Game Help Soldiers Confront Somali Pirates

Game is widely used for training, simulation and things 'heavy' other. This time, the game used to help soldiers deal with Somalia pirates.

This was done the United States Navy (U.S. Navy) uses a game platform mass. Platform was named MMOWGLI (Massive Multiplayer Online WarGame Leveraging the internet).

As quoted Tekertin.com from FastCompany on Wednesday (05/11/2011), the game will bring together players from the military and civilian. The number of players who could be accommodated 1,000-person.

Results of research a few years it will be put into use on May 16, 2011. It is expected that this effort will help the U.S. Navy get input effective ways of dealing with Somali pirates that the craze.

Although MMOWGLI that will come out in May 2011 focused on Somali pirates, the same platform is designed to be adapted to other situations.

"We hope MMOWGLI will help us understand what happens when your knowledge combined with observations and actions of other players - will the combination of an idea that could change the situation or solution, or will this platform to teach us something about the thought process," said Larry Schutte , director of innovation at the Office of Naval Research.

The road games

MMOWGLI players will be part of the anti-piracy task force. In the early stages, the player must escort ships through waters where the pirates used to action.

First of all the players have to handle the logistics of weaponry on the ship, plans to face up to challenges such as pirates attack the jurisdiction of financial and other difficulties.

Then, the pirate attacks will begin and players will see if their plans succeed or not and how their subsequent actions.

Players also will cooperate in missions such as hostage rescue, rush into the nest pirates to provide humanitarian assistance in Somalia.

At the end of the game, players should be able to regulate in detail how the hostage rescue scenarios and pirate attacks.

In addition, players can also play from the pirates. However, the game will always be supervised by the 'games master' which ensures a certain scenario is still running.