Quake: Husks Of The Past

Engine: Quake
Game: Halloween Jam 2 (Quake)
Released: 10/31/2020
Build time: 1 Month (Roughly)
Download Link: https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/hwjam2.html
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This is my submission for the 2019 Halloween Mapping jam for Quake 1, the map is mostly based on the idea of the player having survived a car crash just outside of an isolated farm in the middle of nowhere, and having the player try and figure out what is happening there.

Design wise, it is stylistically based on several notable horror properties, such as Texas Chainsaw and Children of the Cornfield by Steven King. The house itself is a replica of a real and infamous Victorian farmhouse found in Villisca Iowa, though the surrounding environment has significant creative liberties taken. Photos of the original house and the family that owned it are present in the map.

The maps gameplay is relatively flat, but also open. Focusing on giving the player a choice for how they pursue the map, though admittedly given the time crunch and my relative inexperience at the time of making it meant that some particular routes were just better than others. The end of the map opens into an arena fight, which perhaps could also been better handled in hindsight.

However, for a map made in about a month, it overall turned out rather well, and little additional interactions that the player can do in the map certainly gave the map a nice little touch of realism and chaos.