Covid-19: Lockdown inspires Italian boy to create coronavirus video game


Lupo displays ‘Cerba-20’, the online video game to virtually combat Covid-19 that he built from scratch in his room at home in Binasco, south of Milan, during the country’s lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. At the command of the Cerba-20 spacecraft, it is possible to attack and defeat virtually a terrible monster, to which he gave the features of Covid-19. The game has become the platform on which to challenge classmates and friends. — AFP

MILAN: While most nine-year-olds have been battling during lockdown with the vagaries of home schooling, Lupo Daturi has been waging war on Covid-19 itself. Virtually.

The fourth-grade pupil from the outskirts of Milan, where inhabitants have been living in lockdown since March 8, has used his time to create a video game to play with his friends.

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