2015 Game
 

So, its kinda early, but I figured I would go ahead and get this thread started. Here's what I think:
2015 Game Ideas

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Water game.
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And I thought the 2014 thread was early.

I still support the water game!

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STAR WARS Pod Race

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Its gotta be flying robots. How else will we have flying cars by the time Marty gets here in his tricked out Delorian?

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Don't forget, new control system.

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Flying robots...

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We've got a winner. GDC, make it so.

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Aaahh, so hard to decide between water game and flying. I kind of want a little bit of both. haha...

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I'm still waiting for scientists to get me that hover board....

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You all just got a new FRC challenge. Whey don't we enjoy this one instead of always speculating what's coming next.

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Sounds like 2008....... but without the hovering and explosions.

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This.

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Like I've posted before, BOOMERANG GAME!

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Seen as half the US is under a foot+ of snow, I feel that most people on CD right now are just trying to pass the time until they can get with their teams and actually build.

Yes there is a game at hand, but that doesn't mean we can actually do much about it yet! :D

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What could actually be cool and doable would be regular FRC robots with flying minibots, so teams can make their own flying contraptions like quad copters for some endgame.

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Quidditch us the only reasonable option.

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Maybe the robots next season should fly...or play baseball...:cool:

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win.

I hope it will be a glow in dark game. That would be so awesome!

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Why does this thread already exist?

I thought last year's staring before Championships was pushing it.

*Sigh*

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Did someone catch the golden snitch?

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How about not just on water... But underwater.

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Because it's fun.

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bots that can cut yews

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Oak-ay, do yew really think that wood be practical? It would be a pine in the ash to design something like that... it could be over-elm-ing.

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I dont think water games take it far enough .... My vote is for non-newtonian fluid game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wxnID2q4A

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It's kind of gum to design something like that. I don't think I pecan. It wouldn't be very poplar either. We may not olive to tell the tale...

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Well I think you've stumped me. Maybe I'll think of more later though. maybe I should branch out...

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Do you need it to be different? It could be Star Wars pod race style, except that everybody's flying over water. So if you fall into the water, you die.

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I love it when people spruce up their posts with puns.

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Does anyone know what gear we need to get for the underwater robot?

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I think it's this one.... could change though.

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Quodpot?

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If you abbreviate all of the games,

MC RR TP RR HH TT LL DT COF DD SA ZZ SA FFRTB TP AH RR FO L B L M RR UA AA

If you take the FIRST letter of all of these games you get MRTRHTLDCDSZSFTARFLBLMRUA

If we take away some letters...

SFTARFL

TAR

TAR is going to be the surface for the 2015 game.

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GG sir. By law of the internet, I watched the full song. GG.

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That is an awkwardly high resolution picture of a gear.

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I'm a fan of the Battle Bots...:cool:

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The holes in that gear look like Logomotion tubes... maybe that's how we have to float?

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Ladies, Gentlemen, and Robots, FRC's 2015 game, Arial Assault! Played with standard dodge balls....

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Hey! quit posting on this thread, and move over to my 2016 Game thread! you thought this thread was early lol.

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Gosh darn it, I just lost the game due to that link...

My wish:
2015: Some form of aerial robotics
Yes, ladies and gents, flying robots.

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I sincerely thought that multicopters would be involved when "Aerial Assist" flashed across the screen for the first time.

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Same. I just wish that it actually happened...

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Someone finally caught on!!!

(Or at least had the same idea I had to begin with).

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What the heck? It's Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"!

What the FIRST?

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How about capture the flag?

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Alright, here's the best idea that I can think of:


I ask for absolute silence, please.





(suspenseful music)







mega obstacle course:
with
pond,
rock climb
arrow dodge
battle area
and
Random mini-drone attacks.


To top it off, you have to go through two of these courses,

A short one for Autonomous and a long one for teleop.


The robot that goes through fastest wins.

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WATER GAME!!!

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What? It has a pond... you could make it bigger.


By the way, you have to go through the pond.



A water game would also be awesome.


An Ice Game would be super awesome!

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I vote for a cross between robot dodgeball and hockey played entirely on regolith.

In my brain, I have visions of robots trying to control/protect game pieces and score them across the field as human players are allowed to bombard them with balls trying to knock that game piece away. It's played with the same regolith wheel and field combination as lunacy and defensively has very few rules...

Let the ultimate robotic chaos commence!

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that's what regolith is for. all the coefficient of friction reduction with none of the fuss! ;)

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Man, you just beat my first idea.

Guys I know it's a little early but I'm going to go ahead and get the 2037 game thread going as well.

The idea about ice type games, I don't think would work well in south Florida. I dunno.. Could be wrong?

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^regolith

With the introduction of the roboRIO in 2015... What if it was waterproof.
WATER CHALLENGE????!!!!????
I THINK YES

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Aim High with badminton birdies.

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So you can imagine my disappointment when I found out that Arial Assist wasn't actually a flying game...

I think with the new direction that FIRST is going we can expect to see a lot more games focusing on cooperation between teams on the same alliance. For example, I speculate an endgame that will involve two robots on an alliance completing a prerequisite task such as positioning themselves in a certain way that unlocks the final robot's opportunity to complete the actual goal.

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3 alliance game!!!!

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All robots must be controlled by Wiimotes! :D

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How about Flying OVER Water. Hope you don't have a power failure....Splash...:yikes:
Or you better have a good floatation device

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I actually spoke to someone who is creating a challenge to send to FRC regarding a water game. He isn't going to just suggest the idea, he is DOING IT and filming it to show them that it can be done and an idea of how.

