Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by Jardanium

After hearing the shovel ringtone, I had this idea I proposed:

What if the game pieces are coal, and the whole idea is to bring coal to your machine, power the steam engine, and cause a blimp to "fly". The defense would come from fighting over the limited supply of coal.

This could tie in the flying idea without any actual flying.

I dunno, just a thought.

Our team came up with the same thing!

We were thinking Hockey Pucks could be the "Coal" and you score them in a "Hopper"

I think this is on the right track. Someone mentioned Pipes too, Steam Pipes might play as well. Maybe a year of 2 truly different game pieces.

[K-Dawg157]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Our team came up with the same thing!

We were thinking Hockey Pucks could be the "Coal" and you score them in a "Hopper"

I think this is on the right track. Someone mentioned Pipes too, Steam Pipes might play as well. Maybe a year of 2 truly different game pieces.

So, to incorporate the pipes, there's a wall with a machine in the bottom that the "coal" goes into to produce power, you need a certain amount of coal to get it to work. Then, there are pipes you have to line up/ place on the wall to connect the machine to a blimp that needs power. Longer pipes more points etc. If you connect the pieces, the blimp floats and you get extra points.

This would allow rookies to be successful in pushing the "coal" (not too difficult just have to drive) and the teams obviously would work together. This also incorporates "taking flight" without having drones.

***EDIT***
Maybe the coal is pushed up a ramp incorporating ramps? (I forgot about the ramps when writing this)

[Tsukunea]

YES!! I might finally get to use the 1/8 scale train wheels that I designed in SolidWorks! I really do hope something in this years game has rails.

[346CADmen]

Wasn't going to get into this thread but...
"prepare to take flight"!
I see people taking off shoes and waiting in long lines.

[mrail]

Wow. Let's not let our imagination run away. Steam is hot, water is a conductor, coal is hot and dirty, drones may be unsafe, minibot would have to be hardwired as they would be controlled by the RoboRio.

Based on the safety inspections in the previous years, FRC would not ask us to play with fire, steam, coal or anything that could cause physical harm to anyone.

I like the idea of gathering enough fake coal in a boiler like target and when enough coal is gathered, the balloon takes flight.

Maybe the football shape is important. Throwing a spherical ball is somewhat easy. Throwing a football straight requires a spin on it's long axis that is perpendicular to the direction thrown. That would be a nice challenge...

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by mrail

Maybe the football shape is important. Throwing a spherical ball is somewhat easy. Throwing a football straight requires a spin on it's long axis that is perpendicular to the direction thrown. That would be a nice challenge...

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[Type]

Most teams can't even have a robot that drives half the time, having something in the area that could lose control and cause damage to people probably won't happen. That's just my opinion but I just think a flying game won't happen for another couple years maybe, I could be wrong though. And what if this year you have to almost dig for coal, like there is a big area and you have to scoop it out and the more power. The endgame could be to reach a certain amount to be able to get your blimp going. Ramps could be included for the coal to sit, so 2 ramps, low part facing each other to keep the coal in place. Just an idea

[Drakxii]

Originally Posted by Type

Most teams can't even have a robot that drives half the time, having something in the area that could lose control and cause damage to people probably won't happen. That's just my opinion but I just think a flying game won't happen for another couple years maybe, I could be wrong though. And what if this year you have to almost dig for coal, like there is a big area and you have to scoop it out and the more power. The endgame could be to reach a certain amount to be able to get your blimp going. Ramps could be included for the coal to sit, so 2 ramps, low part facing each other to keep the coal in place. Just an idea

Like a giant ball pit but instead of colorful balls, there are brown(dirt/rocks), black(coal)? The teams would sort through the balls and then deliver the black ones?

[Type]

Originally Posted by Drakxii

Like a giant ball pit but instead of colorful balls, there are brown(dirt/rocks), black(coal)? The teams would sort through the balls and then deliver the black ones?

It's possible to see something like that, however can get the most resources wins, maybe some items are worth more but then that just seems too easy. Some teams would just make a very tall robot and get all the coal in one trip

[BotDesigner]

Originally Posted by Type

Some teams would just make a very tall robot and get all the coal in one trip

FIRST could prevent this with a low-bar or a tunnel, but I sure hope that that is not the plan.

[Type]

Originally Posted by BotDesigner

FIRST could prevent this with a low-bar or a tunnel, but I sure hope that that is not the plan.

They could, make a similar field to BreakAway I think it was, make it almost impossible to carry over, and then have a short passage to go under also.

[Type]

I was thinking about it and what if take flight was metaphorical? What did something like 2012 and have you balance, or lift up? Take flight could be a metaphor for like lift. This would also be able to include the possible ramps I've heard people talk about.

[346CADmen]

Hmmm? A tie in from Disney?
The Disney Gallery Presents Mechanical Kingdoms-look it up.

[SpaceBiz]

I personally doubt the blimp will be a game piece because of the trouble FIRST went through last year to remove game elements from the logo. Coal is the most likely of any prediction so far to be a game piece.

[JR0405]

Is there anything at Disney that relates to this? I thought I read an old blog post that said the GDC goes to Disney early on for inspiration.