Neil DeGrasse Tyson Presents Space Odyssey

[Shpaget]

www.spaceodysseygame.com

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is apparently working with game developers to bring us an educational exploration game which is supposed to include realistic physics, including universe expansion. Interesting.
"Be part of Dr. Tyson’s journey to create Space Odyssey, an intense gaming experience of galactic exploration and colonization. With it’s foundation based in scientifically accurate game-play, you’ll create your own celestial civilizations to compete with others in an intense game of strategy."

It's also supposed to be a proper multiplayer:
"Cooperate, compete & interact with friends and others on a galactic scale to shape the universe."

Release date is some time in 2017.

Obviously it's too early to be sure, but what say you?

Are you optimistic, or do you expect another No Man's Sky?

Edited October 5, 2016 by Shpaget

[Dman979]

Eh. Show me they've done something before I get excited.

But it's a neat website design, though.

Edited October 5, 2016 by Dman979

[WinkAllKerb'']

well he's been involved with stargate series script(s) conselling ... busy schedule ....

 

we got someone like him "here"(somewhere "else" on earth) more or less alike: http://videos.senat.fr/video.120785_57c6f80cbc4ba?video=22751 ... ... . . .

Edited October 5, 2016 by WinkAllKerb''
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[monstah]

I have the highest regards to Neil Tyson (and I've heard many times him replying to someone calling him "Dr" with "Call me NEIL!"), but I find a site about a game that says nothing about said game, yet uses the name "Dr. Neil Tyson" some 15 hundred times in a single page a little off putting 

[LordFerret]

1 hour ago, monstah said:

I have the highest regards to Neil Tyson (and I've heard many times him replying to someone calling him "Dr" with "Call me NEIL!"), but I find a site about a game that says nothing about said game, yet uses the name "Dr. Neil Tyson" some 15 hundred times in a single page a little off putting 

Indeed, he is an author and 'science communicator', but that bit about being an astrophysicist and cosmologist ... well ... at the risk of starting yet another firestorm over "people I know" ... one cosmologist doesn't exactly hold him in very high regard, nor does the top-flight 'educator' (professor) hold great faith in his being an 'astrophysicist' (as in, he wasn't exactly at the top of his class in school). Let the slings and arrows begin.

But, I agree; Is this another No Man's Sky in the brewing?

[Shpaget]

2 hours ago, LordFerret said:

(as in, he wasn't exactly at the top of his class in school)

Someones academic achievement in school is not the sole criteria I judge someone on. Yes, it shapes my opinion, just like many other things, but it's far from the most important characteristic of somebody.
Just out of curiosity, who are you talking about?

9 hours ago, Dman979 said:

Eh. Show me they've done something before I get excited.

Yeah, apart from the realistic physics and large universe claim, there is very little detail available.

[LordFerret]

6 hours ago, Shpaget said:

Just out of curiosity, who are you talking about?

I was talking about Neil DeGrasse Tyson. His academic shortfalls are documented. The rest I send in PM.

[tater]

There are certainly more interesting gigs if astrophysics than director of a planetarium. Then again, all such interesting positions practically only ever open up when someone dies, so the competition is pretty fierce.

[Shpaget]

In any case, I don't mind listening to NDGT and I don't consider him nearly as aggressive as, for example, Michio Kaku, in forcing his viewpoint.

Getting back to the game, what do you thing the devs could bring us, in terms of educational content? The universe is so huge and we know next to didly squat about any planet outsine our solar system, and not a huge amount about them either.

How do you present in an interestig way a known exoplanet, when all you know about it is orbial period and a ballpark for mass? If you go in details, you need to make those details up and that is no longer education. If some made up characteristics are presented as facts, it may introduce confusion in some.