New World Aeternum, Fort Barnacle / Rothoard Vault Level Art

These levels are part of a collaboration with Amazon Games and Lost Boys Interactive. I joined the Lost Boys co-dev team for New World from January 2024 to September 2024. Lost Boys had the opportunity to update the Cutlass Keys area of the map for the New World Aeternum release. These POI's were part of previous New World updates. The main fort structures and the cave structure were already established when I took the maps over. As a world builder, my responsibility was to refine the player path, adjust the layout of the building structures, terrain sculpting, add set dressing according to the updated art direction, and optimization tasks such as adding foliage blocking volumes, collision tagging, and edits to maintain draw call limitations and hit framerate. All of my work was done within the New World game engine (a unique version of Lumberyard).

Art Director - Michal Dunnam
https://www.artstation.com/mdunnam
Environment Art Lead - Peter Hartman
https://www.artstation.com/peterhartmann
Lighting Artist - Ethan Reeds
https://www.artstation.com/ethanreeds9