Avoid the viruses, use vaccines, antidote, and other cards to protect yourself
The post-COVID-19 world may emerge very differently thanks to social distancing and no mass gatherings. Even in the time of crisis, human minds didn’t stop being creative, weird, and wonderful; inventing things to help us adjust to the ‘new normal’. What were some of the crazy and insane things that you saw during the last few months? Well, a family took all those things and put them in a game.
Play to survive the quarantine
Surviving Quarantine – A new funny, pandemic-themed card game created by a family of six. Looking at the cards, the game is essentially a play on the madness of the pandemic. Give players crazy viruses and survive with hilarious vaccines and cures.
“We saw all the things that were happening, all the hoarding that was going on, it was basically a cartoon,” said Dallas Brown, survivingquarantinegame.com
A few months before the pandemic hit, Dallas had a partnership that built an app that would help families find activities and have fun, but when the pandemic hit it all came to a screeching halt.
“The business wasn’t able to launch as we wanted and COVID hit so we were just kind of stuck at home,” said Dallas. “We decided we wanted to bring some humor to the situation for our kids and that’s when we came up with Surviving Quarantine.”
How to play
The rules are simple: avoid the viruses, use vaccines, antidote, and other cards to protect yourself from other players and survive another round.
Some of the vaccine cards feature well-known hoarding from the last few months…a hand sanitizer shower, toilet paper armor, or a water bottle fort.
The game also comes with ‘bailout’ cards, laser sharks, and even an ‘anti-vaxxer’ card which requires the player to return all vaccine cards to the deck.
Creating cards and drawing prototypes quickly became a family activity. But what started as a way to help the Browns ‘Survive Quarantine’ turned into a teaching moment.
“At first we were trying to keep everything away from the kids, because food shortages and running out of supplies in our local stores, things like that – people dying, this is such a horrible situation that no one wants to live through,” Nicole explained. “Then it’s like, how can we bring it in and make it on their level where they can understand it and not scare them and still be aware of what’s happening?”
When they saw other friends and families wanted to get a hold of the game, they decided it might be something everyone might want.
