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Re: [Official 2005 Game Design] OK, so YOU design the 2005 game...
I read this somewhere on chiefdelphi along time ago (and I would give credit to whomever came up with this but alas, I cannot remember)
It was posted as a joke, "evidence" of next years game. The person had claimed to have found (at FIRST HQ) hundreds of the new game pieces; 2 liter soda bottles.
I thought this was rather hilarious, but then I began to think. Soda bottles would be REALLY good game pieces, with their labels removed of course (or should they remain on for a potential sponsor?). They are cheap, readily available, and must conform to specifications issued by the bottling industry. They are also, tough. They are take considerably more abuse then balls for example.
In addition, many strategies can be employed to handle these bottles, just examine a bottling plant, they are handled by suction manipulators, by self centering grippers that conform to the "lip" found just below the cap etc.
And, in order to get that many bottles...FREE REFRESHMENTS (just kidding), maybe contact a local bottler to see if they would be interested in selling/donating unfilled bottles(if I remember correctly, they cost only about 9 cents each and the caps are another 5)
Perhaps, these bottles could be collected and then funneled into smaller game pieces like boxes or bins with attached lids (think recycling bins) so the team could collect the bottles and put them into the larger boxes. Those boxes would be scored differently.
I really donno what would make a good game. I haven't thought about it alot, but I thought I would tell y'all about the bottles. Perhaps they can be Incorporated into another's design.
Best luck!
-Andy
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