Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI) is an online multiplayer game used by the
US Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
Office of Naval Research and other
U.S. government agencies to perform online wargames in order to study various problems and hypothetical scenarios.
Overview
MMOWGLI was launched by ONR and the
Naval Postgraduate School in order to blend gaming and social media tools and to crowdsource solutions. It was initially launched with an application addressing a piracy scenario off the coast of Somalia. The idea received coverage from national news media. More than 16,000 users registered from various national security communities, academia and the general public. Round one of MMOWGLI gameplay started on May 31, 2011 with 2,000 players, and resulted in over 800 players registering and exchanging ideas.
Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet
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See also
* MMORPG
* Government crowdsourcing
* United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
References
External links
Organizational websites
Official website
:
Example of actual game session, with cards, threads and rankings.
Official Twitter feed
Update on latest MMOWGLI game
article at Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation Institute at Naval Postgraduate School.
MMOWGLI
article at Institute for the Future website.
Youtube video
from ONR
Articles and media coverage
MMOWGLI: An Experiment in Generating Collective Intelligence
dodlive.mil, April 28, 2011.
Wannabe SEALs Help U.S. Navy Hunt Pirates In Massively Multiplayer Game
fastcompany.com, May 10, 2011.
Navy using online game to mine ideas: Exercise is open to active, reserve and civilian forces
By PHILLIP MOLNAR, Herald Staff Writer, 11/04/2013.
U.S. Navy Uses MMO to Train for Real-World Piracy
gamepolitics.com, May 10, 2011.
Crowdsourcing
United States Navy
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games