anyone have any ideas about next years game?

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by buildmaster5000

YES!!!!!!!! after two minutes, three feet of water floods the field, but that would be messy and hard to control. I would feel sorry if your robot got a little wet...

WATERGAME

[AcesJames]

Dunno if it's been mentioned already... (Not searching 12 pages )....But I'd like to think that the GDC is going to keep with the modified sports motif, like soccer this past season. Dean himself at Kickoff said that he was "not afraid to do what's been proven to work already". I'm probably misquoting that, but you get the picture.

Considering that FRC keeps pushing for camera aided gameplay, I have a feeling we will be aiming at a target again in 2011, much the same way as 2010. Obviously, older games used the camera, but not quite in the same way. Bearing this in mind, the obvious sports that come to mind would probably be Hockey, Baseball, Football.

Or, the GDC could surprise us and go to something not-so-related to sports. It would follow a pattern... 2006 was basketball, 2007 was tic-tac-toe, 2008 was NASCAR, 2009 was...lunar exploration?, 2010 was soccer. According to this, it would seem that games that are similar to professional sports occur every other year. If that means anything at all, we're going to something different in 2011, and in that case, I have no idea.

[theprgramerdude]

Originally Posted by buildmaster5000

YES!!!!!!!! after two minutes, three feet of water floods the field, but that would be messy and hard to control. I would feel sorry if your robot got a little wet...

Perhaps just one giant maze, with a load of obstacles/objects and holes in the way, with highground at the other end? Winner is the first one there? Hey, maybe even make it multi-level.

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by theprgramerdude

Perhaps just one giant maze, with a load of obstacles/objects and holes in the way, with highground at the other end? Winner is the first one there? Hey, maybe even make it multi-level.

Maybe a Putt-putt/Golf theme - ramps, obstacles, etc... it could be a 3D game with multiple levels - you could either shoot the balls into the holes, or push them in. The more difficult the hole, the more the points - of course it would be full contact golf!

[R2D2DOC]

FOOTBALLS ! !

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,235226

[johnr]

Don't have guess on game but on field piece-- an arch.

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by Klynn

...But the it's going to take more time trying to figure out how to drive it with only the camera...

We have a camera on our robot, fed to the Dashboard at 120x160. We only use the camera for dashboard feedback, and the framerate is good (although there is lag). During a practice session at CTC, the driver was able to drive down the indoor street from the shop, turn a corner into hallway, and drive the practice robot into the CAD room (standard-size door, no bumpers on the robot), with only the camera.

When the robot got back, I had a little tuning to do on the ride height, so I setup the controls on a bench in the shop. After fixing the ride height problem and flashing the code, I drove it out the doors and into the street (there are streets at CTC indoors), and drove around without any possibility of seeing the robot. I was semi-able to collect balls (the largest problem was blind spot directly in front of the robot), aim at people around 15 feet away, and kick. It was fun. I was then able to get the robot up to its full speed of 13.2 ft/sec in high gear, something we had never measured before on this robot (we measured 11.5 on the practice bot), driving by camera. The lag isn't that bad, only about 1s behind reality, so with enough practice you can account for that and follow, say, a line down the side of the road (something we did)

We did not train our drivers to drive by camera; we only use the camera on-field to give the coach feedback on balls hidden out of sight. But in the ~hour and two batteries of practice bot driving we had, we found it quite easy to drive by camera (even in high gear), although the lag time made it difficult to collect balls and perform accurate tasks quickly.

[R2D2DOC]

Alrighty==>

Arch + Putt_Putt = CROQUET ! !

[Enigma's puzzle]

Ok, a game with very little rules, just the standard no intent to destroy. The field is littered with balls, like Nerf balls, a combination of basketballs (like aim high), footballs, and the footballs with tails.

basketballs 1 point
footballs 2 points
tailed footballs 2x multiplier

Each team has a normal 8 foot table or 2 directly in front of the alliance wall. fully above the table at the end of the game counts, whether in your robot, on top of a robot, or directly on the table.

Maybe change the table in a way so balls stay on, or fall off. Or make zones in which prohibit defenders or more than 1 defender, or whatever the GDC can come up with to mess with our minds.

[Durza16]

I think a golf game would be interesting, and the maze idea is a good one.

but im secretly hoping for a watergame.

[JohnFogarty]

.....Jai-ali WOULD BE A WIN

[Thuvishan.R]

I would love to see some ramps come back either be it climbing on top of other robots or on a stationary ramp.

[Wildcat]

maybe no auto mode next year, maybe there will be a drop down cover screen in front of the driver stations for the first 15 sec forcing teams to use the camera feed to the DS to navigate

[theprgramerdude]

I don't think that can happen, seeing as how easily the field breaks already. What if one teams curtain doesn't retract?

[biojae]

Originally Posted by Thuvishan.R

I would love to see some ramps come back either be it climbing on top of other robots or on a stationary ramp.

Weren't the bumps ramp-like enough for you this year?
And there were some ramp-bots this year, to get others on the platform.