WILDER
Game concept set in future Appalachia
Final Year Graduate Architecture Studio | Taught by: James R. Halliwell | Fall 2023
In the year 2123…The Appalachian region endures resource extraction at any cost and total industrial domination of the landscape, leaving a scarred and barren world in the harvest’s wake.
Find wild friends and uncover the past
Progress through 6 immersive levels
Enter The Mine and discover why humans abandoned the area…
What secrets lay hidden beneath the surface?
Level 5 - Final Boss Encounter
Boss: Combined Resource Center (CRC)
Player emerges from The Mine to see an industrially-dominated landscape, stripped of all natural resources and heavily polluted. The monumental CRC is abandoned, yet still pollutes the area... Can you shut it down? Will that be enough to save The Plateau?
Through the eyes of wildlife, explore this new world and discover its disastrous story.