SETI: The Drake Equation
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SETI announces game jam to enlist developers in the search for alien life

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The SETI Institute is announcing today a “game jam” that will encourage game developers to create games that actively promote the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

SETI Institute
SETI Institute

Mountain View, Calif.-based SETI has a mission to find evidence of alien life on other planets. It collects a lot of data, and it wants its scientists to provide game developers with access to that data. It wants game creators to focus on making games for the Drake Equation, which is used to estimate the number of active, communicative intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.