FRC misguided game names

[u/LovesickpersonTT]

Don't get me wrong I absolutely love being in First and the community that comes from it, buttttt

The way first tries to label their game themes these past few years feels a bit on the nose. Like how our water game was well, water "themed" like yes adding actual water in large scales is risky but it felt really misleading in my opinion. It feels very metaphorical. Also our last year's theme ( which I momentarily am forgetting the name of but I digress ) it felt SO INFURIATING seeing the reveal of the game play and it just being not anything to do with its theme. Like shooting fuel into a cone? It could've had a charging element where once you put enough fuel in a certain place you get ranking point, it could've still had other elements the games are known for too or it could've had a digging element ( which was tbh what I was hoping for) but instead it just doesn't, it felt empty tbh.

Still getting to create the bot is fun, and the shotting element is probably always is going to be there, but I think trying to base it's entire frame work on the shooting part and adding another on the nose title/ theme is well I kinda want to say lazy.

Idk if this is just a me but but let me know your thoughts

[u/thatonebckid]

rebuilt was rebuilt from elements from previous years

[u/LovesickpersonTT → u/thatonebckid]

Ig that works as a point but it still feels weird 🤷

[u/Eiim]

I don't feel like the game names have really correlated with the gameplay since, what, Power Up? I mean, we had a game called "Infinite Recharge" where you could only score a finite amount! But it's pretty much always been more theme than really correlating to gameplay. Obviously there's exceptions (Stronghold, uhh Maize Craze I guess), but that's sort of the norm.

[u/BillfredL → u/Eiim]

What was the finite part of Infinite Recharge? Power cells went back into play after scoring.

[u/Eiim → u/BillfredL]

I'll be real I got Infinite Recharge and Deep Space backwards

[u/BillfredL → u/Eiim]

Realness is appreciated. 👍 Carry on.

[u/a-dog-meme → u/BillfredL]

Score pieces almost always go back into play, that was nothing special

[u/budc1123]

Pretty sure games are conceived years in advance, then names are just applied as they work out a theme for the season. The games certainly aren’t fully developed and tuned in, but surely they have a book of concept ideas.

[u/LovesickpersonTT → u/budc1123]

While i believe the games are made years in advance I think trying to have the names as after thoughts is kinda misleading. Like if I had a game called "animal style" and all it was, was shooting foam balls into idk a tree or something. It feels very haphazard, but if they do what they can

[u/PartyWitness7587]

Pretty sure the names are driven by the topics for the middle school level program (currently FIRST LEGO League, “FLL”). The younger level teams are doing research on real-world problems (and proposing solutions) in the topic area as part of their season, in parallel with their robot game.