Kartago was my senior project from College For Creative Studies (CCS). Challenging myself, I decided to create a larger environment that was set outside. Rio in South America was my reference and the focus of my research as the inspiration of Kartago's design. With a large central hub of skyscrapers surrounded by slums and poverty. Early on in my design process of the environment, I knew I wanted to create sections within Kartago to give the player new places to go and feel like each section has its own story to tell. The sections eventually became the; nightclub alley, marketplace, shanties under the railway, and slum hill. Once I had my sections down, I created an ever evolving prop and asset list keeping in mind what was going to go in each section of Kartago. The basic slum buildings on and around the hill were all created mainly using three building models. Using a variety of textures, orienting the model differently, putting different types of doors, windows, and awnings on the buildings, I was able to create unique slum homes through modular creation. Even the bar buildings are all the same models. I had just modeled it so if you turned the building around, I would get a different store front design to work with. Reusing models throughout Kartago while having other props and assets to make them each unique was the key to my success in working on this environment independently.

If you have UDK and would like to explore around Kartago for yourself, click the link below.