2013 Game Hint!

[Mike Rizzo]

Sorry I try not to post unless the info might be useful but is it just me of does the bottom left tack look like a thumbtack(flat) and the others look like pushpins?

[rsisk]

"never gonna give you up", they are bringing back failed concepts from the past. We are going to have a kinect, minibot, and lunacy wheels.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Originally Posted by rsisk

"never gonna give you up", they are bringing back failed concepts from the past. We are going to have a kinect, minibot, and lunacy wheels.

Best idea yet

[MARS_Batista]

Now I understand that I do not know a lot it being only my second year. But i am a bit concerned about the cage-like background. Could we be looking at a multi-level cage match?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by rsisk

"never gonna give you up", they are bringing back failed concepts from the past. We are going to have a kinect, minibot, and lunacy wheels.

Don't forget the Xv0 and stacking bins.

And extra bonuses placed just outside the field.

And pressure pads.

And lighted vision targets.

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

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by rsisk

"never gonna give you up", they are bringing back failed concepts from the past. We are going to have a kinect, minibot, and lunacy wheels.

Not a fan of those three items!

[AcesJames]

Originally Posted by Flak-Bait

Best idea yet

Or worst, depending on how much you liked plastic wheels, cheap motors prone to burning out, and using motion-sensing videogame controllers for driving robots.

[billbo911]

Since many of you are stuck on the concept of 3s:

Hockey is a 3 period game, with 3 zones.
(Aim High had 3 periods after Auton.)

The 3 colors represent two alliances, red and blue, and the active goal on the field, yellow.

Just my $.03.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by EricH

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

Which game are you referring to with that?

[Steven Sigley]

I see things a little more like this:
3 pushpins: one red, one blue, one yellow.
3 alliances, but what if they were 1 robot each.
3 minutes into the video for the screenshot giving 3 minute matches as predicted. 3 robots on a field gives room for 2 smaller fields. Which does not disrupt event flow.

More time to play, less reliance on teammates, more individual success.
Maybe that 4th pin which is red but not a pushpin plays a major role.

Also Rack n Roll similar to Rick Roll

[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.)

[apples000]

The picture has GPS coordinates in its metadata.... It points near DEKA in New Hampshire, but not quite in the building.


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[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?