Rocket Arena

RocketArena is a Rocket League-inspired car football game, written from scratch in Unreal Engine 5 C++ as the capstone of a eight-week Unreal program from GameDev.tv. 

What is in this build

• Match. A free-play match on the arena: kickoff count-in, boost pads, goals with a slow-motion replay, a match clock and full time. No opponent.
• Training. A set of timed drills: the ball is launched, you score it before the clock runs out, and a scorecard tallies the run.

What the car does

• Drives with a throttle curve, a brake, steering and a powerslide, and it feels a bit like in Rocket League :)
• Jumps, double jumps and dodges in any direction, with flip cancel.
• Flies with Rocket League like air-control including boost.
• Drives on walls and the ceiling, and rounds the arena corners without falling off.
• Hits the ball with a shot that scales with closing speed, boost and where on the car it lands.

Controls

Keyboard or Xbox-layout gamepad.

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad
Throttle, brake, reverse	W / S	RT / LT
Steer; yaw in the air; roll with air roll held	A / D	Left stick
Air pitch	Arrow up / down	Left stick
Jump; again within 1.5 s for a double jump or, with a direction held, a dodge	Space	A
Boost	Shift	B
Powerslide	Ctrl	X
Air roll modifier	Alt	LB
Toggle ball cam	Q	Y
Back to the menu; on the menu, quit	Esc	keyboard only

Source Code

The C++ code (without the assets) can be found at https://github.com/gallmerci/rocket-arena

Credits

• Car: Octane - Rocket League Car by Jako, CC BY 4.0
• Ball: Ball - Rocket League by Jako, CC BY 4.0
• Stadium and goals: built myself for this project
• Sounds: generated with ElevenLabs
• Font: Michroma, SIL Open Font License 1.1

Rocket League is a trademark of Psyonix LLC. RocketArena is an unaffiliated study of its car physics, built from publicly documented figures. It is not endorsed by or connected to Psyonix or Epic Games.