Hello Plague Inc. and Rebel Inc. players! It’s been quite the decade for us. Ndemic didn’t exist ten years ago and now here we are at the edge of 2020. Time flies when you are infecting the world!
As I tend to do at the end of every year, I wanted to take a few moments to look back at 2019 and to celebrate some of the great work from the team here at Ndemic HQ. It’s also a chance to look forward, as we’ve plenty of exciting plans on the horizon for 2020 and beyond! :)
Here are some of the key milestones for 2019, notable events from the year, and our plans for 2020.
Key milestones/stats:
- Plague Inc. continues to be one of the most popular paid apps ever (#1 in France, Italy and Spain, #2 in Australia, Brazil and Germany, and #3 in the UK and USA)
- Rebel Inc. has done well in its debut year as well - hitting number 5 in the iOS best-selling app charts just underneath Plague Inc.!
- Fun fact: players have wiped out the world 2,094,350,296 times, killing 15,655,888,945,290,400,000 people in the process.
- Over 135 million players have now been infected with Plague Inc. worldwide! That’s 1.8% of the world’s population!
Thank you to everyone who has made all of this possible!
Key events from 2019:
- Apple announced that both Plague Inc. and Rebel Inc. were among the best selling games of 2019, while around the world Rebel Inc. was also voted by Google Play as the indie game of the year
- Plague Inc. took up the fight against Fake News in a free scenario update
- Plague Inc: The Board game’s first major expansion, Plague Inc: Armageddon arrived at retail and you can get it here!
- We posted a behind the scenes blog on the making of Plague Inc: The Board Game.
- Our founder and lead designer, James Vaughan, was named one of TechSPARK’s top 20 innovators in the South West
- Rebel Inc: escalation launched on Steam via Early Access, and it’s since received 8(!) updates in response to amazing player support and feedback
- James was a keynote speaker at the annual global Games for Change conference in New York
- Plague Inc: Evolved launched on Nintendo Switch
- Ndemic Creations was named in Maserati’s top 100 list, collated to honour British innovation!
- Rebel Inc. was featured at a global Peace and Development conference, and James held a talk with the World Bank’s Global Lead for Stability, Peace and Security
- Plague Inc: Armageddon smashed through it’s Kickstarter goals the same day it went live ending up 1000% funded
- Ndemic Creations responded to a viral petition about adding Anti-vaxxers to Plague Inc. (we’re still working on this!)
- After a successful iOS launch, Rebel Inc. came to Android
Plans for 2020:
- Rebel Inc: Escalation will continue to expand during Early Access (including Campaign mode and Scenario Creator - check out the full plans here!)
- More Plague Inc. and Rebel Inc. content updates
- Fake News and more to come for console versions of Plague Inc: Evolved
- More top-secret things which we’re not quite ready to share! :)
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Stay healthy and happy new year!
James and the whole Ndemic Creations team