Now that the World Championships are over, I think it would be fun to speculate what the next game could be. Will it be something like Lunacy (Moon Landing Anniversary) or Breakaway (World Cup) or something completely out there? My personal opinion is some sort of shooter game, as games usually go in some sort of cycle (shooter, misc. hang/moving). Thoughts?
The game might get more complicated in electronic features next year if the GDC can meet their goal of finalizing the game by August. Bill acknowledges on his blog that they need to make the game much earlier so there is more time for testing e.g. make the minibot towers work week 1 as an example.
Imagine how much agonizing game hints he could deliver if that happens.
Gamewise I think one based off chemistry would be neat. Maybe 2012 honors the element Carbon. Not really sure where to go with this but its an idea.
I dunno…they’ve run out of mainstream sports to do.
ie. 2006 - Aim High (Basketball)
2007 - Rack 'n Roll (Not a sport)
2008 - Overdrive (NASCAR)
2009 - Lunacy (Not a sport)
2010 - Breakaway (Soccer)
2011 - Logomotion (Not a sport)
2012 - Sport?
Discussing next year’s game already?
Please save it for another month or so, otherwise Dave will make my head hurt.
I think one thing is for sure, guessing isn’t going to do anything, we can all sit here and speculate, but by January no-one will have gotten it, not even with the game hints. There is one thing that does seem to be a sure thing, which is the minibot aspect. From what they said at the beginning of the season, at kickoff, this will be the endgame/part of the game for FIRST for a while. I think that after the season, most people actually liked the minibots/minibot race. However, I think this alternate would have been better for actually using Tetrix control components…
in reply to the sport theme, there is still hockey and football… i would LOVE to see a hockey game with that, the possibilities are outstanding. like maybe a unified game manipulator (not like the lunacy wheels of death) and then you get into some really cool designs to manipulate it to scoring points… idk how the new minibot idea would fit in
Sorry to break it to you man, but Dave is no longer on the GDC.
Oh. Oops.
I’m sure he’ll entice most of us with a red/blue/yellow/green/purple/teal/white/orange/grey/brown/red-purple/and the list goes on… herring when Chief Delphi forget he’s not at GDC at some point.
My guess is a game similar to aim high but with footballs. And then, of course, some sort of minibot endgame
Common guys, we all know next years game got something with water involved in it 
Hockey involves frozen water! But the last time they tried something other than carpet…well…we know what happened there… lol
Isnt it a bit early to start speculating? No matter how much you think you can figure out, we will all know at the same time come kickoff.
Bill did say this on FRC live, WATER MINI BOTS!?!!
This would be something to see…
My guess would be another hopper game, 2009 is the only one in recent history (2006 before that) lots of small game pieces again would be fun. Minibots will most likely return but with the need of logic and tetrix parts.
I would guess a storing/hording game. There hasn’t been one of those since 2009.
I would also wager that balls will be the gamepiece, but other interesting things to play with could be:
Footballs, hockey pucks, batons, small rectangular shapes, etc…
Bring back the Tetrahedra! Or the Bins from Stack Attack!
For future endgames, I think it would be interesting for minibots to have to navigate through a maze the fastest.
While were on the topic of older games why not bring back the corn field from ‘Maize Craze’ . And I believe we already did (american)Football…‘Ramp N’ Roll’?
I did like '09 having the goals be trailers attatched to the robots.
'11 wasn’t bad either:D
That would be pretty neat. I agree with somehow having programming being in future minibot containing games since this year most teams didn’t really need it.
Frisbees. That is all.
Seriously, they would be interesting to use because of their shape and tendency to fly. maybe have to shoot Frisbees into a goal.
How about a combination of most of the games where your robot drives on a plastic floor covered in corn dragging a spiders rack with a hole in the center for moon rocks all the while driving laps over see-saws and shooting soccer balls into holes above the drivers stations…or not. I’m somewhat interested in another game like 2001 where teams of 4 set the bar for other teams.
On a side note, a really cool end game would be robots that had to climb this years minibot poles without the towers tipping over…