Calvin Coolidge Institute (Fallout 4 Mod)
Description
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Role-Playing Game
Mod Length: 15-25 minutes (to explore and potentially loot everything)
Team Size: 1
Honors: Featured on Bethesda.net in October 2021 (https://bethesda.net/en/article/5dDRE3iJmKNSIMROmHgbB4/fallout-4-october-featured-mods-2021)
Skills I Used: Level Design · Feedback Implementation · Writing · Environmental Storytelling · Time Management · Playtesting · Scripting
Programs I Used: Bethesda Creation Kit · Microsoft Office
Responsibilities:
Crafted a document detailing the location’s makeup and story. I was inspired by the layout of my former elementary school and by my then-recent playthrough of the video game Get Even (2017).
Identified the props and NPCs that would bring the darkly humorous brand of spatial storytelling to life.
Used the Creation Kit to lay out interiors and fill them out with items and characters.
Applied navmesh and lighting effects that determined where NPCs could go and how the chilling atmosphere would be conveyed.
Playtested the level by installing it in the Fallout 4 base game.
Published the level on Nexus Mods and Bethesda.net.
Used player feedback to make updates that addressed performance and lighting issues.
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Game Description:
Originally designed as an education center for the Overseers before the Great War decimated the Commonwealth, the Calvin Coolidge Institute is now a husk of its former self.
The souls unlucky enough to still be inside when the bombs dropped began losing their sanity by distracting themselves with morbid endeavors and odd interests that eventually resulted in everyone buying the farm.
Raiders now roam the underground establishment and have taken an affinity to some of the practices the would-be Overseers engaged in.
It seemed as though the Coolidge Institute would never see another turn of events given its secrecy… until the Sole Survivor came.
Role
Writer, level designer, scripter
Date
01/27/2018
Type
Level for Fallout 4
Alternate PC Link
XB1 Version
PS4 Version
Youtube Showcase
Quest Document URL
www.dropbox.com/s/weco9ex600fml5j/Calvin%20Coolidge%20Institute%20Quest%20Idea.docx?dl=0
Location Description
www.dropbox.com/s/qfarxea44cozzf2/Coolidge%20Institute%20Description.docx?dl=0