This week, Ndemic Creations released a statement on the recent outbreak of Coronavirus after a spike of activity on their hit game and website, Plague Inc.
Plague Inc often experiences huge amounts of activity following disease outbreaks due to the nature and theme of the game, spread a bacteria, virus or disease as fast as possible throughout the world while evolving the symptoms and resistance to infect and kill the population of the world. It’s actually a lot less morbid than it sounds.
Ndemic Creations also credits this due to “people [seeking] to find out more about how diseases spread and [to] understand the complexities of viral outbreaks.”
Our website is currently offline due to very high player numbers. I'm copying our statement on the coronavirus outbreak here so people can still see it.https://t.co/pA6CUS7nJI pic.twitter.com/StXP6aemDe
— Plague Inc. / Rebel Inc. (@NdemicCreations) January 24, 2020
People have created custom scenarios inside the game that have the same qualities of the Coronavirus, and appropriately titled in the game as the 2020 Wuhan Coronavirus, that we are seeing being spread around countries at the moment, which has caused for some people creating ‘simulations’ that try to mimic the Coronavirus.
Memes relating to the situation involving Plague Inc has flooded twitter;
Damn 2020 Really went from Modern Warfare to plague inc real fast pic.twitter.com/7vX6uB3mZt
— Connor Wilson (@Connorjdubs) January 27, 2020
me n the boys in greenland bc we played plague inc and aint fuckin w the new #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/XQ4IQ17YKt
— happy shrimpy (@_bish0p_) January 28, 2020
The Coronavirus outbreak has sent many countries to desperately search for a cure. Information surrounding the disease has also been released. This includes origin, how it spreads, and the symptoms. Make sure to read up on how to spot the disease instead of using Plague Inc. as a reputable source!! https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
If you would like to play Plague Inc, check it out on Android, iOS, OSX and Microsoft Windows!