Pretty amazing...he's keeping it all hush for now, but he sounded very excited and determined and had already started testing his ideas when we spoke!

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All I want for 2015 is no more projectiles. I'm tired of throwing things, lets lift some stuff now!

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I could imagine all the "do you even lift" jokes that are gonna be thrown around...

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You know, the water game idea may be coming up soon, but I don't think that it is next year.









Good luck every1!

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First question on your pit scouting sheet: "Does your robot even lift?"

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Actually I like the idea of lifting and I have a couple of ideas that go along with it.

See, as a kid I always imagined that we'd have robots helping us in our homes and garages but the ones we design don't seem to have much relation to the 'real' world.

So I want a robot that will set the table. Fast, accurate, plates, knives, forks and spoons. Or clear the table.

I want a robot that will unload the dishwasher. Or move clothes from the washer to the dryer.

Or along another 'lift" idea, I want a robot that will locate the correct spot on the frame and jack up a car while another robot in the alliance loosens the lug nut and the third robot removes the wheel.

How about emptying the trash?

Anyway, I want robots that are useful. We already have vacuuming robots and even some lawn mowing robots in the real world. What else can we do?

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3D Tic-Tac-Toe

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I'm worried that, with all the crazy collisions this year, the planners will be tempted to go back to another "unlimited playing pieces" game next year. I think that would be a mistake. Despite the challenges, I really like Aerial Assist as both a spectator and strategist. Having only two game pieces means that we can all focus on the same action, and assist points mean that superstar teams have to work with their less-well-performing alliance mates, rather than just around them.

Lift or shoot, lets keep the number of pieces on the field to the low single digits next year (and work on cleaning up the foul rules separately).

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That's essentially what rack and roll(2007) was.
IIRC most people didn't like it.

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Just give me a game piece that doesn't depend on a volunteer interpreting a poorly written inflation spec. thanks:cool:

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I personally like this game more than last year's game. The use of only one game piece makes all the members of the alliance useful and makes defense more viable than last year, when blocking meant that you could not shoot easily.
I also love shooting games, but I dread the year when we have to throw footballs- the shape makes it hard to throw well. +1 to some kind of lifting game.

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Whatever it is, I will be happy.



Unless there is anything inflatable

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Agreed, but I'm imagining this with three levels.

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With elevators or ramps that the robots have to go up. Points could be scored by how long you can stay in a tic-tac-toe scoring position with your three robots.

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Maybe you have to have a stationary bot, that deploys a mini-bot, that has to get an object from the opponent. The stationary base shoots stuff at the mini-bot to stop it from taking the object. Points could be awarded for hitting the mini-bot and stealing the object and bringing it back to your bot.

It's like real life tower-defense.


What do you guys think?

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Tiddlywinks with manhole covers.

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Aren't manhole covers kind of heavy? Probably some sort of inflatable disc, or Frisbee. I like the idea!

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I feel like we all skipped over the single most original and important post in this entire thread. As long as we don't have to use the stupid Wii Wheel too.

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Wii wheels are too easy ... we'd need to use Wii tennis rackets.

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Or Wii Nerf guns?

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WATER-WATER-WATER GAME-GAME-GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:p

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WATERGAME SPINOFF:

AMPHIBIOUS BOTS (land and water, but you already knew that.)

They search for randomly placed underwater items that each give a specific amount of points. There's a deep area where you get double points for retrieving items from down there. carry the items on land and deposit them in containers that have specific point values to add to each item's point values.

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Which means "Stack Attack" arguably the second worst FRC game ever would be a key role into creating a game with the "Lift" method?

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I don't even want to imagine how much free time you have, or how bored you were to create this.

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I was thinking more along the lines of "Triple Play" or "Logomotion" as good examples of lifting games. I just see greater engineering value in designing hints to lift and accurately place objects rather than hurling them across the field.

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So I'm thinking Regolith floors, and the only wheels allowed are Mechanums made out of nylon

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The faults of Stack Attack revolved around a variety of problems, including how autonomous ended up being more important than teleop. I think a stacking challenge could still be fun if properly designed.

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Saw this clearly obvious 2015 game hint posted several places around the Dallas Regional.

Clearly there are 2 parts
3 Alliances (the third being green)
Recycling will be the theme next year

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I'm thinking that the face I made when I saw that was terrible. I would cry and laugh at the same time if that was next years challenge.

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Flying game with an allotment of only 2 cims.

Paper airplane game. We've already started.

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I still like the idea of a water game.

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Agreed. The ball inflation killed our accuracy at Purdue and may have been a problem at Nationals, too.

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A team lift game!

Meaning, part of the game would be having to lift a very heavy object. And the fact that it's heavy would mean you could only do it using two or three bots. It could be something attached to a pulley system or something. I'm thinking this would be ideally be done as an end game.

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Yes yes a thousand times yes

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This seems pretty likely. Chances are we're not going to have another ball game.
Maybe a pushing game? Like moving around pyramid shaped objects into goal zones.

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a game where you choose the starting positions and orientation of the opposing alliances' robots

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Robotkey! A combination of hockey and FRC :D

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This would be possible if FIRST could afford it. Keeping ice consistant throughout a 2-3 day event would be very expensive. Unlike a human which can alter their movements simply, this challenge would force FIRST to spend lots of money maintaining ice.

At least water and flight would not cost FIRST so much more.

(All in good fun)