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So basically, nobody ever could have ever ever ever gotten that ever. And if they did, they would have no idea what kind of game it is.

Wow, I think they got everyone there.

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And the Rick Roll 'hint' was nothing either...but, what about the binary pyramid shape that people decoded out of the actually hint? :yikes:

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For the record... I did kinda predict pyramids when I thought there would be a return of the tetras from 2005. On the other hand, I was totally wrong.

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Read: The GDC got lazy.


...not that we can really complain about the GDC not taking seriously something that has the express purpose of not being serious.

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You have just figured out the formula behind game hints.

Jason

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Geez, if the GDC put that much effort into creative game hints, no wonder the last two games have been so great.

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Great Seal-->pyramid was pretty reasonable. People got that, but were thinking 2005; not sure if anyone went to climbing. But yeah, dinner-->discs wasn't going to happen with any confidence.

Generally, there's one thing in the year's hints (usually combined) that leads with reasonable confidence to something that could be useful if one were willing to use it: 2012 shooting, arm/tubes, soccer ball, the-year-we-don't-talk-about, IR sensor (which actually was intentionally useful) AND racing...


Thanks for asking, Rachel!

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Also a major aspect with 2012 was the BOM, which included the IR sensors used for scoring, so "high speed single object automated scoring" was predicted.


Then there was the red herring this year of the IR sensor FIRST choice...

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Yes, that's how the referenced "shooting" conclusion from 2012 came about. We didn't know what we were shooting, but it was pretty clear teleop would be a single-file shot sort of deal.

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If that wasn't the most ambiguous thing I don't know what is.

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Okay, you got me. What was the explanation of that?

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one of the names of that fish was a moonfish and the game was lunacy. also the floor was slick like a fish

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One of the names of the Opah (the fish pictured) is a Moonfish.

I seriously thought it was kind of ridiculous when people mentioned the first line was a reference to Seal. Guess I was wrong.