Pandemic game kills time
A GAME designed to inform people about the way that flu spreads is travelling around the net like, well, swine flu.
The game, which was designed by Dutch researchers at the Erasmus Medical Centre and created by Ranj Serious Games, goes by the title The Great Flu and asks players to tackle a growing pandemic, hopefully finishing it with something other than flamethrowers. It is nice looking and strangely addictive - or do we mean infective? And was partially funded by drug heavyweight GlaxoSmithKline.
A brief introduction starts the game informing you that you must assume the role of the Leader of the World Pandemic Control before warning, "The fate of the world depends on you", which is worrying since we are already in a basement with some tinned food and a shotgun.
Players get a choice of a few infections, which are separated by difficulty levels. Once the game starts it is then up to them to provide funds, equipment, drugs, skills, political resources, and other tools to help solve the problem. All the while the count of infected people slowly rises or falls depending on how well you are doing.
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Now that's a addictive pandemic game. What I learned from that game: When a deadly pandemic appears, MOVE TO MADAGASCAR!
It does not have zombies or even mere alien monsters. No guns, no bombs, no grenades. No fun.
Are they still trying to fix peoples' attention on this waste-of-time swine flu? That'll be one *boring game* if it only features as many deaths (or lack thereof) this swine flu dud "pandemic" has caused.
I think I killed more zombies in one level of another game than the swine flu has killed since it was first announced.
"A GAME designed to inform people about the way that flu spreads is travelling around the net like, well, swine flu."
If it's really spreading like swine flu, why are you talking about it at all? Are you saying the site only gets a few hits a day and is less trouble to win than a regular pandemic game?
Swine flu is such a fail, the world might actually be HEALTHIER if all the flu viruses were replaced with swine flu variants.
Just for the hell of it, since people who worry about this should be more worried about AIDS:
Don't let yourself get injected with dirty needles and don't let anybody stick their schlong in you without wearing protection, and you will have almost no chance of catching AIDS. This goes for all males and females. Ignore the idiots who say it's a gay disease, because non-druggy lesbians have almost no chance of catching it.
There, I made is this web page 10 times more useful than it was.
(still an awesome site, it's just fun to act like a jackass without anyone being able to yell at me ;) )