people of the pandemic

A hyperlocal cooperative simulation game.


A global pandemic has arrived in your backyard. This virus can be transmitted before symptoms appear, and it has the potential to spread throughout the entire community—unless you take action now through physical distancing. Every week is crucial for saving thousands of lives.

But you can’t do this alone! It’ll take the cooperation of the entire community to slow the spread of this disease. Together, you’ll have to find ways to meet your individual needs while limiting your outings as much as possible.

You will play alongside a team of real people.

Your teammates have played before you, and have made the weekly decisions you are about to. Their decisions and yours together will determine how frequently people in your community leave their homes each week, for the duration of five weeks.

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You will play alongside 0 other real people.
Team name: 5 to 32 characters, letters, numbers and dashes only.

Your team's outings by activity, averaged across 5 weeks

01234567 Went out Times
For Food
For Exercise
For Small gatherings
For Large gatherings
You
Your teammates
NPC*

*for teams with less than 20 people, NPCs will fill in and go about business as usual.

Your collective decisions will determine how many lives are lost or saved.
Together, your goal is to save as many lives as possible.


To start, enter your zip code* or choose a community size.

*unfortunately, we currently only support US zip codes.
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We’ll pull real data to set up the game with your community’s actual population and number of available hospital beds.


Disclaimer

While the disease spread in this game is modeled after COVID-19, it uses a simplified model not intended to be a precise forecast. We want to emphasize that we're modeling a virus, not the virus.

For more details, please see our full methodology.