Player Replication in Gator Hucker Epic Online Services Unique Server Interaction As you may already know from other blogs, our game is an eight-person gator brawler networked through Epic Online Services (EOS), a program to host online multiplayer straight through Epic Games. This is immensely helpful for several reasons, the main one being a, relatively quick, jumpstart into online multiplayer and interactions but it also brought with It a very unique set of troubles. The d

Reverse Engineering Our Kit of Architectural Parts Pie. No, not pumpkin pie. Not apple pie. We were concerned with the shape. A pie is a circle. You can slice up a pie, swap the pieces, and still have a full circle. Or at least until someone eats a slice. Each slice starts at the origin, in the center of the pie, and increases in surface area as you move toward the crust. Gator Hucker followed these basic principles to develop the prototype arena toolkit, seen below. Gator Hu

Designing Gator Hucker's Environment When designing an arena for a fast-paced brawler like Gator Hucker, it’s not just about making things look cool-- it's also about making it work for the players. Every wall, ramp, ledge, and obstacle influences how the players navigate the environment and fight. Here's how we create an arena that's fun to play in with our fast-paced, chaotic gameplay! Designing the Arena When first designing potential maps for the game, we modeled block o