Modding

1st Floor Layout

2nd & 3rd Floor Layout

All levels together with expected player pathings to key elements of the map

Easter Egg Design

For the easter egg design I wanted to create a fun approachable easter egg that had a fun story behind it. Having spent hours looking at other map easter eggs and the official treyarch easter eggs. It made sense to incorporate puzzle steps that encouraged exploration but not try to hide things to much so that a player would want to use a cheat sheet.

I quickly crafted a story to develop the easter egg around:

"An old abandoned college that has been turned into a hidden research facility of element 115 located in Ireland. The college was forced closed 60 years ago due to a series of unsolved murders and has been shut to the public ever since. It has been haunted ever since and the spirit that haunts the building was able to absorb some power from the element 115 on site since the hidden research has begun."

"Now an outbreak has taken place placing the building on lockdown, and the player/players take on the role of local authorities who are investigating local calls of disstressing sounds from the building. Unfortunately once they get inside they become locked in and must restore power to the building in order to escape. But as they explore they realise what has been going on and feel the need to step up and protect their town by putting a stop to failed research taken place leading to a zombie outbreak."

"Our player must fend for their lives as they work alongside now dead lead researcher via old radios, to put the evil spirit to rest so that they cannot continue to exploit the element 115 on site any further. But can this researcher really be trusted..."

Quick Note: All Steps will include some form of breadcrumbs that will lead the players in the right direction so they never feel lost. This helps ensure steady progress and minimal frustration.

Step One: Restore power and link the mainframe.

Most zombies players will know these steps from infamous maps in the past, however I will place the first radio in the spawn room to confirm that this is the players first objective. 

Step Two: Link Symbols to Numbers for the head office keycode.

Around the map in various lecture rooms there will be whiteboards that will have a symbol assigned to a number. The player will have been exposed to these symbols from exploring the map but also from the teleporter step previously. Each teleported will be numbered similar to the mood board above for the player to derive the order from. Once the player has the symbol code and the order to put it in, They can enter the keycode the the command room located on the third floor section of the map.

Incase the player gets confused there will be a radio located outside this door that only spawns/becomes activatable once the 3 teleporters are linked.

Step Three: Soul Boxes, Kill zombies around specifc items around the map to collect their souls to power the device in the command room

Step Four: Lights Out After the previous step the lights go out and the power is gone. You must re-plug in the teleporters to restore the power... but who plugged them out?

Step Five: Lure her away with a lullaby. Around the map there are lockboxes that contain a piano key. shooting them now makes them obtainable. There is a grand piano located on the second floor that you must fix. Upon fixing it the piano will play her favourite song allowing you to reaccess the command room.

Step Six: Capture her victims souls return to the graveyard with the gersh devices and throw them at the tombstones.

Step Seven: Who's evil after all?, Once you return from the last graveyard, you no longer return to the map as normal. Instead you return to a new location. In this area you realise the twist of the story and that you've been directed falsly this whole time by the lead researcher.

Step Eight: Divert The power In this step the player realises that the evil lady haunting the building was trying to help this whole time. When they unplugged the teleporters is was because they were trying to divert power into the secret power supply. The player must return to the teleporters and unplug them again diverting the power. This leads the player into the final step.