{"id":576,"date":"2008-01-18T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/01\/18\/nasa-wants-a-massively-multiplayer-online-learning-game\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:34:08","slug":"nasa-wants-a-massively-multiplayer-online-learning-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/01\/18\/nasa-wants-a-massively-multiplayer-online-learning-game\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA wants a Massively Multiplayer Online Learning Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has released an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/procurement.nasa.gov\/cgi-bin\/eps\/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415\">RFI<\/a> to develop a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game that creates interactions that foster the creative and\u00a0problem solving skills of our youth.\u00a0 An MMO game is one where players interact with other players instead of computer controlled participants.\u00a0 Instead of five or ten players, there are hundreds or thousands.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the &#8220;massively&#8221; part.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2358\/2117661521_16e25f3cca.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This environment could permit students from all over the Internet to simulate a full scale NASA launch complete with separate launch and control centers, and even multiple spacecraft.\u00a0 In an MMO game, every person visible in the simulation is controlled by an actual person.\u00a0 This creates a much more dynamic environment because it is much less predictable.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the RFI describes the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A NASA-based MMO built on a game engine that includes powerful physics capabilities could support accurate in-game experimentation and research. It should simulate real NASA engineering and science missions in a medium that is comfortable and familiar to the majority of students in the United States today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has released an RFI to develop a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game that creates interactions that foster the creative and\u00a0problem solving skills of our youth.\u00a0 An MMO game is one where players interact with other players instead of computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/01\/18\/nasa-wants-a-massively-multiplayer-online-learning-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,336,340,26],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-collaboration","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}