Request for Proposals to Partner with NASA on the Development of a
Massive Multiplayer Online Game to support STEM Learning
NASA seeks proposals for collaboration with an organization to enhance NASA's ability
to achieve its educational goals by creating and managing a Massively Multiplayer
Online (MMO) game. The game would be fun and would enhance science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning. It is intended that this request will result
in the establishment of a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (defined as one with
no exchange of funds) that will define the full roles and responsibilities of NASA and the
proposing organization. NASA’s Learning Technologies (LT) is the requesting office.1
LT encourages respondents to view the requirements in this document as minimum set of
criteria and not as limitations. A successful MMO game that enhances STEM education
will be a challenging and innovative undertaking that will require extensive creativity,
talent, commitment and significant “outside the box” thinking from NASA and NASA’s
partner in the endeavor.
For purposes of this request, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game is considered
to be a persistent immersive synthetic environment with built in goals, achievement
system and rules. Existing examples of MMO games in industry include EverQues®t,
World of Warcraf®t and Eve Online®. (Note: NASA does not endorse or sponsor any of
these games; they are cited only by way of example.)



http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/MMO_RFP.pdf NASA is looking to partner with a developer who will
able to generate a revenue stream from this project and is searching for
creative approaches.  This call is phase one of a three part plan to bring
developers, educators and subject matter experts onto the same project.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Daniel

Daniel Laughlin, Ph.D.
Project Manager
NASA Learning Technologies
UMBC GEST
 
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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