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NASA Will Develop a Video Game

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s18000rpm
s18000rpm Original post #1
Nov 27, 2006 at 8:55 AM
"NASA-the guys who fly to Mars and stuff- will, apparently, develop a video game of their own. And they will do this at your expense, to be more exact, they will take money out of your taxes.

According to beyondunreal.com, NASA's Learning Technologies Office got some money to develop a NASA-based game. For the time being, they are planning to develop a prototype game, which will last about 10 to 20 minutes. They are collaborating with America's Army development team and the Federation of American Scientists and they will use Epic's Unreal 3 engine.

Trough this game’s prototype, they plan to make people more familiar with space exploration, and introduce them into NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration. NASA has big plans for the future, their goal being to go back to the moon by 2025, and to get a human on Mars by 2035.

The Unreal 3 engine was designed specially for DX9 and next-gen consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3. Epic has used it to develop Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 2007. Considering the great detail in Gears of War, I guess it’s safe to say that NASA's game will be a spectacular one, but I don't understand why they have to develop it on taxpayers' expense."

Source: Softpedia News
tarey_g
tarey_g #2
Nov 27, 2006 at 11:35 AM
Finally some space game from real space guys :p that too on unreal3 engine. eagerly waiting.
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shashank_digitreader #3
Nov 27, 2006 at 9:25 PM
gud news, nice find s18000rpm.
outlaw
outlaw #4
Nov 28, 2006 at 1:27 PM
nasa-video game?????

dont they have anything else to do !!!!!

now the huge screen @ houston center can be fully utilised ;:LOL
webgenius
Dec 3, 2006 at 6:08 PM
outlaw said:
nasa-video game?????

dont they have anything else to do !!!!!

now the huge screen @ houston center can be fully utilised ;:LOL
Wonder if those will run on new Quad cores:confused:
outlaw
outlaw #6
Dec 3, 2006 at 9:05 PM
^^^

yep quad core*100 cores
Tech Geek
Dec 3, 2006 at 9:07 PM
Ofcourse it will work on Quad core. The graphics can't be so high also.
webgenius
Dec 3, 2006 at 9:22 PM
Tech Geek said:
Ofcourse it will work on Quad core. The graphics can't be so high also.
It has to be something special if NASA is into it:cool:
Tech Geek
Dec 4, 2006 at 12:50 PM
webgenius said:
It has to be something special if NASA is into it:cool:
No There's Nothin Like that.
We are the ones who are making it big.

NASA
Choto Cheeta
Dec 4, 2006 at 11:43 PM
hope it comes free.... :D

and little guyess can hear mom and dad pushing... come on now stop studying and start playing the NASA game... lol...
webgenius
webgenius #11
Dec 5, 2006 at 6:53 PM
Now EA and Ubisoft have some real competition!!!!!!
shadow slayer 2007
Dec 13, 2006 at 7:13 PM
wat they makin
space shuttle simulator or somethin with missions to reach pluto?
haha