Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino

Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino
Name	Cedric Fiorentino
Laboral info
Worked at	Epic Games
Occupation	Level designer
Worked in	Unreal Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2003 Unreal Tournament 2004 Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict Unreal Tournament 3

Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino (born December 15, 1975) is a former level designer for Epic Games. During a 10-year period, he made several well-known maps, including CTF-Face and the Inoxx Pack for Unreal Tournament. Inoxx and Epic Games have since parted ways, leaving the company in August 2005.

Bio

Cedric studied math in Montpellier, France before joining Epic Games (then Epic MegaGames) in 1995. He was hired after sending a floppy disk of Epic Pinball animations to Tim Sweeney.

"I got the game from a floppy in a magazine. I opened the read.me file and saw a message from Tim Sweeney asking for people to submit their artwork. I had a few renderings and animations I did in 3D Studio at the time. I put those on a floppy and sent it to the address."

– Cedric Fiorentino

Fiorentino got a reply from Sweeney a few weeks later, inviting him to the Epic's US studio. He first worked on Extreme Pinball 2 before being assigned to the Unreal development team. While being amazed at the amount of talent and the wildly different yet complementative points of view found at the company, working at a distance proved to be a challenge on its own, especially with the network connections at that time. So, after the development of Unreal, he moved to Waterloo, Canada, and later to Epic's headquarters on Raleigh, North Carolina, during the development of Unreal Tournament.

Other titles Cedric has worked on during his time at Epic include Unreal Tournament 2003 & 2004, Unreal Championship 2, Unreal Tournament 3, and Gears of War. Cedric and Epic Games parted ways in August 2005. Cedric has since served as a consultant for Webzen (working on Huxley) and Arkane Studios, as well as working on companies such as Ubisoft and LucasArts. He currently works as creative director in Virtuos Games, a company from Singapore.

List of Contributions

Unreal

Terraniux Underground Terraniux Mothership Basement Mothership Lab Mothership Core	Skaarj Generator Illumination The Darkening The Source Antechamber Ending Sequence

In addition, he also made the cut maps Nexus, Nexus End, Cryox and DmSplash.

Unreal Tournament

Official releases

Stock maps: CTF-Face DM-Fetid DM-HyperBlast (w/Pancho Eekels) DM-Phobos DM-Pyramid DOM-MetalDream Inoxx Pack maps: CTF-Face][ CTF-High CTF-Kosov CTF-Nucleus DM-Crane DM-SpaceNoxx	Bonus Pack 4 maps: CTF-Face-SE Rocket Arena: UT maps: RA-Inoxx Console exclusive maps: DM-BlockParty DM-Hood DM-Megaplex DM-Singularity DM-StationControl DOM-Hood Semi-official releases: DM-Gen][ (Ownage map)

It's worth noting that Block Party, Megaplex, Singularity and StationControl are all arenas from RA-Inoxx, with only "Heavy Water" being left out. He also made the cut console map CTF-Fortress.

Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal Tournament 2004

CTF-Face3 DM-Phobos2

Other

His map Facing Worlds was also remade for Unreal Tournament 3 and Unreal Tournament 4 as CTF-FacingWorlds and CTF-Face (previously CTF-FaceTest), while DM-Pyramid and DM-BlockParty were remade in Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict as DM-Legacy and DM-AcidRain. In all cases, while the designs were his own, all maps in UC2 and UT3 and the UT4 version of CTF-Face are all credited to the entirety of Epic Games. Also the UT3 map CTF-Searchlight from the Bonus Pack 1 was based on a cut map of his, CTF-Fortress.

External links and references

• LinkedIn profile of Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino