Ndemic creations
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VIDEO GAMES – There are games to escape reality, and others. The “Plague Inc.” app, which aims to destroy humanity by spreading a deadly virus around the world, has become the most downloaded app in China today.
A resounding success in a country which has been hit head-on by a mysterious virus which has infected more than 800 people and left at least 25 dead, according to a latest report released on Thursday 23 January.
The inventors of the game, Ndemic Creations, noted this popularity in such a context. They explained on Twitter, in particular, that they were receiving a lot of questions about the new coronavirus and that it was safer to turn to WHO for the best answers.
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“We created this game specifically so that it is realistic and informative without surfing on the very serious problems of the real world”, assures the company in a press release which notes that with each epidemic the game knows a jump of downloads . “However, this remains a game and not a scientific model, the current situation with the coronavirus is very real and affects a huge number of people”.
“Plague Inc.”, a strategy game, gives the player complete control over a disease that must be transformed into a true global epidemic before scientists can successfully develop a treatment.
Downloaded more than 120 million times since its creation in 2012, it also had a peak in popularity as the Ebola virus wreaked havoc in Africa in 2014. Ndemic Creations then asked participants to donate money to come to those affected and raised more than $ 75,000, the company said.
“Plague Inc.” was also praised in the United States by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for the “non-traditional route used to educate the public about epidemics and disease transmission”.
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