Homeworld Developer is Making a Game for NASA | Kotaku UK – Kotaku UK (blog)

Blackbird Interactive, the studio made up of ex-Relic staff and the team who made Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, has revealed that it's working on a game for NASA.

Called Project Eagle, it's an interactive art demo of what a Mars base in 2117 might look like:

According to a post from Blackbird, Dr. Jeff Norris from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory got in touch to see if the studio would like to collaborate on the project. "The proposal was to create an interactive art demo showcasing what a base on mars could look like, with the hopes of inspiring new generations to dream of human settlement beyond planet Earth and support the exploration and colonization of our solar system," Blackbird says. "When you are a company of self proclaimed 'space nerds' this is simply an offer you cant refuse.

"Project Eagle is an interactive model of a Mars colony in Gale Crater at the base of Mount Sharp, near the original landing site of the Mars Curiosity Rover. It was created using terrain data from the HiRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and designed with input from NASA scientists about the technological and material constraints and possibilities for building human habitation on the red planet. Project Eagle is set in 2117, 44 Martian years (82.8 Earth years) after first human mission to Mars."

The demo is going to be shown off in full on Wednesday at the D.I.C.E. summit. Until then we can only stare at these lovely images:

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