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

Building Gator Hucker's Core Mechanics In Gator Hucker, players control a super-powered alien alligator, violently launched into a gladiatorial arena by a cybernetically enhanced gorilla. Matches begin mid-air, and if you crash down on another player, they don’t get back up. Instant elimination. Welcome to the arena. At first glance, Gator Hucker resembles a hero shooter; distinct abilities, fast paced, and high mobility combat. But its defining system is form switching. Pla

Making Chaos Readable in Gator Hucker Gator Hucker at the December 2025 Stout Game Expo Gator Hucker is a third-person multiplayer arena brawler where you play as a super-powered alien alligator who has been thrown—literally—into a gladiatorial arena by a cybernetically enhanced gorilla. Matches start with players getting hucked into the arena from the sky, and if you land directly on another player, they’re instantly dead. That’s the tone we’re working with. From there, ev