About Stop the Pandemic

Stop the Pandemic is a scientific game challenge that investigates the effects of viruses on populations in an accessible and interactive way. It has been published by EPFL and developed by game studio Gbanga. The original simulation was created by Ellsworth Campbell, Isaac Bromley and Prof. Marcel Salathé at Penn State University and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Start

Simply hit the red «Start!» button above.

Guided tour

Start the tutorial with the red «Start!» button. Alternatively, when you are in the open game, you can click the link «Guided tour» on the right side of the game area.

Open game

You can start the interactive game in open mode by hitting the red «Start!» button, or, alternatively, when you are in the guided tour, you can click the link «Skip tutorial» on the right side of the game area.

Share and embed

You can share the game easily by using the share button in the game.

You can also embed it directly in your blog post adding an iframe with our /embed.php page.

Glossary

• Network

  A group of interconnected people.

• Connection

  A relationship in which a person or thing is linked or associated with something else.

• Quarantine

  A period of isolation in which people who have been exposed to the virus are placed.

• Social distancing

  The practice of maintaining a greater than usual physical distance from other people or of avoiding direct contact with people or objects in public places in order to minimize exposure and reduce the transmission of infection.

• Contact tracing

  The practice of identifying and monitoring individuals who may have had contact with an infectious person as a means of controlling the spread of a communicable disease.

• Contact tracing app

  An application such as the one developed by EPFL and the ETHZ to allow contact tracing in the population. The goal of the app is to alert users after they’ve been in contact with someone contagious with COVID-19.