U.S. Navy turns to multiplayer games for ideas on fighting pirates
The U.S. Navy seems to have run out of ideas of how to fight Somali pirates, which is why it’s turning to crowdsourcing.
I mean, where better to get strategic ideas of how to kick some pirate booty than from a giant multiplayer online game?
With a mouthful of a name, the Massive Multiple Online WarGame Leveraging the Internet (or MMOWGLI for short), is designed to “encourage out of the box thinking about contemporary pirate issues.”
In the game, players act as naval officers or commercial ship crews to fight pirates in situations similar to real life pirate-fighting escapades. And you don’t have to just be a “good guy,” you can of course be a pirate if you so choose.