Essential Workers

Essential Workers is a cooperative online multiplayer game about a community working together to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. Players must balance their personal safety against the necessity of keeping society running. If anyone loses, everyone loses.

Please go to the following URL to play Essential Workers:
http://dilac-game.herokuapp.com/schedule/jordanTesting-5-31-20.html

INSTRUCTIONS TO START GAME:
1. Essential Workers is an online multiplayer game and requires four players in order to play. Click on the link above to start.
2. To start the game, one player must be the host. 
3. To be the host, the player must click on "Create New Room Code" in the opening screen.
4. In the following screens, the host player will see a Room Code in the bottom that they must share with other players. (Room Code is also available at the bottom right when playing the game for reference)
5. The other players must enter the shared Room Code in their opening screens and then click on "Join Game"
6. Be sure to read the rules (Rent costs 35 Wealth at the end of each week!)
7. Enjoy the game!

Design and Development Team: 
Aditya Anupam, Colin Stricklin, Kevin Tang, Jordan Graves, Michael Vogel

Principal Investigators:
Janet Murray

As part of Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center at Georgia Tech (https://dilac.iac.gatech.edu/)