Programmers Deploy Cellphone Game to Support Hong Kong Protests
A Hong Kong-based mobile software company has created an app that allows people to indulge in both gaming and an interest in all things Occupy. The game, available as an Android app with an iOS version that has been submitted to Apple for review, features protesters facing off against thugs, police officers with tear gas and pepper spray, anti-Occupy demonstrators wearing blue ribbons and a character who resembles the city’s chief executive, Leung Chun-ying.
The goal of the game is to collect yellow ribbons, a symbol of the protest movement, and to deploy umbrellas (another protest symbol), durian fruit, birthday cakes and cash to ward off the forces opposed to the demonstrations. Mr. Leung, who sports wolf ears and a tail, a reference to one nickname for Hong Kong’s top official used by his critics, can be stopped only with bars of gold.
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