Position: Individual Project

Engine: Bethesda’s Creation Kit

Development Time: 32 weeks - 300 hours

Synopsis: This thesis aims to create and showcase a best practices list for not only designing effective worlds, but how to effectively hint at and allow players opportunities to imagine more depth to the world than there really might be.

Ultimately, both the physical space and narrative history of a level should appear to extend beyond the world that the player can interact with and experience.

Overview

The artifact is a standalone single player mod for Fallout 4 aimed at conveying the sense of a larger world to players.

In the mod, players will travel upwards through a massive yet abandoned facility. This facility was once the home to many dark experiments where researchers, supported by military funding, attempted to irradiate human subjects to create beings of immeasurable power.

200 years later, in the modern day, players travel through the ruins of this facility and must confront the remains of a rogue branch of the brotherhood who have attempted to restore and re-weaponize these dark experiments.