Jeremy Corbyn runs through the streets of London, he’s flanked by Deliveroo employees, NHS workers, students, and mothers with buggies, while they dodge a bus brandished with the word #LIES. No, this isn’t my Mystic Meg moment before 8 June, it’s Corbyn’s latest reinvention, this time in pixels.
CorbynRun is the brainchild of a collective called Games For The Many, which sees you, as Corbyn, running from the evil ‘Theresa Mayhem’, who is throwing champagne at you from the safety of her helicopter, naturally. The game’s producer James Moulding explained to Buzzfeed that the concept begun from people wanting to support the campaign in ways other than canvassing. He went on to describe the European influences behind it, a similar game had been created in France before their elections and that 'we’ve got Italian and Spanish people who aren’t able to vote at the election, and they wanted to use their game design skills to take forward Labour ideas.'
The game has intentionally been made non-violent, instead (in what makes it probably the most British game in the world), as Corbyn collects money from rich bankers and tax dodging accountants you can ‘launch’ a manifesto pledge. The pledges range from banning zero hours contracts, to creating 1000,000 affordable homes per year, and saving our NHS.
As well as the treacherous champers from Theresa, you also have to keep an eye out for Boris throwing GB flags while suspended on a zip wire, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and even the ghost of Margaret Thatcher. As the game finishes, you are told how much tax dodging has been reinvested and then you are urged, obviously, to vote labour on the 8th of June. Unsurprisingly, Twitter’s gone mad for it.
The game itself is surprisingly addictive, plus, Corbyn narrowing Theresa May’s lead in the latest polls seems like as good an excuse as any to stop working and have a go, we suggest you do just that.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.