Demo For NASA MMO Coming In January 84
News of the upcoming NASA MMO, Astronaut: Moon, Mars, and Beyond, has been scarce since its announcement in 2008, but NASA recently revealed that a "mini demo game" is coming in January that will show off some of what they've completed so far. "Moon Base Alpha utilizes actual NASA Constellation program design details developed by NASA for mankind’s return to the Moon in 2020. Timelines in the much anticipated Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond MMO will be set even farther in the exciting future (2035+), but the ability to explore our own near-future moon missions is also planned for in the forthcoming game facilitated by the NASA Learning Technologies and Innovative Partnerships Programs." They're provided a slideshow and a brief video, and one of the developers spoke about the game with Edge last month.
Re:I thought the funding for this was cut? (Score:3, Interesting)
From one of the articles "one of the developers spoke about the game [edge-online.com] seems to cover this. Virtual Heroes, the producer of American's Army, is providing this game. It seems like they have already produced a couple space sims ("Race to Mars" and "Virtual Astronaut"), but I might be wrong.
Re:Moon Base Alpha? (Score:3, Interesting)
It bugs me that Hollywood didn't jump on the occasion in 1999 to make a Space: 1999 movie and set the release date on september 13th. They've been into remakes of old things for the last two decades or so, would've fitted the bill perfectly ten years ago.