2013 Game Hint!

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by EricH

And just for good measure, a ridiculously small endgame bonus.

Which game are you referring to with that?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Which game are you referring to with that?

Triple Play. 10 points for getting all three robots completely behind a line that ran along at the points of the 3 home row goals. (Incidentally, the area was big enough for 4 robots... if you took the time to put them in. 2 robots started in the area, and one was out on the center home goal.) One tetra placed during that time could usually score 13 points if in the right place; if you really got lucky, 23 points, not counting the potential -20 to the opponents, so up to a 43-point swing if you didn't bother to go for 10 points.



Oh, and BTW: the hallmark of all the game hints for Triple Play was a very high tendency to the number 3.

[Drennael]

Red, Yellow, and Blue are PRIMARY COLORS. I'm not sure what this might mean; I'll leave it to others to speculate. (Although when I first saw the yellow, I immediately thought of the yellow tubes in LogoMotion...)

Additionally, I'm pretty sure that the bottom left pin IS also a pushpin; you can see a faint shadow at the edge of the photo border, which corresponds with the angle of the other pushpin shadows. (Plus, non-pushpins tend to leave more of an indent. I could be wrong, though.)

[MARS_Batista]

O.K. this is my second year with FIRST. Now I see there is a lot of talk about previous year games. We must remember this is a new game we must look at the big PICTURE. Literally look at the picture. I believe that the material in the back is a cage material. Above the picture there is a red and yellow alliance. Then below is a red and blue alliance. Now this is just a thought. We could be looking at a multiple level game.

[efoote868]

GDC pretty much Rick Roll's you guys and in 2 hours we've already got 51 comments?

[DMetalKong]

Originally Posted by efoote868

GDC pretty much Rick Roll's you guys and in 2 hours we've only got 51 comments?

FYP

[bearbot]

I think triple play 2.0 is likely a this point but instead of 2005 and tetras and in 2009 orbit balls its time for 2013 and the rectangle shape could hint as a cube you have to stack or rectangle prisms.

[Donut]

Assuming that we're not being rick rolled by the GDC (a big assumption I might add), I'm taking a literal interpretation of that photo. The song is titled "Never Gonna Give You Up" and that is also the line being sung at 3:00 when this photo was taken. That to me implies some sort of control aspect to the game, either over a game piece or field object.

If we're insistent on FIRST reusing a game element two that come quickly to mind that fit the bill are king of the hill (Stack Attack ) and trackballs (as already suggested by Nick).

[Suitster]

There's the line right after 3:00,
"Never gonna let you down"

ascension endgame?

[Akash Rastogi]

This is just the GDC telling you to know the rules.

We know the game and we're gonna play it.

[tsaksa]

Could inclusion of the microphone in the clip be an indication of a voice command assisted autonomous mode?

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Suitster

There's the line right after 3:00,
"Never gonna let you down"

ascension endgame?

Now this sounds likely. What was the game where robots had to climb on top of eachother?

EDIT: The game I found was rack n roll. Possibly combining with the fact that "rack n roll" is similar to "rick roll".

Were going to have the rack n roll end game? Does that sound not good?

I doubt another tube game two years after logomotion.

[stephenmcd71]

Originally Posted by Donut

Assuming that we're not being rick rolled by the GDC (a big assumption I might add), I'm taking a literal interpretation of that photo. The song is titled "Never Gonna Give You Up" and that is also the line being sung at 3:00 when this photo was taken. That to me implies some sort of control aspect to the game, either over a game piece or field object.

If we're insistent on FIRST reusing a game element two that come quickly to mind that fit the bill are king of the hill (Stack Attack ) and trackballs (as already suggested by Nick).

What if its like king of the hill and theres scoring periods if its three minutes with three alliances maybe 1 minute blue has to score while not giving up control of the goal (the goal being the fourth tack) then 2nd minute red thn 3rd minute yellow it seems fun

[nathannfm]

Not that it helps much but the picture seems to be genuine, it still has metadata on it. It was taken today (10/11/2012) at 9:42am with an HTC EVO 4G at these GPS coordinates 42.989937, -71.467928 (google map) http://bit.ly/ReaHbF

[Jibsy]

Originally Posted by nathannfm

Not that it helps much but the picture seems to be genuine, it still has metadata on it. It was taken today (10/11/2012) at 9:42am with an HTC EVO 4G at these GPS coordinates 42.989937, -71.467928 (google map) http://bit.ly/ReaHbF

Near a river...

You know what that means!