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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

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I'm interested to know why the clock reads 1:08 (or 13:08, or 1:07/13:07). I can't imagine that's a random time.
That's just a hint to say when we will be able to go home every night since this game will be so hard
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

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Of course not, but the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are very closely linked in both subject matter and the issues that they face (but are still very diverse). Including Art, a field that is completely unrelated, and important for reasons that are entirely separate from the reasons that STEM subjects are seems disingenuous to me. STEAM is an acronym that loses its way for the want of including too many fields - it becomes a platitude that loses all meaning.
I agree with ArthurA. Promoting art is very important, and as FIRST teams/STEM advocates we have to be careful to not disparage artists and those interested in pursuing it. STEAM is a useful acronym because it spells out a longer word than STEM there are plenty of cases where Art + STEM are in the spotlight together. Just not all the time.

Regarding the theme, I'm... not a big fan. I wish FIRST would return to classic sports themed games. Western culture has such an innate knowledge of sports ingrained in us that when someone says "basketball but with robots" there's plenty that can be extrapolated and assumed right away. Even Aerial Assist can be explained as "kinda like football, but with yoga balls and robots," which is fairly accurate. Recycle Rush was a complete 180 in this regard. You can't really just say "recycling but with robots." And it was a fairly simple game, so you could possibly excuse this one because it isn't too difficult to explain with just a sentence. Stronghold was more difficult to explain to complete newcomers. "It's a castle siege" doesn't tell you much about the game at all. I guess that with a game video they're all pretty easy, but that's just a small nitpick I have.

My real beef with themed games is the cultural aspect, if you can call it that. FIRST's mission is to inspire kids to pursue STEM careers. I think we get too caught up a certain group of kids - the kids that already like STEM. When you say "hey, it's robots, but Monty Python/Steampunk!" I'd wager you're not going to be getting a larger group of interested kids. You might get more interest from certain kids, sure. But if you're trying to make robotics appealing to a crowd that is skeptical of anything uncool, adding a medieval or steampunk label on top of that is not going to help you one bit. This is especially relevant in more underprivileged areas* - robotics isn't doing you any social favors in the first place. If a school has a graduation rate in the 50's or 60's, I don't think the culture is super encouraging of kids who wanna be nerdy steampunk kids. It's difficult enough to recruit kids for soccer with robots, I'm not a fan of making that more difficult by recruiting them to renaissance fair with robots.

*disclaimer: i come from a pretty privileged suburban background, so feel free to completely disregard my attempt at empathy
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

So along with the theme there was a so called dlc pack released. With many developers today moving twords a dlc model to obtain more money it makes sense for first to do the same. Now its just to determine where these dlc's will come into play within first. For team registration it could be that when you register now you only get labeled as an fr team and you have to get the c as a dlc. First could also very well include playoffs at events as a dlc, one you have to pay on spot. (This is a joke if you couldn't tell )
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

So i watched the teaser on youtube and after it had finished, a second video started. It was the 2016 FIRST Championship Welcome Ceremony clip. And all of the performers in the video are wearing steampunk-esque clothing. They literally told us the theme at nationals.
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

Does anyone else feel like this house looks out of place? (bottom right corner of the high res wallpaper). Almost looks like it was cut and pasted it on top of the rest of the image, or is supposed to show an "overall" view and the rest of the image is a "close-up" or "inside" of sorts.

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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

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The number six may imply that there will still be 6 robots on the field at a time.
Could very well mean that. This whole thread is full of speculation.
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

Interesting fact, there is actually a board game that is called steamworks. Maybe it is a clue.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143176/steam-works
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Interesting fact, there is actually a board game that is called steamworks. Maybe it is a clue.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/143176/steam-works
Kinda like this past year and StrongHold??
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

The Spectrum students did a great job with the teaser breakdown. Loved a lot of their ideas.

I think they may have predicted part of the game years ago.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...hreadid=116599

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Also this looks like a major game piece since it's in the logo and in the highres with the FIRST logo on it... But where would someone source a game piece like this?!?! When I saw it in the logo, I thought it looked like this probably will move... Maybe in the air??
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There's already one in the air. Look to the right of the large building in the center of the image.
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Re: Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

Not so fast on the drones -- note that the image of "prepare to take flight" showed an airship*, not a drone, not an aircraft, not a copter. 'nuff said.

* that is, a lighter-than-air vessel

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I'm already dreading looking forward to all the cosplay that I know is bound to happen this year....
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No steam is a vapor not a gas.
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Also this looks like a major game piece since it's in the logo and in the highres with the FIRST logo on it... But where would someone source a game piece like this?!?! When I saw it in the logo, I thought it looked like this probably will move... Maybe in the air??
That looks to me like a submarine with jet nacelles.

The front end is a WWII-era submarine with oversize dive planes, the middle has a post-WWII body (cylindrical), the jet nacelles and a slightly undersize conning tower, and the rear has a shrouded propeller and a horizontal stabilizer rather like an aeroplane (but shorter and longer). The porthole midway between the dive planes and the conning tower and the windows in the conning tower are rather amusing.
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Raised platforms, either for robots or scoring pieces. Otherwise that ramp to where the team is working on the robot wouldn't be necessary.



Also why does their robot diagram (and robot) have only 5 wheels and an opening on the side?
Anyone notice the 5-wheel drive schematic on the wall?
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What's the significance of 1989 and like 38ish PSI?
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