{"id":4455,"date":"2010-07-26T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2010-07-22T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T12:00:10","slug":"moonbase-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Moonbase Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has developed a commercial-quality video game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/offices\/education\/programs\/national\/ltp\/games\/moonbasealpha\/index.html\">Moonbase Alpha<\/a>, which requires players to get a lunar base&#8217;s life support back online running before everyone suffocates.<\/p>\n<p>The game imagines a base in the year 2020; a meteor strike disables its life-support systems, and one or more players must get it running in 25 minutes.  The game requires an understanding of the base&#8217;s systems, and the use of robots in areas that are too dangerous for humans.  The project is a proof-of-concept to determine whether a video game can inspire interest in real-life science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a trailer for the game:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"278\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jI8_9eN-2Uo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jI8_9eN-2Uo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has developed a commercial-quality video game called Moonbase Alpha, which requires players to get a lunar base&#8217;s life support back online running before everyone suffocates. The game imagines a base in the year 2020; a meteor strike disables its life-support systems, and one or more players must get it running in 25 minutes. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}