Pox: Save the People

Pox: Save the People (also POX: SAVE THE PEOPLE) is a board game that challenges 1-4 players to stop the spread of a deadly disease that threatens to take over the community.[1] It was developed at the Tiltfactor Laboratory in collaboration with the Mascoma Health Initiative to help stop the spread of misinformation regarding the effects of vaccination.[2] An iPad app of the same name was released in 2011 and won "Best Digital Game" at Meaningful Play, 2012.[3]

POX game components

Research

The game, an entertaining way to explore how disease spreads, is noteworthy due to its use in teaching notions of Herd immunity. Research at Tiltfactor has found that players can apply concepts and systems-level understandings learned through playing POX to problems outside the game.

gollark: Approval voting is cool and good™, pretty simple, and much better than first past the post.
gollark: It's not grounded in actual formal logic or something.
gollark: What do you mean "logic"?
gollark: A good compromise leaves everyone *happy*, but sometimes isn't possible.
gollark: If you just allocated the vote *randomly*, that would satisfy neither group, and is bad.

See also
  • Zombiepox

References
  1. ACM Interview with Mary Flanagan
  2. Saslow, Rachel. "Board game touts immunization."
  3. Meaningful Play 2012 Awards
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