2011 Game Hint #1

[EricH]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

Wait, your team spent a full day brainstorming the game hint?

Only one full day of brainstorming on the hint? Boy are they behind... This thread's been busy for a week!

[skebhners2]

Originally Posted by EricH

Only one full day of brainstorming on the hint? Boy are they behind... This thread's been busy for a week!

Other members of the team have known of the hint, and haven't really looked into it much.
We just figured, is there a better way to ring in the New Year than having a random brainstorm?

[skebhners2]

Happy New Year XD
7 Days Till Kickoff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jash_J]

I think the only part we should get from this clue is that there will be some type of reverse play in the game? -- due to the picture being reversed. Yes, they could have chosen any picture being reversed then....however i think they picked this one to play with our minds a bit because of her songs/albums and how their names refer to many options to this years game.
They did this just to play with our minds/build hype..

[Sarah2729]

I've been trying to think of what the picture could mean, and I'm probably reading wayyyy too much into it, but here are some ideas/thoughts I had:

-Dimensions- The fact that the picture was an album cover from Dimension Records could mean something
-Like someone said earlier, the fact that it's an album cover could signify a disk and the column could represent a goalpoast, so maybe some sort of frisbee thing?
- Based on lyrics from The Loco-Motion, maybe part of it is forming a train or chain with alliance members
-Someone else on here said something really clever: the fact that the image was reversed and Little Eva is famous for the Loco-Motion could signify doing something backwards, such as pulling objects.
-Not sure if anyone said this, but the nickname "Little Eva" comes from a character in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin...that could be significant.

I'm really anxious to see what the game is going to be!

[Dripto]

Originally Posted by Sarah2729

-Dimensions- The fact that the picture was an album cover from Dimension Records could mean something

That seems like an interesting way to look at it.

[GGCO]

Originally Posted by Sarah2729

I've been trying to think of what the picture could mean, and I'm probably reading wayyyy too much into it, but here are some ideas/thoughts I had:

-Dimensions- The fact that the picture was an album cover from Dimension Records could mean something
-Like someone said earlier, the fact that it's an album cover could signify a disk and the column could represent a goalpoast, so maybe some sort of frisbee thing?
- Based on lyrics from The Loco-Motion, maybe part of it is forming a train or chain with alliance members
-Someone else on here said something really clever: the fact that the image was reversed and Little Eva is famous for the Loco-Motion could signify doing something backwards, such as pulling objects.
-Not sure if anyone said this, but the nickname "Little Eva" comes from a character in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin...that could be significant.

I'm really anxious to see what the game is going to be!

First, you need to go here.
Second, I think you're reading too much into the clue.

[SEV33RoboMan]

Now i've never been big on strange things happening for certain reasons but this seems just a little suspicious.

The harmelen train disaster:

"It was shortly before twenty past nine in the morning of Monday January 8, 1962 when a train bound for Amsterdam was snaking through the junction. Consisting of two electric multiple units it was moving at about 45 mph. The manouvre was protected from oncoming train by a red signal on the approach to the junction from the Utrecht direction.

A Utrecht to Rotterdam express train, headed by an electric locomotive, No. 1137 and travelling at about 60 mph was approaching the junction. Perhaps because of the foggy conditions, the driver missed a yellow light warning that the next signal was at red. It must have been at the last moment that he saw the danger signal. The driver applied the brakes but there was nothing more that he could do. Collision was inevitable."

Now i find it strange that the LED was also invented in 1962 and the little eva narcis song loco-motion came out in 1962

My thought we have a course that does indeed involve trains and i beleive mirrors will be a big part while using LED's. Maybe there is a part of the field that is hidden and we must use lights and mirrors to get there?

[Tetraman]

New Idea

Highest ring is 10' up, the second ring is 7' up. The circle step is just a simple 2".

Just brainstorming on the idea of the column. So I thought something Colosseum-like.

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

New Idea

Highest ring is 10' up, the second ring is 7' up. The circle step is just a simple 2".

Just brainstorming on the idea of the column. So I thought something Colosseum-like.

its a interesting idea.. but what would the game be with a design like this? im curious

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Team#2057-Vegas

its a interesting idea.. but what would the game be with a design like this? im curious

Not sure. I have been brainstorming, just that. Maybe you have to hang PVC hooks, like candy canes, on the bars...or something. Not really sure yet.

[demosthenes2k8]

No, clearly they have to get balls from the center into the opponent's color zone. But they can't touch the middle circle. HAVE FUN.

[DonRotolo]

Let's be rational for a moment here:

Thinking back to Overdrive and the game hints: Remember the GPS coordinates? A bronze statue of a tortoise and a hare, in Boston's Copley Square. "It is a race"

Or Lunacy and the "Moon Fish"

Now we have a picture of Little Eva. Her *very* famous song is Locomotion.

My point is that the clues in the past have been very upfront, basic and plain. Overt is the word, I think. So reading all these conspiracies and double (or triple) meanings into it (Covert) - I don't think so.

"Locomotion". That's the whole clue. Nuthin' else in there, sorry. Probably the game's name. We'll see who's right in 6 days.

Craziness may resume now.

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

New Idea

Highest ring is 10' up, the second ring is 7' up. The circle step is just a simple 2".

Just brainstorming on the idea of the column. So I thought something Colosseum-like.

That would be a fun field. But I'd make the 'circle' 8" off the ground or so, and a slick surface.

I nominate thee for the GDC....

[skebhners2]

Originally Posted by SEV33RoboMan

Now i've never been big on strange things happening for certain reasons but this seems just a little suspicious.

The harmelen train disaster:

"It was shortly before twenty past nine in the morning of Monday January 8, 1962 when a train bound for Amsterdam was snaking through the junction. Consisting of two electric multiple units it was moving at about 45 mph. The manouvre was protected from oncoming train by a red signal on the approach to the junction from the Utrecht direction.

A Utrecht to Rotterdam express train, headed by an electric locomotive, No. 1137 and travelling at about 60 mph was approaching the junction. Perhaps because of the foggy conditions, the driver missed a yellow light warning that the next signal was at red. It must have been at the last moment that he saw the danger signal. The driver applied the brakes but there was nothing more that he could do. Collision was inevitable."

Now i find it strange that the LED was also invented in 1962 and the little eva narcis song loco-motion came out in 1962

My thought we have a course that does indeed involve trains and i beleive mirrors will be a big part while using LED's. Maybe there is a part of the field that is hidden and we must use lights and mirrors to get there?

I had mentioned the LED's awhile back. Mainly, I see them being used to reverse goals.