[Project Brazil] Progress Goal Met for March, Already news

Vault 18 is Officially 100% done with level design! We're now focusing all our efforts on scripts, writing dialogue, NPC faces & armours, factions, voice acting, routines, and implementation.

This is all of the independent levels copied into one cell, and assembled as it would be if it were all one big level, seen from a side angle, North to South:

This map doesn't cover the areas you will see in the "Chapter 1" Version of Vault 18. Those are a surprise. ;) This is Vault 18 during the Prequel, before any of the major changes and damage occur that really messes up this better life underground.

Starting from the top:

1. Vault 18 Cave Entrance & Vault Door
2. Robotics & Maintenance Lab + Upper Vault Storage
3. Upper Level Cistern and Water Chip Filter Room
4. Airlock & Upper Air Conditioning Intake Filter Room
5. Elevator Top & Staircase Exit - Main Entrance Corridor
6. Elevator & Staircase Shaft
7. Elevator Base & Staircase Entrance
8. Main Reactors, Power Control & Cooling
9. Hydroponics & G.E.C.K. Research Wing
10. Computer Lab
11. "Upper" Apartments (Middle Class Living)
12. Lower Vault Storage Area
13. "Lower" Apartments (Upper Class Living & the Player's Apartments)
14. Vault 18 Gymnasium
15. Coach Bragg's Office
16. Small Clinic & Infirmary
17. Security & Weapons Locker
18. Vault 18 Core Atrium
- 3 sets of Apartment Hallways
- 3 Big Atriums
- 3 Lounges
- 3 Bathrooms
- Game Room
- Playground
- Main Cafeteria
- Administration Center
- Operations
- Overseer's Office
- Jail
- Movie Theatre

Vault 18 was created with 3 core values in mind:

1. That it be a functional, livable place
2. That it show the character of the story
3. That it be an epic & memorable location

Vault 18 is a place where 200 people can live, self-sufficiently, for a little more than 350 years. When Turgidson says to the President in Dr.Stangelove, "We must close the Mineshaft Gap," he was thinking of this beast. XD

The original base of Vault 18 was actually Vault 88 from Cambragol, uploaded as a modder's resource a year or two ago. With permission, we've adapted it over time until nearly every part of the vault has been transformed except for the apartments, core, and a segment of the entrance to fit our story. ^_^ now "done" is starting to become a word you can use to describe Vault 18.

You can read all about the extensive history of Vault 18, its legends and construction, here in our Development bible:

Now that we have all of our level design and implementation finished, we are ready to seriously focus all efforts on getting ready for our demo's release. The Demo will be a limited run through, showing off our New Start, Voice Acting, Story and Characters, all set in Vault 18.

I'm debating whether that would be frustrating to players, since there is so much more to do in Project Brazil outside the vault in Black Bear... but, then again, Vault 18 is pretty huge. It could have an entire game in there, just by itself. ;)

Sound off in the comments and let me know what you think

Cheers!

Brandan Lee Pittman
Project Leader