Nature Reserve

(Last Of Us Level Prototype)

Nature Reserve is a personal project I developed with the goal of creating a level based on the game 'The Last of Us'. I set out to create a location unique to the game, narratively one based in a nature reserve for various plants that was once a safe haven, now filled with clickers and the infected.

Key Points:

This is the former entrance to the Nature Reserve, that was taken over by an enemy group of survivors, now destroyed by a group of infected.
Lots of unique cover opportunities here, from the tall and short grass, to stands equipped with supplies, and even cages where unfortunate captives had nowhere to run when infected came.
The dark/light shades of green represent tall and short grass that player can hide in through crouching and crawling.
Objects in blue are cover points for the player.
Objects in purple contain ammo and supplies.
Objects in orange are points of interest to the player that triggers lines of dialogue.

Key Points:

This is the interior of the entrance lobby to the Nature Reserve. Enemy survivors lived in this building and tried to board it all up when the infected came.
Player has to crawl and crouch through this building infested with Clickers and Infected.
In order to reach the fire exit on a collapsed upper floor, the player much find the ladder amongst the clickers and set it up to climb up there.
Enemies in red are the Infected.
Enemies in green are Clickers.
Final establishing shot of two large dome biomes in the Nature Reserve, with a flock of birds flying out of the larger one to indicate to the player to make their way there.