2013 Game?

[Tetraman]

I, for one, approve of tetras returning.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

I, for one, approve of tetras returning.

Tetras would be cool, but put a twist. Get a different random shape. Something like a hexagonal prism that's been hollowed out.

[ZipTie3182]

It's by no means a "hint" but in the videos of the Q&A session at champs, Bill Miller mentioned that they are possibly scrapping their plan for 2013 due to seeing this year's game live. I think he meant that after seeing this year's game, they for some reason changed their mind about what they had planned. On that note, he repeatedly said they were very pleased with how cooperation worked out and that it was very hard to seed well if you didn't cooperate. So, I would expect co-op to be as value as it was this year again.

I also recall him very strongly emphasizing using the kinect in the offseason and that while this year the field did not support on-robot kinects, that may not be the case in future. Therefore, I see on-robot capabilities being a bonus next year or in 2014.

Just my thoughts....

-Anna

[372 lives on]

I think they will have another game similar to this one.
easy to understand scoring/ interesting to general public.


so not tetras

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by 372 lives on

I think they will have another game similar to this one.
easy to understand scoring/ interesting to general public.


so not tetras

2005 was won by scoring more tetras and playing tic tac toe. I think that is pretty simple, I never had a student who struggled to grasp what 2005 game was after watching it. All you need to say, tetras are 3 points, controlling a row was 10 points. Simple

[Ian Curtis]

I don't know what the nature of the game will be, but I think this graphic is particularly telling. It seems that 2012 was pretty universally acclaimed as a pretty enjoyable game, and @FRCFMS gave us data on how teams were scoring points. In Rebound Rumble, there was a pretty even distribution between the three parts of the game, teams scored about as many points in autonomous as they did in teleop, as they did in the endgame. There are obviously outliers, but in general it was pretty close. This would provide a good scoring roadmap as FIRST moves forward.



Now I'm kind of curious to see what this distribution looked like at the CMP though. There's something to be said for how the typical field plays the game versus the top tier, and the championship field was significantly outscoring the week 2 field.

[nahstobor]

Aim High II.

With a high goal that doesn't jam and real time scoring.

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by nahstobor

Aim High II.

With a high goal that doesn't jam and real time scoring.

Sounds quite a bit like rebound rumble. Plus, I doubt that they would do similar shooting games two years in a row.

[Austin2046]

Personally, I like the idea of tetras, batons, traffic cones, footballs, plastic bins... or other oddly shaped and unique game pieces. I even liked the inner tubes for logomotion and rack and roll, but by now inner tubes and balls seem like problems we've already solved. We know how to manipulate those game pieces and score them. So it's my hope that the GDC comes up with an interesting game piece for next year's game.

I was thinking instead of having 1 standard game piece we could have 3 different ones... they could be completely different or even just different sizes. So we'd have to build a device that could handle the 3 different game pieces, or 3 different devices... or we'd have to plan on manipulating only 1 or 2 of the game pieces... and the game pieces could all have different point values. I think it would be really interesting and challenging from both a design and strategic standpoint, making for interesting and different machines as well as gameplay.

[z_beeblebrox]

Something capture-the-flaggy would be cool.