2011 Game Hint #1

[pandamonium]

can we brainstorm what game pieces would go good with stairs?

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

can we brainstorm what game pieces would go good with stairs?

well.. knowing the GDC always wants to make it as hard as possible.. it would likely be a ball.. they dont usually sit well on stairs boxes on the otherhand do work..

opinion depends on your level of optimism

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

can we brainstorm what game pieces would go good with stairs?

That one is easy! Cubes! When pushed together and stacked correctly, they make the stairs! We have to make the stairs, climb up, and do something (perhaps drop a tennis ball down a vertical tube) to score.

[GGCO]

We need to think about what would be exciting for our audience (a group of non-nerds) to watch. Personally, I don't think watching robots build stairs is an exciting spectator sport.

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by GGCO

We need to think about what would be exciting for our audience (a group of non-nerds) to watch. Personally, I don't think watching robots build stairs is an exciting spectator sport.

However climbing and playing on an elevated field or something would be.

[Sam Lipscomb]

Originally Posted by GGCO

We need to think about what would be exciting for our audience (a group of non-nerds) to watch. Personally, I don't think watching robots build stairs is an exciting spectator sport.

I doubt that climbing stairs would be the entire game. But keep in mind that one of Dean's inventions is the iBOT, a wheelchair that can climb stairs. There's no reason it couldn't be one aspect of the 20th anniversary game, just like it was one aspect of the 2004 game!

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon

That one is easy! Cubes! When pushed together and stacked correctly, they make the stairs! We have to make the stairs, climb up, and do something (perhaps drop a tennis ball down a vertical tube) to score.

that one actually makes a ton of sense.. it even adds in the "jumping" part someone mentioned from locamotion.. this would probably make for bigger game alliances (the idea of a train having several cars) which follows what first has been trying to do which is to have more games in a regional.. my ADD mind is already thinking about how bonus points would be part of this one

edit/ I'm really flipflopping everytime someone makes ideas.. hmm.. /edit

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon

That one is easy! Cubes! When pushed together and stacked correctly, they make the stairs! We have to make the stairs, climb up, and do something (perhaps drop a tennis ball down a vertical tube) to score.

That sounds actually very intruiging! Build the field in your favor to reach something.

[EJB2081]

What if there was a sort of train car with an open top that you have to load a ball int?

could circle the field overdrive style but on train tracks outlining the field

[hornetshornets]

For all those who have suggested loco-motion to mean something to do with trains, Amtrak started in May of 1971. That would mean that 2011 is Amtrak's 40 year anniversary