CTF UPBG Rock'em Sock'em FNB

CTF UPBG Rock'em Sock'em FNB

UT CTF - Large, 10-20 players. Board Game Plastic Toy WOOT! Released July 2007.

This map was made for the July 2007 Unreal Playground BOARD GAME (UPBG) mapping contest. I asked the UP admins if I could make Rock-Em-Sock-EM, which wasn't in the original list of board games. I'd had the game when I was a kid, and thought it would be fun to make. They said yes, and so I got busy trying to remember how the hell it was put together!

After a few cracks at getting started i just grabbed some pix off the web and used those as a guide. The underneath part of the boxing ring is completely made up, but i think it might have looked something like that :P The aim in this design was to try and keep the polys and nodes down so it could be played on-line without problems, so it was tested on server.

It is pretty easy to beat the bots, even at high settings, but with people it would be much harder. As always, sniping campers who like to sit up on the higher perches will pay the price in lost framerate - there's 600 or more polys visible from the upper rope corners!

There were three versions of the map, in succession, the first two served more as beta maps, the third fixed a lot of bugs.

At the time, I had a P4, and the map ran fine for me, but might have been a bit hard on older machines. Pretty safe to say that on current hardware there are no performance issues at all. Altogether, the RockEMSockEm project took around 21 hours to complete. Maybe 10 hours for the map and bots and the rest of the time spent on artwork and frigging around with the robots as movers which did not work out and was a major disappointment (this is why they are lying down, rather than standing up punching each other).

Many thanks to Switch' and SabbathCat for swJumpPad; Bot_40 for the SmartAltPath actor; King Mango for the UP Suess colour textures; and big thanks to the admins at Unreal Playground for holding the Board Games contest! It is nice to make something simpler than that dog-damned Orions Curse every once in a while :D Music is Run from the game Unreal Tournament.