“The Great Flu”, Educative Swine Flu Computer Game
Posted on Aug 20, 2009 by Reena Daruwalla | Comments 0
It was a only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of the “The Great Flu”, which is a computer game based on the current Swine Flu Pandemic sweeping the globe.
This is supposed to be an educational game designed to make people think about actual situations relating to Swine flu where they would be expected to react; reactions that have repercussions.
Developed by virologists at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, this computer game permits you to pick and let loose a flu virus on the world. Then you have a budget allocation o f $2 billion budget to contain it through available public health moves.
According to an AFP report, players must choose whether or not to stockpile anti-viral drugs and deploy research teams to new areas of outbreak as the number of infections and deaths rises and more countries are affected.
In the game you can shut down airports, schools, markets; however you can face a riot if you don’t make the right moves and end up killing too many people! You have to take decisions like how and where to distribute face masks, and make use of vaccine stock piles.
The game website is done up in snazzy black and red, its eye catching and on the home page you have links to a few very useful Swine flu related sites where you get a lot of factual information about the disease and its spread.
You have a lot of viruses to play about with: There is Gamers’ flu, Jabali virus, Golden Flu, Broadway Virus and Kai Virus as you can see in the screenshot I took of the game on the site. You are given instructions and can play for free. You can choose the difficulty level as well. So happy gaming, maybe you’ll learn something while you’re at it….
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