Building Worlds and Learning Astronomy on Facebook Part III: Testing, Launch, and Evaluation

摘要

With support from NASA and NSF, we are developing an end-to-end stellar and planetary evolution game for the Facebook platform, with external access for middle school students. We’re focusing specifically on the “sporadic play” framework popularized by games such as Farmville, where players may only take actions a few times a day, but may continue playing for months.