Forerunner City

Concept repris dans Halo Legends : Origines.

Forerunner City (parfois appelé The Lost City d'après le nom d'un album de screenshots) est un niveau abandonné de Halo 3, initialement conçu par Paul Russel. Le niveau contenait des habitations forerunner, et Russel cherchait à raconter la vie de tous les jours des Forerunners à travers son architecture.^[1] Vic DeLeon travailla sur les détails de l'environnement en 2005,^[2] avant que le niveau ne soit abandonné. Selon Russel, le niveau était devenu trop vaste,^[3] et une interview attribuée au level designer Dan Miller indique que Bungie considérait que le niveau révélait trop de détails autour des Forerunners.^[4]

Dans les outils de mod de Halo : The Master Chief Collection, on trouve le nom de niveau 100_forecity, qui possède le même numéro que le niveau L'Alliance Covenante, désigné 100_citadel. On trouve également un autre nom de niveau inutilisé appelé 090_alpine, donc le numéro suggère qu'il devait se trouver avant 100_forecity ou 100_citadel. L'Alliance Covenante possédant à la fois des paysages alpins et des structures forerunner, il est supposé qu'il s'agit d'une fusion des deux niveaux abandonnés. Cette hypothèse est soutenue par le Dan Miller.^[5]

Certaines formes peuvent être retrouvées dans la Citadelle.

Concepts de Paul Russel.
Concepts de Vic DeLeon.

Sources

↑ Twitter - Paul Russel 1, 2 (Archives), « I had a lot of ideas for the discarded forerunner city. In terms of creating spaces that had cultural function, tried to imply Forerunner daily life through architecture. What their values were. How function and form worked, probably the most interesting thing I took on, because it wasn't just cool shapes with mysterious purpose. Telling a story »
↑ Twitter - Vic DeLeon, « So here's three shots taken in-game wayyy back in 2005 running a version of the #Halo 2.5-3 engine. The idea was to design an abandoned Forerunner "living space" with courtyard, and fallen into disrepair. @Dr_Abominable [Paul Russel] made the original structures and I modified, added entropy. We called it Forerunner Condo. I called it Cuesta Verde phase 4. The fiction behind it was a supposed housing complex for Forerunner scientists living on the ring. Maybe for the Librarian's team? I don't really remember. [...] I spent roughly three weeks working on both this and a test for Tsavo Township (which was put on hold) until I was moved over to making multiplayer maps for the Halo2 DLC. »
↑ Picasa - Paul Russel > Halo3: The Lost City (Archive)
↑ NeoGAF (Archive)
↑ Twitter - Dan Miller, « Alpine and Forerunner City become ‘The Covenant’ if I recall correctly. »

[1] Twitter - Paul Russel 1, 2 (Archives), « I had a lot of ideas for the discarded forerunner city. In terms of creating spaces that had cultural function, tried to imply Forerunner daily life through architecture. What their values were. How function and form worked, probably the most interesting thing I took on, because it wasn't just cool shapes with mysterious purpose. Telling a story »

[2] Twitter - Vic DeLeon, « So here's three shots taken in-game wayyy back in 2005 running a version of the #Halo 2.5-3 engine. The idea was to design an abandoned Forerunner "living space" with courtyard, and fallen into disrepair. @Dr_Abominable [Paul Russel] made the original structures and I modified, added entropy. We called it Forerunner Condo. I called it Cuesta Verde phase 4. The fiction behind it was a supposed housing complex for Forerunner scientists living on the ring. Maybe for the Librarian's team? I don't really remember. [...] I spent roughly three weeks working on both this and a test for Tsavo Township (which was put on hold) until I was moved over to making multiplayer maps for the Halo2 DLC. »

[3] Picasa - Paul Russel > Halo3: The Lost City (Archive)

[4] NeoGAF (Archive)

[5] Twitter - Dan Miller, « Alpine and Forerunner City become ‘The Covenant’ if I recall correctly. »

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