Neil deGrasse Tyson is making an educational video game about space exploration – New York Daily News

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 2:16 PM

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is lending his increasingly famous name, and his expertise, towards the creation of a space video game that will be part mind-blowing adventure and part lecture hall.

The "awe-inspiring" game, Space Odyssey, based on real physics, real science, will deal with both exploration and colonization with Neil deGrasse Tyson's voice as your guide on various science-based missions.

It gives the gamer the ability to make planets, solar systems and even life. The built-in missions of the game will challenge players to figure out problems and explore while learning actual science.

"Develop planets, colonize worlds, nurture species, mine elements, build robots and discover unique life-forms as you coordinate with others in an intense game of real-time strategy," the Kickstarter for the project says.

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Based on real-life plans to one day explore further, players begin their "Space Odyssey" journey on Proxima B the closest known planet to Earth outside of our solar system, about four light years away.

Solo gamers or those playing online with friends on a Mac or a P.C. will then learn science-based physics, biology and chemistry while developing an outpost and colony on this planet and advancing the human race in space.

The companies behind the creation of the game, Big Red Button and Space Media Ventures, combine VR (virtual reality) technology with the visions of producers and comic creators who previously worked on other projects like "God of War 3" and the X-Men game, "Wolverine." Tyson will largely consult on the science within the game, ensuring its authenticity.

"I have no patience for people who say, 'I don't want the laws of physics to constrain me,'" Tyson said at a recent E3 video game convention in Los Angeles.

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The Kickstarter for the project has a goal of $314,159 that its hoping to reach by July 29 it's currently about a third of the way there.

Space Odysseys fundraising site invites gamers and fans to invest in its creation so they can then help "build the game suggest ideas, ask questions and participate in (its) development.

The game is hoping to launch in January 2019.

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