Frostbite is a Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 custom zombies map project made for the YouAlwaysWin 2017 Christmas mapping competition. Under this competition we had some constraints: the map had to be Christmas-themed, and more importantly we only had 2 months to make it!
Thankfully I wasn't alone. I had a skilled mapper and a custom modeler on my team. The design of the map however, was largely my own. The map is a darker take on Christmas, and has the players isolated on a mysterious island in the North Pole, with only a strange house on it. My favorite artistic contributions I did had to be the musical stings and round change sounds I added.
I did my best to add lots of custom features to shake up the tradional zombies formula. For one, instead of a power switch, you power the perk machines by filling present boxes with souls. Each box requires more souls than the last, and it forces you to think about what needs power first. To shake up late game gameplay as well, we have special perk freeze rounds where players lose perk abilities for a round and have to survive in a much more vulnerable state.
With a custom frost boss zombie, a special freeze mechanic where you can "shatter" zombies, a new perk machine, and a variety of achievements and easter eggs, I was proud with how much new content we were able to squeeze into the map in only 2 months.
