Undermountain Level 1 Recreation for Project Ultradeep
Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 00:00 AM
This is Project Ultradeep, which is a recreation of the mega-dungeon called Undermountain underneath the city of Waterdeep on the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms (in Dungeons & Dragons). I hope to release this as a walkable experience when it has all the floors, hopefully to aid in visualization for those interested in exploring the space.
I consider Undermountain to be one of the most interesting dungeons ever created in a fantasy series, so i'm studying it to figure out what makes a good dungeon, so i can move forward in my main projects with the assets, scripts, and knowledge I created, to make more interesting underground areas. I call this part of development "DungeonDev," and it involves studying other dungeons as well, such as those from Ultima and Zelda games. I'd like to play through Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 as well if I can handle it. Below are some screen grabs from my gamedev video shown above.
A vast dungeon with many hallways and rooms shown in simple retro computer graphics style.
Top-down view of Level 1 of Undermountain with a map layout that may be familiar to those who have played The Ruins of Undermountain or the Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaigns.
A much higher view of Level 1 of the dungeon.
The corridors and rooms shown from a 1st person perspective.
