2011 Red Herring #1

[EricH]

Zone Zeal meets Diabolical Dynamics.

The game objects are trees (Pennsylvania literally means, "Penn's Forest" or "Penn's Woods"). Penn Station is a place where transportation routes come together, so teams must control the tree transport route junctions.

The 6v0 comes from speed to get your alliance's trees to their station, plus the speed with which your opponents get their trees to their station, the sum of which is your score for the round. Coopertition bonus is only given if both teams accomplish the task, and is worth 2*your opponent's score pre-penalties. Oh, and you can only move your trees through a junction if you control it.

Oh, and by "trees", I mean the Michigan state tree (traffic cone) and the Oklahoma state tree (telegraph pole).

(Now watch this go into the 2013 game...)

[Bjenks548]

If Penn keeps coming up, is there any reason the game piece can not just be a bunch of pens? it would pose an interesting game element to pick up and make a hopper for.

[demosthenes2k8]

Haha, Bjenks. I mentioned that same idea today. The response was a definite "NO THAT'D BE HORRIBLE!"

GDC, PLEASE don't take this as a suggestion.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8

Haha, Bjenks. I mentioned that same idea today. The response was a definite "NO THAT'D BE HORRIBLE!"

GDC, PLEASE don't take this as a suggestion.

Hey, it's better than the baton suggestion a few years ago. At least pens are useful--it'll make it easy for folks to write stuff down when they need to!

[RoboMaster]

Well, pool noodles would be the best of these pen-like evils, but even those are difficult to handle (or buy in January).

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

As mentioned in Bill's most recent post (and pointed out in this thread), Penn does seem to be coming up again.

If we look at the tennis ball as a chance to get the name Penn out there, and now Bill's blog talking about Penn(sylvania)... How about a game relating in some way to William Penn?

He was a real estate entrepreneur... a game related to claiming and holding territory on the field?

He had good relations and treaties with the local Indian tribes, and he was a big proponent of colonial unification.... a 6v0 game?

Kind of sounds like an interesting game, regardless of whether or not this is correct.

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by RoboMaster

Well, pool noodles would be the best of these pen-like evils, but even those are difficult to handle (or buy in January).

Bill keeps telling us to buy our pool noodles now (at least he did back when they still sold them...)

[dodar]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Kind of sounds like an interesting game, regardless of whether or not this is correct.

OMG! I know next year's game! RISK!!!

[Wildcat]

Next year: 4 zones with a movable "goal" in each zone, tennis balls are places in the goals to score points. during the last 20 seconds, pool noodles will drop from above each driver station and can be placed in the goal for bonus points. bonus points also given if all goals are on your teams side of the field at the end

[S.P.A.M.er 17]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

He was a real estate entrepreneur... a game related to claiming and holding territory on the field?

Originally Posted by dodar

OMG! I know next year's game! RISK!!!

Dodar, do not pass go and do not collect $200. "Estate entrepreneur." Obliviously 2011's game is Robo-nopoly. I know what I'm doing until my teams first regional, collecting as many get out of jail free cards as i can!

[pandamonium]

maybe bill and dave are reffering to my team 1511 PENfield robotics Rolling Thunder - this years game! lol NOt sure what the game would be though haha

note: we wear camo pants not paisley shirts

[dodar]

University of PENNsylvania: one of the original, sustaining American colleges and home to the first, large-scale computer, and was found by Benjamin Franklin.

Just some food for thought

[ATannahill]

Penn ball.
Pinball?

[Cuog]

Hotel Pennsylvania, home of the HOPE(Hackers on Planet Earth) conference every other august, run by the editor of 2600 magazine. Pseudonym Emanuel Goldstein from 1984.... So telescreens are gonna be important?

[Danny Blau]

OR it could be the tennis ball projectiles used in the collegiate game, "FIRST Flight"

could be?

check it out http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=30

Danny