The author shares their experience of being quarantined due to Covid and finding solace in gaming, specifically Apple Arcade.
This was not a column I had planned. Which is apt. Because I finally caught the thing that showed the world you couldn’t plan anything: Covid .
Covid banjaxed me in ways so mind-altering that it was difficult to separate fever dreams from reality for 48 hours, not helped by the fact that I was simultaneously researching a radio show which involved listening to all Pink Floyd’s albums up to and including Wish You Were Here. This would be mind-altering without the affects of Covid, paracetamol, codeine, ibuprofen and whisky, alongside the litany of anti-anxiety, antidepressant, and sleep medication I scoff down daily.
The mechanic is gorgeously simple. Pop the bubbles to get DNA points. Spend the DNA points to make your plague grow in three ways: transmission , symptoms and abilities .When you infect about 20% of the world, the bubbles pop up so fast it’s like playing Guitar Hero. This should be morally alarming but it’s too much fun, even when trying to infect enough humans to accrue enough DNA points to produce necrosis so that decapitated bodies spread my plague more readily.
On my next go-around I decide to play smarter. I select the UK as my plague base. The disease seems to start in Scotland. Just like it did with the poll tax.
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