{"id":4950,"date":"2020-03-24T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetnl.org\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:42:28","slug":"gaming-the-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/03\/24\/gaming-the-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming the Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plague Inc is a game where players try to create a pathogen that wipes out the planet. Given the Covid-19 situation, the developer was in a tough situation. The game has been around since 2012 and has a loyal player base. But it also has been banned in China due to the subject matter. To their credit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndemiccreations.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ndemic Creations (opens in a new tab)\">Ndemic Creations<\/a> has not only donated money to helping fight Covid-19, but they&#8217;ve created a new game mode where players can <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"fight pathogens (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/plague-inc-is-adding-a-game-mode-about-fighting-a-glob-1842469560\" target=\"_blank\">fight pathogens<\/a>. While not exactly a scientific Folding@Home approach, the game play is being developed with input from the WHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plague Inc is a game where players try to create a pathogen that wipes out the planet. Given the Covid-19 situation, the developer was in a tough situation. The game has been around since 2012 and has a loyal player base. But it also has been banned in China due to the subject matter. To&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}