SETI announces game jam to enlist developers in the search for alien life

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.

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.