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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

It would be farily easy to not use tracks while still getting the "track" feel by making the "train cars" mounted on something like the KoP chassis. It would use only four sticky wheels in a long orentation (or plaction if AM wanted too donate.) This set-up would result in the "train cars" being very difficult to turn so they would basically function as if they were on a track.

If they were actually used in the game they would also proabably have bumpers (for protection of the game pieces and alliance marking) and say 50-100 pounds of weights a couple inches from the ground to make them extreamly difficult to tip over or to move anything but forward and backward. (as if on a track)

I'll laugh if this is the case; it would be pretty cool.
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

compared to the original album cover that the picture comes from she is reversed so possibly a reverse in autonomous order? another thing is that she is standing by a collumb so could play effect. lastly dont get stuck on locomotion she had plenty of other songs and locomotion is too obvious
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column???

One of my students sent me this link....thinks it would be a good challenge!

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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

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You guys are missing something important. The Banana. Bananas are plants, and they need water to grow. WATER GAME!
Or the column....hmmmm looks kinda Greek, and the greeks had bath houses and stuff right? Water Game!
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

HA! A front train car with a smokestack. Maybe put a giant ball on the top for a bonus multiplyer and the car is flat, so you can have a robot try and stand on it at the end of the game.

...I'm just having some fun with this haha.

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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

You know Tetraman, I'm kind of considering the actual real possibility that this could be the game. Like I am really looking at it and I could see the GDC making this as the game.
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

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Am I the only person thinking this is offensive?
Really? A banana?
And we're all ok with this?
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

I do think its pretty offensive but was it intended that way...I don't know for sure. If anything it's just a joke to Eva and trying not to be insulting in any way possible. So I hope...
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

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Am I the only person thinking this is offensive?
Really? A banana?
And we're all ok with this?
A few years ago, Dave Lavery was seen with a banana in his shirt pocket - an obvious game hint, and a recurring meme ever since.

I am 100% sure that is what IndySam was getting at.
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You know Tetraman, I'm kind of considering the actual real possibility that this could be the game. Like I am really looking at it and I could see the GDC making this as the game.
I could see the game, but I'm missing a lot of the aesthetics that many of the previous games have had. That's why I have that center color bat between the tracks - it has the aesthetic of previous games.

I'm missing the main game element, if it's a ball or something.

I have thought about trailers, like how many trains carry trailers that go on tractor trailer trucks. Maybe if we had to stack PVC 'crates' on the boxcars, but I'm having trouble figuring how to fit the boxcars and multiple other objects I'm adding to the field into the wooden crates that are used for storage of the torn down FIRST field as it travels to regionals. Which is the big thing when thinking about making FIRST games - how much space these field elements take up when torn down for travel.
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

It seems you have most of the aesthetics down. The real game piece could vary in so many ways that it seems easier to leave that to others to decide. I think that there would be enough space to have both of those "trains" travel as well. FIRST could also add another crate to the mix but I am not sure how much more money that would cost them to pay for the shipping between regionals. It's a really good concept overall and if this were to be the game for 2011 I say bring it on!
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Really? A banana?
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I am 100% sure that is what IndySam was getting at.
Bingo, it's a long standing traditional joke.
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What is offensive about a woman holding a banana?
Nothing, of course.

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Bingo, it's a long standing traditional joke.
And now, for those of us who weren't aware of the joke, there is no reason to take offense.
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

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HA! A front train car with a smokestack. Maybe put a giant ball on the top for a bonus multiplyer and the car is flat, so you can have a robot try and stand on it at the end of the game.

...I'm just having some fun with this haha.

is this an autodesk file
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I'm missing the main game element, if it's a ball or something.
How about loading varying lengths of PVC pipe into box cars? pipe could be located in dispensers around the field to be picked up by the robot, or taken from opponents cars.
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