Concept for tutorial zones i may create

I decided to quickly draw out the tutorial zone, both indoor and outdoors. The base is set up in some old abandoned warehouse, the inside is where you would begin the game and learn the basic controls such as moving around, jumping, crouching climbing ladders etc. This is probably also where you use other features of the game which i will go into more details at a later game (upgrading guns and buying other equipment) as well as where you pick where to travel to next in the main story.

The outdoor area would have a target range set up and access to some basic weapons and would be where you are taught how to hold and fire a gun as its something you've never had to do before but need protection from the bandits you will encounter.

I intend to draw these out much better at a later date and include more detail as i work out what i want to have in these areas as i may make them in unreal if i have time later on in the year as they are fairly small enviroments.

Concept art for the other areas

So I've changed my main char from an ex military type figure to an average guy whos caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and is thrown into this post apocalyptic type game.

The idea is the volcanos thick dense ash has made all the satellites in the world pretty much useless so countrys are cut off from each other, thus they cannot work together to save the planet from mother nature herself. To get over this they need to reconnect and reuse all the old communication systems (internet lines, phone and radio towers etc) pretty much the technology we are still using today.

The main character you play is an engineer with an average 9-5 job who is approached and hired by the Mercury corporation who is a team of lead engineers who have all the blueprints and scans which pinpoint how the old technology exactly works and where the main systems are throughout the planet. Your task is to be sent around the planet and reestablish communcation via these methods despite you never having done anything like this before (Half Life style)

As i was going to create the London area in unreal i still wanted to develop concept art for the other enviroments you would visit throughout Tephra so i have made one quite detailed image which would be somewhere in North America close to where the volcano had erupted.

So this would explain the fires around, however this would also be from the bandits who are taking advantage of the situation and looting what they can.
This picture took me days so although i wanted to do at least one for each zone its going to be a while before i attempt another area.