'm Steven
Labrute.

I design games for

real men.
Show me the manly stuff
The Gigachad meme: a black-and-white portrait of a chiseled, bearded man
fig. 1 · the target audience
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Design philosophy

The virgin linear level vs the chad immersive sim.

The virgin linear level

  • One path. Cries if you leave it.
  • Yellow paint on every ledge
  • Tutorial pop-up every 5 seconds
  • Locked door? Go fetch THE key.
  • A cutscene tells you how to feel

The chad immersive sim

  • Every lock has two keys
  • Lets you throw a kettlebell through the dome
  • Teaches with a sauna dial, not a pop-up
  • Enemies respawn? Reprogram the respawn.
  • Trusts the player. Like a man.
Projects

Pick your workout.

Only the most hardcore, testosterone-fuelled design work.

SKIN DEEPCustom mission

BeautySleep

Space pirates hijacked a luxury spa ship.
You're barefoot. Save the cats.

Deploy
DOCK LINEN STORE STAFF SPINE WELCOME HALL RESTROOMS DETOX BAR VANITY HALL THERMAL CLINIC LAGOON DOME SOLARIUM MASSAGE LOTUS ATRIUM
THE SHIP · 1/3

You wake up in a linen closet.

Pirates took the spa. Five cats are caged. You're barefoot.

THE SHIP · 2/3

A ring of rooms around a locked Clinic.

Every pirate you take down floats back there to regrow.

THE SHIP · 3/3

And one very breakable dome.

One cracked panel. One big decision.

The twist

Pirates don't stay down.

Take the Clinic, and you choose what respawns.

BIO-SCULPTOR DING!
The set piece

Drain it, or break it?

A cat is stuck at the bottom of the pool. Your call.

glug… glug…
Checkout

That's Beauty Sleep.

Maps, encounters, pacing and scope are in the full doc.

CHADS & DRAGONSTabletop RPG · One-shot

The IronTemple

A tabletop RPG where the only thing
that can kill you is self-doubt.

Roll initiative
Core rule

Any 6 wins. Flex harder for more dice.

Each Bravado die is one more epic detail in your story. Bravado 1s backfire.

STAT 2
BRAVADO 0
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No hit points

Only self-doubt can kill you.

DOUBT

The one-shot

A haunted gym.

Five rooms, 90 minutes. Each room teaches one rule.

SECRET STEAM VENT 01Front Desk 02Locker Room of Lost Souls 03Treadmill of Eternity 04Squat Rack Throne 05Protein Shrine ENTRANCE ↑
GG

That's Chads & Dragons.

Full rules, five archetypes, the boss and the whole one-shot are in the rulebook.