2013 Game?

[PayneTrain]

No game piece could be more shamelessly recycled than the tetra. On top of that, what new stuff can you really do with it? A mashup of Frenzy with odd game pieces could be entertaining. I like the idea of "physical challenges" the robot has to perform on an object to pull itself up, stack other robots, or balance itself as the endgame portion. They could theme it to a mission to Mars where your alliance has to collect resources of various shapes, sizes and values into 2 of your alliance's movable bins, and doing something like putting the bin on your robot gives you bonus/multiplier points. 2 bots balancing one bin each receives x points, one bot balancing two bins earns y, and spilling your bin earns you a z penalty.

(Doesn't this work better in the Rumor Mill?)

[PVCpirate]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

(Doesn't this work better in the Rumor Mill?)

I think this thread has become such a staple on CD every year that no one has a problem with it being in the general forum.

[dellagd]

Since the GDC is so big on cooperation, I think it would be cool, if robots had to pass game pieces from one to another to score. Nothing more specific than that right now.

[swwrobotics]

This is a completely random guess, but I think the game this year is going to be dodge ball, where you can hide from your opponent behind tall cubes, and for the endgame you have to climb on top of the cube to score points. I think that would be a fun game, but probably not to likely if they're continuing the pattern of a sport, no sport, sport etc this year.

[dellagd]

Another thought. Because I believe the kinect will be more favorable for use next year (The GDC will make it so), The Game might have somehting to do with seeking out objects on the field or avoiding them. Kinect would be useful for both. Maybe the game is to do something WITHOUT knocking over stacks, since the stacking seems to be a popular guess this year?

[Coach LeGate]

Maybe this year's game will have the drive team not on the field. Maybe you will have to use the Kinetic to detect obstacles and use the video to drive by or find objects. The game piece a tub, crate, or tetra and you have to stack them some how.

[PVCpirate]

Originally Posted by Coach LeGate

Maybe this year's game will have the drive team not on the field. Maybe you will have to use the Kinetic to detect obstacles and use the video to drive by or find objects. The game piece a tub, crate, or tetra and you have to stack them some how.

I really don't see a radical change like this happening anytime soon. FIRST is all about growth right now, and this kind of thing(extensive autonomous or programming heavy games, if I get what you're saying) is very tough on rookie teams, and would probably discourage them. Stacking is cool though.

Edit: or did you mean just that the players just can't see the field and have to use video to do so?

[F22Rapture]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

I really don't see a radical change like this happening anytime soon. FIRST is all about growth right now, and this kind of thing(extensive autonomous or programming heavy games, if I get what you're saying) is very tough on rookie teams, and would probably discourage them. Stacking is cool though.

Edit: or did you mean just that the players just can't see the field and have to use video to do so?

That might actually be pretty cool. Navigation purely by using the RGBd data from the Kinect. I just can't see it actually happening... yet. My guess would be that the Kinect would be more integral to the hybrid mode... either it will be required or worth enough extra points to make it worthwhile.

Regardless of what type of game they go for, I think it's going to be more fast-paced and spectator-friendly. I think the bridges were one of the best endgames we've seen so far... not necessarily difficult but still dramatic because of the occasional 3-robot balance, and yes, flipping robots

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

That might actually be pretty cool. Navigation purely by using the RGBd data from the Kinect. I just can't see it actually happening... yet. My guess would be that the Kinect would be more integral to the hybrid mode... either it will be required or worth enough extra points to make it worthwhile.

Regardless of what type of game they go for, I think it's going to be more fast-paced and spectator-friendly. I think the bridges were one of the best endgames we've seen so far... not necessarily difficult but still dramatic because of the occasional 3-robot balance, and yes, flipping robots

Yeah the GDC wants the game to be entertaining, so therefore whatever game they come up with has to be entertaining

[Ravage457]

I think a stacking game is gonna happen, havent seen one since 2005 (Triple Play), and they havent used a tetra since then, but more than likely it gotta be a stacking game

[BlacksmithWoods]

Originally Posted by Ravage457

I think a stacking game is gonna happen, havent seen one since 2005 (Triple Play), and they havent used a tetra since then, but more than likely it gotta be a stacking game

I agree completely with you. Not to mention that this year is the ten year anniversary of Stack Attack. I would like to see some kind of tetra though.

[Ravage457]

Originally Posted by BlacksmithWoods

I agree completely with you. Not to mention that this year is the ten year anniversary of Stack Attack. I would like to see some kind of tetra though.

Yea that true, but the one game mix up i would like to see is Toroid Terror/Triple Play mix together and Raising the bar where you do a pull up as the final part