Toby McCall:: Portfolio

Highlights:

Beautiful, remote island environment
Custom water texture
Fast-paced, fun gameplay

Tasks:

All Level Design and Scripting
Created an immersive island setting
Developed a custom ocean water texture and post-processing effect
Added new gameplay to the classic DM17 Quake map

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Description:

The Paradise Lost map is a short revision of the original Quake DM-17 map. I wanted to design something bright and open, perhaps because I was homesick for Florida beaches. I concepted a Spanish-type fort on an island surrounded by bright blue ocean water. I feel the final map successfully realized that concept. The gameplay for this map is strictly defined by the original DM-17 map, though I did add additional sniper posts.

I include this map in my portfolio not because it's an example of unique gameplay, but because I feel its a good example of my desire to build believable, interesting game spaces. Playtesters commented that they spent as much or more time simply exploring the space as they did competing against each other. In fact, I recorded quite few players just standing on the beach listing to the waves and looking out over the water.