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Originally Posted by Mitchell1714
A few observations after watching 10 times:
1. The beginning of the video where all the students are around the tents appears to resemble the pits and they later go to the field.
2. At 20 seconds there are 6 students in blue and 1 mentor in red looking at the robot in the pits. At 41 seconds there are 6 students and no mentor driving the robot. Will the GDC change the rules to disallow mentors to be robo-coaches?
3. At 41 seconds it is clear this is the drive team. 2 students have xbox controllers and are driving the robot. 1 student is in between the drivers instructing them. 1 student is standing off to the side with a flag, human player with game piece? Then there are 2 students in the back with their hands in the air as fists, what are they doing? Are they on the drive team?
4. The robot has 8 wheel tank drive. That was done on purpose, it would be easier to animate a 4 wheel or 6 wheel tank drive so there must be some driving obstacle.
5. In "the pits" in the beginning you can see the tower. There will likely be a large field element you can see from the pits.
6. Also in "the pits" in the beginning of the video, some tents (individual teams pits) have blue, red, or yellow flags, some have no flags. Why would we need to put flags in our pits? Could it be to symbolize what position in the game we are playing,ranking in qualification matches, something else?
7. The new improved plowie is made out of stones from the castle. Will a robot itself be the Stronghold?
8. At 23 seconds, why are 2 students putting a flag over the robot and at 25 seconds why is a student taking a brush to the robot? These 2 events are completely unrelated to the story-line.
9. At 42 seconds the robot's arms are in a karate fighting position. I assume this means the robot will have a manipulator come out of the bumper perimeter to interact with game pieces.
10.The video has a lot of flags in it. Will they be the game piece?
11. I have not figured out the blueprints yet.
These are just some ideas from the first hour of thinking about it. Don't take them too seriously.
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This is great. I think the flag over a robot indicates that it died.
The 4 flag colors might mean that there will be 4 alliances. Having 2 robots per alliance for a total of 8 robots on the field at once would allow more teams to compete at once.
Looking at the blueprints, I think there will be gates that will have to be opened.
Will there be gate keepers, like in the Holy Grail?
Dave