Survivor Island


DM-Survivor Island, ©2023 by Jeff Martin
jm@islandalien.com
www.islandalien.com/unreal

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Native seafarers don't like this place. They call it "La Isla de Ocho Muertes". The island of 8 deaths.

A deserted tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific and the abandoned outpost of what once was a BP survey team that went missing some time back in the 1940's. Their bodies were never found.

This map contains at least one of each weapon and a number of Death Traps; Eight fiendish devices of lethal cunning. Can you find them all? Proceed with caution!


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Tiki Torches help by providing clues and information about the island.
1). Tiger Pit
2). Thorgrim's sling.
3). Preferred by cannibals, head hunters and witch doctors. A cauldron of boiling oil.
4). A giant rolling boulder.
5). Hammers.
6). Spiked walls.
7). Lava pool.
8). Rickety old rope bridge precariously suspended above a pit of molten lava.
This map also uses a design similar to a couple of other maps I made called DM-Kor and DM-Jurassic Park. A dense jungle set among a landscape of rolling hills, except instead of using the terrain editor on this one, I just kludged together two cones and decorated it with oversized plant and tree actors. A simple map. The canopy is basically just a sphere that has been flattened, stretched and textured with the masked leaves in GenFX.utx. It works pretty well and covers a lot of area using a minimal number of polys.

There is a ground-level-fog 2D sheet included in this map. I like it both with and without the ground level fog, however anyone can decide to put it back in or not.

Thanks to "Tazerr" (www.btinternet.com/~zeroville/) and his excellent "DM-PyreIsland.unr" map for the inspiration and the idea of including an Earthquake event. I didn't actually use it (because it just didn't feel right) but it's there in the spare parts room if you need it.

Pick up locations (the treasures chests) are influenced from the video game “Medi Evil” which is still one of the coolest video games ever. Thanks Paul Donovan for the adventures.

As a shout out to fellow mappers, I'm releasing this map to the public domain. Anyone is invited to edit this map provided you do not alter or delete the author's name or contact information in the LevelInfo properties or the read-me.txt file. If you want to add your own notes about this map please include them in a separate file. Anything else you want to add is not only fine by me, but is encouraged.

Note: The challenge of this map is to keep it a stand-alone 100% pure Unreal Tournament file and USE ONLY DEFAULT TEXTURES AND AUDIO FILES. Please don't make it dependent on any 3rd party textures, audio, mods or patches.

Suggested points of interest that might be added.


- A WWII Japanese sniper's den. The one where the soldier didn't know the war was is over.
- Tom Hank's cave from the movie Castaway
- Doctor Mareau's secret laboratory.
- The flying Tiki head from Zardoz.

Enjoy, have fun and may the best player survive.

Jeff.
jm@islandalien.com
www.islandalien.com/unreal