NASA Creating Online Multiplayer Video Game

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http://www.livescience.com/space/090219-nasa-mmo.html
NASA Creating Online Multiplayer Video Game
By Jeremy Hsu, Staff Writer
posted: 19 February 2009 02:36 pm ET

Space explorers, ready your virtual engines — three game developers have signed on to create NASA's massively multiplayer online video game (MMO), called "Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond."

NASA plans to let Virtual Heroes, Project Whitecard and Information in Place take the lead in creating a game that emphasizes fun first and foremost. The game community sent in 800 pages worth of responses to NASA's initial outreach on developing an MMO.

"The single biggest point that was pushed forward by the game community was that you have to let game design lead the development," said Daniel Laughlin, project manager for NASA Learning Technologies at the agency's Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center in Maryland. "It's easy to build a game that's no fun. It's hard to build a game that's successful and fun."
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Check out the many comments on the link above. -- LRK -

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http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/
After extensive review by internal and external experts, Learning Technologies and the Innovative Partnership Program Office have selected Project Whitecard, Information in Place and Virtual Heroes to move forward with the NASA MMO effort. We are currently in negotiations and will update the MMO site as we move forward. Also, we would like to thank everyone who participated and responded to this initiative.
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Virtual Heroes:
http://www.virtualheroes.com/

Project Whitecard:
http://www.projectwhitecard.com/

Information in Place:
http://www.informationinplace.com/

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