Author: Bijan Stephen
The video game Plague Inc. allows you to play as a disease, with the goal being to wipe out humanity. Ndemic Creations, the game’s makers, however, are very pro-human: they’ve just donated $250,000 to help fund COVID-19 relief and are now adding a mode to Plague Inc. that lets players stop an outbreak.
“Eight years ago, I never imagined the real world would come to resemble a game of Plague Inc. or that so many players would be using Plague Inc. to help them get through an actual pandemic,” said James Vaughan, Plague Inc.’s creator and Ndemic Creations’ founder, according to the website. That is hilarious! I didn’t have “pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card either.
The new mode came out of donation discussions between Ndemic Creations, the...
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The video game Plague Inc. allows you to play as a disease, with the goal being to wipe out humanity. Ndemic Creations, the game’s makers, however, are very pro-human: they’ve just donated $250,000 to help fund COVID-19 relief and are now adding a mode to Plague Inc. that lets players stop an outbreak.
“Eight years ago, I never imagined the real world would come to resemble a game of Plague Inc. or that so many players would be using Plague Inc. to help them get through an actual pandemic,” said James Vaughan, Plague Inc.’s creator and Ndemic Creations’ founder, according to the website. That is hilarious! I didn’t have “pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card either.
The new mode came out of donation discussions between Ndemic Creations, the...
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