robot haikus

james on 2008/03/30 01:27 of Measuring Cups

I like eugman's additional challenges, but even before he posted them I was thinking up my own challenge since I was a tad bit disappointed in 'robots.' I decided to spend a half hour writing as many game ideas as I could in haiku form.

I ended up with 11 of them - most all of them are terrible. I'm going to wait until my teammate has seen them to post them in case one ends up being our idea, the other 10 will be up for grabs!

So I'll add to eugman's list of challenges: write a haiku, then base a game entirely on those 17 syllables.

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eugman on 2008/03/30 01:39:

An empty warehouse
will be filled with robots soon.
Stolen ideas.

irskep on 2008/03/30 01:45:

stupid theme
too easy to thing of stuff
robots suck

irskep on 2008/03/30 01:46:

Fine, I'll do a real one:
humans made a.i.
didn't know it was alive
now it wants revenge

james on 2008/03/30 06:43:

ok so I sat down and took a half hour while i was eating to write these 11 haiku.. i limited myself to exactly a half hour actually so maybe that explains why they are so bad
feel free to use them for inspiration, especially the one about farming.
robot factory
the goal of this game is to
build lots of robots

ok.. that was my first one.. they get a little better (i hope)
evolution-bots
only the strong will survive
darwin would be proud

wind up robot toy
you design a path for him
get him to the goal

PythonicRobots
these programmable robots
battle to the death

a robot bomb squad
defuse and detonate bombs
protect the public

huge fucking robots
out to destroy the planet
help them or defend?

a boy and his bot
flesh and metal together
they must save the world

flying robot planes
like transformers in the air
a classic shooter

robots on the farm
irrigate and harvest crops
it's like harvest moon

inside a robot
a gear-driven platformer
repair from within

dance a robot jig
some type of irish robot
teach him many jigs

Mikle on 2008/03/30 12:39:

You just about covered every possible robot game... Now copyright it all and win :)
I was actually thinking about the one - before - last myself... It's probably more creative, and it's just too predictable to actually have a robot as a main character :)