Ori and blind forest in Unity and Dark Souls

Great artwork and gameplay.
I would like to design a game similar to Dark souls but it would be platformer like Ori.
Is Ori 2d or 3d game ?

How to design connected levels and world as in Dark Souls ?

 

Pen and (graph) paper. You don't even need to be drawing maps, just vague graphs with nodes being levels and edges being connections. Once you've got level concepts, you could probably move to spatial mock-ups using simple colored primitives to illustrate scale and placement.

The real crux is how good of a world builder and a level designer you are.

 

When I create multiple levels, are they easily combined in Unity ?

Did you saw screens of Ori ?
I have questions ? Are textures hand drawn matte paintings ?
If so, could it be done in gimp and blender?

And a questions for Unity: how does Unity manage postprocessing ?
In this game we have :. soft colored bloom and haze look.

 

@satur9 - do you have design questions? This is the design forum. Coding questions, art, post processing, bloom, combining levels - all of these questions belong in other forums.

Hint - BUILDING GAMES IS HARD! You may consider beginning with the SIMPLEST possible thing - cut 90% of that, and 90% of that, and you're almost in the right realm.

Gigi