[FRC Blog] Audience Displays and a Favor

[engunneer]

If you think of it like a hand to hand video game like street fighter, the display makes more sense to me. On your half, you have your score and your remaining health.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by engunneer

If you think of it like a hand to hand video game like street fighter, the display makes more sense to me. On your half, you have your score and your remaining health.

Yeah but losing health doesn't effect your points. It would be different if everyone started with x points and teams lost points when their defenses and towers are attacked.

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

Yeah but losing health doesn't effect your points. It would be different if everyone started with x points and teams lost points when their defenses and towers are attacked.

^This. Unlike in video games, you don't really care about your remaining health. It is not like you lose if you reach 0.

I find it weird that when blue scores, something happens on Red's side of the screen that doesn't affect Red.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by engunneer

If you think of it like a hand to hand video game like street fighter, the display makes more sense to me. On your half, you have your score and your remaining health.

Yeah, the visuals and gameplay of this game are heavily influenced by video games. This way of doing it makes sense to me, even if it's a but different than what you'd expect based on previous years.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by engunneer

If you think of it like a hand to hand video game like street fighter, the display makes more sense to me. On your half, you have your score and your remaining health.

That does help when *I* think about it, and after fully understanding the scoreboard... but what about my mom in the audience who's never played Street Fighter?

Just because a lot of this community plays video games doesn't mean it's intuitive to the folks from 'outside the tent' FIRST has been trying to bring in this season...

Edit: Beat me to it.

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

^This. Unlike in video games, you don't really care about your remaining health. It is not like you lose if you reach 0.

I find it weird that when blue scores, something happens on Red's side of the screen that doesn't affect Red.