Plague game up for health trust prize
by Robin McKie from Technology | The Guardian on (#2D5XB)
Winter Hall in the running as Wellcome Trust announces six finalists for its Developing Beyond prize
As an entertainment, Winter Hall should be an unusual diversion for video game fans more used to glamorised violence and action drama. Players will live as characters connected by one unpleasant feature - the black death. They will explore the suffering caused by the bubonic plague and watch as medieval society struggles to cope with the devastation triggered by one of the world's worst disease epidemics.
Mass graves, religious fanaticism, and the dead carted off at night: it is the stuff of a zombie apocalypse. Yet this is no cheap piece of horror exploitation. Winter Hall is one of six games under development that have been shortlisted for a $500,000 competition backed by the Wellcome Trust.
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