FIRST Overdrive Simulation

Technical IT / Communications
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5th Gear was introduced at the NASA/VCU regional in Richmond, VA, and shown again at another robotics competion today in Fairfax, VA.

We shared a couple pictures last time, but this time we shot video of the event so people could see the game in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVxs330LlDw

  • 3d simulation of Overdrive
  • 6 players compete together (as overdrive: 3 players on two alliances)
  • Each player drives a robot with an XBox 360 controller
    *]Developed by a few Lockheed Martin mentors in their spare time
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i totally like it, what apps were needed to run this? is there anywhere that i can download this simulation from? and was this run via a local network?

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looks like a good way to get kids interested.

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Awesome! I want to play!

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It was written in Microsoft XNA, so it requires a few downloads to get it set up. Unfortunately its not available yet, and its not anywhere near polished enough for public download anyways, but we’re working on it. There is a lot of discussion going on behind the scenes.

This was run on a LAN using 7 laptops (6 player machines and one server).

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Folks,

See this picture-initiated thread for some other comments about the simulation we developed.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30906

See this thread for some other news about FIRST game simulations.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?p=716814

Blake

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As soon as I saw “Use XBOX360 Controllers” I had the feeling that it was written in XNA. XNA is a great developer program built with C# (it’s sorta like Java).

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Folks,

As these simulation threads pop up I am trying to keep track of them and supply us all a road map of URLs that will let us pool our talents when/if we ever want to do that. Here is my list so far:

Blake

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A couple new items:

  1. The Overdrive Simulation/Game will be on display at IRI this weekend - If you are there - Give it a spin.

  2. This looks interesting http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=751732&highlight=overdrive+simulation#post751732

Blake

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Some more branches on the tree

http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home

http://code.google.com/p/sketchyphysics/

Blake

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Folks

Let’s use this Thread for 2009 5th Gear discussions on Chief Delphi (5th Gear thread)

Blake (One of the 5th Gear developers)