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Andy Meek
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- The gamemakers behind the hit smartphone title Plague Inc. have released a new "cure" mode that feels incredibly timely, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
- The new "cure" mode was released just a few days ago, and it puts you in charge of a disease outbreak not unlike the coronavirus pandemic we're living through now.
- The gamemakers received input from groups like the World Health Organization, and Plague Inc. requires players to constantly invest and reinvest their resources in critical tools like launching education campaigns, contact tracing efforts, enforcing face mask mandates and quarantines, and more, in order to control your pandemic before a vaccine is developed.
Over the weekend, I decided to download a smartphone game I'd never attempted to play before, from Ndemic Creations -- the team behind the improbable hit title Plague Inc., a game for iOS and Android devices that has just introduced an incredibly timely new game mode. Whereas, before, players attempted to spread an infectious disease far and wide, in the game's new "cure mode" you essentially take on the mantle of something like the World Health Organization -- and you race to keep the plague in check long enough for a vaccine to be developed in-game, but all while commercial flights are still zipping around the world map, seeding the virus across the planet. You accumulate points based on taking the right actions, and you "spend" those points on all the myriad tasks needed to bring a pandemic under control -- building hospitals, running contact tracing programs, enforcing face mask mandates and lockdowns. You get the idea.
Having never played the game before -- and intrigued by the fact that not only has it been praised by the CDC, but the gamemakers also received input from the WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations -- I decided to give this pandemic simulator a try. Living through months of the real-world impact of the same kinds of decisions you make in this game thanks to the coronavirus pandemic -- well, needless to say, I was quickly immersed. I found myself wanting to yell at the screen to make these insane people stop taking flights all over the world, while I'm trying to put out pandemic brushfires to try and control the disease which I randomly decided to name "COVID-19." Bottom line, this game blew me away.
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