The ACTUV Tactics Simulator, released by DARPA just a few days ago, is a simulator challenging players to “keep track of elusive submarines” in ways that have “never been thought of before”.
“Can you outsmart an enemy submarine commander and keep him from escaping into the deep?” DARPA asks.
Players will be put in charge of the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV), basically a sub-hunting drone. The submarines they’ll be chasing are working from AI that incorporates “actual evasion techniques” used by real commanders.
It’s more than a cerebral challenge; it appears to feature single- and multiplayer campaigns, and leaderboards. And it’s free.
DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Crowdsourced Simulator [Operation Reality]
Dan Hughes
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 7:21 PMFreaking awesome idea but helping the US Navy does seem a bit scary.
I mean, if one day I am being chased by a submarine and said submarine catches up to and subsequently murders me, I shall be mightily infuriated at myself for playing this game.
I think I might avoid this one, just in case.
Warlok
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 8:47 PMDownload link does not work for me.
Matthew
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 9:37 PMinteresting, however i will play the game i want to play it. Just blow the fish out of water :P
Reoh
Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 6:10 AMYou sunk my battleship. )=
Smart thinkin’ though, I’ve always toyed with the idea of getting people to work through a game interface so it was fun, competitive, challenging, and more productive. ;)