A Video Game that Teaches — Plague Inc

The mobile game, Plague Inc, has utterly infected me and I am proud to be it’s victim.

Why?!

Because it’s the perfect combination of Fun and Learning.

1. A clear and meaningful goal. To kill the world with a tailor-made disease.
2. Fascinating content. How diseases are transmitted. How they mutate and develop resistances. How epidemics are stopped in their tracks.
3. Action! It’s not all strategy. There are quick-reflex harvests of valuable gene points that you can invest in your disease. And you’re racing the clock as the world tries to cure your pet contagion before it wipes everyone out.
4. Atmosphere. Haunting music and chilling sound effects that adapt as the world changes before your eyes.
5. Engaging interface. A world map at your fingertips. Crystal clear pathways along which you can develop your disease. Visual cues that tell the story of how your epidemic is progressing, from malevolent red spots that spread across the map to blood red planes and boats that indicate an infected passenger is on board, carrying your contagion to previously healthy shores.

Let me just recap those vital ingredients that, when prepared and cooked right, can produce ‘Fun’ and ‘Learning’ in equal measures.

Meaningful Goal

Fascinating Content

Action!

Atmosphere

Engaging Interface

Please, oh please, let us make more games like Plague Inc!