Sandbox Hog the Hill: Skyline

Seaboro Kibbles · 06-16-2009

Brawling around with warthogs is a consistently fun game that has been played for years, and I’m giving this game a good home with my new map, Skyline. It’s got a scoring system. It supports lots of players. It’s got different elevations. It’s got it all.

YouTube - Halo 3 Forges (Ep. 37) "Skyline" (machinima)

Thanks to Game Over Studios for another good video.

Download Game - Hog the Hill
Download Map- SKYLINE
Players Suggested: 2-12

"Three sides, two levels, many vehicles, and endless fun."

I learned from the gameplay of The Hog Hill, Skyline’s predecessor, and put everything I learned into this map. Skyline doesn’t have any walls to park your warthog up against and sit there the whole round, and I added different elevations to make things interesting. Running into vehicles that no one’s using is annoying, so on the three sides of the map, outside the hill, are platforms with an extra hog and two ghosts. Because these platforms are outside the hill there is no point in staying out there and if no one’s using the vehicles there still out of the way.

The game:
Hog the Hill is a King of the hill varient, which awards 10 points for controling the hill, which ends the round. Many warthog war type maps build the arena too low, it takes one second for the score to activate, and some maps are too low, this isn't the case with Skyline. The game actually decreases a players gravity when they're off the hill, making their fall time bigger.

Without further a due, I present to you, a bird’s eye view:

Action Shots!

This is a great game, but it could use much improvement, please leave as much feedback as possible. Thanks!

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blackandblutoo · 06-16-2009

The map looks awsome. From the pictures it looks small for the warthogs to move around.
But thats what makes it fun!
The maps gameplay looks really good and everything.
Although, because of the two levels you essentially could just camp/sit on the top level. Other than that awsome!
9/10

Seaboro Kibbles · 06-16-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackandblutoo

The map looks awsome. From the pictures it looks small for the warthogs to move around.
But thats what makes it fun!
The maps gameplay looks really good and everything.
Although, because of the two levels you essentially could just camp/sit on the top level. Other than that awsome!
9/10

The map is narrow for a reason. I find that with a big wide surface the players are in no threat, which makes the game boring. The top level is very narrow because if you fall off, you'll probably land on the lower level. And I've never had anyone camp/sit on the top level, what do you mean? Great criticism by the way.

Eyeless Sid · 06-16-2009

Hmmm Just the shape is different You never really see multilevel hog wars maps like this. The design is cool and it looks great and after a few games Im still having fun knocking around my friends. King of the hill seems to work well and Im glad you threw it on instead of the classic 1 life gametype. Good work this is a cool map.

Chronic Fate · 06-16-2009

This is an instant classic. Who knew such a simple game could get such good recognition. The arena is considerably small though, but it is not worth a fix since the game is just so fun. Good luck on future maps!

4.5/5

FORGING2PERFEKTION · 06-16-2009

that map looks awsome.
maybe i would delt the warthog and add for example two gooses or something.
btw the interlocking is very good.
so overall nice job.

Seaboro Kibbles · 06-16-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chronic Fate

This is an instant classic. Who knew such a simple game could get such good recognition. The arena is considerably small though, but it is not worth a fix since the game is just so fun. Good luck on future maps!

4.5/5

It looks small, but it's not. There is more than enough room, even when the full 12 players are playing. Thats just me though, i could add on for the next one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FORGING2PERFEKTION

that map looks awsome.
maybe i would delt the warthog and add for example two gooses or something.
btw the interlocking is very good.
so overall nice job.

Mongooses are so lame in this game, well, there more annoying than lame. They can't ram for shit so they just run away. Oh, and they can't even jump the gap where the extra vehicles are, and if i shorten that gap then people could jump over, and that's not kewl. I thought about prowlers, but they're either overpowering, or they fall off too much.

I decided on ghosts because they are like, anti-infantry vehicles in this game. When there are high numbers of people playing, people get stupid for some reason and get out of their vehicles, but also when there are high numbers of people, the ghosts become available, and they splatter the crap out of the walkers. Ghost are also super fun, and can make some crazy jumps, so that is why i chose ghosts.

rewib65 · 06-16-2009

the forging is incredible, its very rare to see this much work go into a simple mini game, but this is a definate download from me. I love the use of the red and blue columns

Arbacca · 06-16-2009

I'm not gonna lie, this looks a little rushed, unless you were going for that lack of symmetry look. Other than that, just a few loose objects.
Anyway, this is amazing. I love the aesthetics. I may actually play a game one it :D
But again, if you decide to revise it, make it a little neater and give that bottom level a more radial, like what you did with the columns on the top level.
I hope the criticism doesn't tell you I don't like this map, because it's amazing.

Dralthi · 06-16-2009

The best part about this map is definitely the aesthetics. The gameplay is fun but not super original. Overall it's about a 3.5/5. Keep up the good work though.