[meteorite-list] NASA Invites Journalists, Video Game Experts To Review Online Game

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:00:58 -0500
Message-ID: <FEAE4AAD2B064D03A99EB1F958888500_at_ATARIENGINE2>

No doubt inspired by the Army's success in
using video games of Virtual War to recruit
personnel into a totally Non-virtual War, they
have employed the same company that created
those games, Virtual Heroes, to create a Virtual
Moon Base for what has become, increasingly,
a Virtual Space Exploration Program.

While we always seem to have a Real War for
which we need more bodies encouraged by
Virtual means, it seems too much like Virtual
Space Exploration is a substitute for a Real
Space Exploration that's getting harder to
find as the years go by.

Maybe it's a program of the Keep The Dream
Alive Department... Meanwhile, I'm so grateful
for the Robot Space Program and all our Brave
Little Toasters who are Out There.


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Invites Journalists,Video Game
Experts To Review Online Game


I look forward to trying this game out, but is anyone else struck by the
irony that in the year that the United States abandons manned space
flight, NASA comes out with a lunar exploration game

"..that inspires interest in science, technology, engineering and math
-- skills critical to achieving NASA's exploration goals." ?

I guess that does make sense since our nation's new goal in space seems
to be to sit at home on the couch and watch manned spaceflight achieved
by other nations unfold on TV.

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 6/29/10, Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] NASA Invites Journalists, Video Game Experts 
> To Review Online Game
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 10:23 AM
>
>
> June 28, 2010
>
> Sonja Alexander
> Headquarters, Washington
>
>
> 202-358-1761
> sonja.r.alexander at nasa.gov
>
>
> Mitch Gross
> Virtual Heroes, Research Triangle Park, N.C.
> 347-688-9703
> mgross at virtualheroes.com
>
> MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-097
>
> NASA INVITES JOURNALISTS, VIDEO GAME EXPERTS TO REVIEW
> ONLINE GAME
>
> WASHINGTON -- News media and video game reviewers have an
> opportunity
> to preview a new NASA video game, Moonbase Alpha, in
> advance of its
> worldwide release.
>
> Moonbase Alpha is a game with single and multiplayer
> options where
> players step into the role of an exploration team member in
> a
> futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Their mission is to
> restore critical
> systems and oxygen flow after a nearby meteor strike
> cripples a solar
> array and life support equipment.
>
> NASA will release the game on Valve's Steam network on
> Tuesday, July
> 6. The Army Game Studio produced the game with development
> by Virtual
> Heroes, a division of Applied Research Associates in
> Research
> Triangle Park, N.C.
>
> Reviewers can get early access to the game by contacting
> Mitch Gross
> of Virtual Heroes at 347-688-9703 or mgross at virtualheroes.com
> by July
> 1.
>
> The game is a proof of concept to show how NASA content
> could be
> combined with a cutting-edge game engine to produce an
> experience
> that inspires interest in science, technology, engineering
> and math
> -- skills critical to achieving NASA's exploration goals.
>
> For more information about Moonbase Alpha, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/moonbasealpha
>
> For information about NASA's education programs, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/education
>
> -end-
>
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