Arden: The World of Shakespeare

Arden: The World of Shakespeare was a proposed massively multiplayer online game to be created by a team led by Edward Castronova of Indiana University.
The project was sponsored by a $250,000 MacArthur Foundation grant. The game was intended for experimental economics, in addition to teaching players about the works of William Shakespeare. It was released in incomplete form as a plugin to the Neverwinter Nights game due to lack of funds and dissatisfaction with the gameplay.