Atlanta's water shortage has a video game
Local designer Sarah Lawrence always wanted to make a game about her hometown. Along came a boil water advisory. Sarah Lawrence, a graphic designer and creative project worker from Atlanta, has created a video game about the city's infrastructure during the recent water shortage. The game, "Aquageddon," uses a rotating inventory of pipes to build out Atlanta's infrastructure before water overwhelms the system. Players can fix broken pipes and swap out pipes if they contain no water. The free game was designed by Lawrence and developed with a developer partner, who worked from Thursday to Sunday to publish the game. It plays best on desktop and tablet.
Publicerad : 11 månader sedan förbi Thomas Wheatley i Tech
My bud Sarah Lawrence is an Atlanta graphic designer and perpetual creative project accomplish-er. She's always wanted to make a mini-game about Atlanta but never had an opportunity that made sense. The latest: Then the Atlanta water crisis happened. Why it matters: If the five-day water shortage turned you into an infrastructure nerd, consider "Aquageddon" an early Christmas present.
How it works: The game's free and simple: Use your rotating inventory of pipes to build out Atlanta's infrastructure before water overwhelms the system.
• Remember to fix broken pipes along the way and watch out for those metal plates. You can also swap out pipes you've installed if they don't contain any water.
Zoom out: Lawrence creates "silly little apps" using Google Sheets to react to news events and board games to summarize research projects.
What they're saying: "When the water main broke and I was sitting around on day three of waiting for my giant stock pot of non-potable water to boil, a friend texted me and said this might be the game theme I've been looking for," she told Axios.
• "I immediately pictured the 'Pipe Mania' game from the late 1980s and ran with it."
• She got the idea on Monday, spent Tuesday designing the game and found a developer partner on Wednesday. They worked from Thursday to Sunday, when they published the game.
The bottom line: The game plays best on desktop and tablet.
Ämnen: Gaming