NASA MMO Role Playing Game Update

NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free, Slashdot

“It seems that the educational MMORPG NASA’s proposing will no longer have a budget of $3 million. Instead, any prospective development partner is being asked to create and maintain the MMORPG for free under a ‘non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement’. It won’t be a one-sided agreement, though. From NASA’s RFP: ‘In exchange for a collaborator’s investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics], NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities.”

NASA Asking For Free MMO? Hardly. Game Cyte

“When several prominent sources reported that NASA had lost funding for its upcoming educational MMO yet continued to seek game developers willing to work for free, we became curious. Why would NASA shoot themselves in the foot, yet continue to hobble along as if it never happened? But we soon found out the entire story lacked merit.”

Budget Slashed On NASA’s Educational MMO, Wired

“Like much of the space program, NASA Learning Technologies (an education-focused subset of the space agency) is facing budget cuts that leave the future of the group’s previously revealed educational online game in question.”

NASA Solicitation: Partner With NASA on the Development of a MMO Game to Support STEM Learning

NASA Offers Educational Online Gaming Opportunity to Developers