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Currently 'game-based learning' is one of many promising approaches in education. Despite constant discussions of the benefits and negative effects of videogames, their leverage in school is becoming commonplace. One of the most promising videogame genres in terms of the breadth of learning goals and overall complexity is the massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game. In this paper, an example of designing a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) with learning goals in the STEM area is presented. The game "Allotrop:Reaction" (under construction) combines “shooter”, “crafting” and “game economy” and contains model engineering and science investigation tasks based on selected physics and chemistry concepts from 7th-8th grade Russian school curricula (13-14 year-old children). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]