Ndemic Founder James Vaughan said that due to the increased media attention to the Ebola epidemic, downloads of the Plague Inc. game jumped by 50%.
“I think this is the first time that the real situation in the world has caused downloads of the game,” Vaughan said.
dailymail.co.ukFrom October 10 to October 16, the game was downloaded 147 thousand times.
For comparison, in the period from September 25 to October 2, September, “only” 73.4 thousand installations of the game were made. In both cases, we are talking about the total downloads of the paid iOS version and the free Android version.
Ndemic Creations is an independent English studio founded by James Vaughan in 2012. The main and only project of the company is the mobile game Plague Inc. (2012), which James spent one year and £2,500 developing. The total downloads of the title exceeded the mark of 35 million.