Creator of Politidex hopes free online app will help humanise politics and act as a way of ‘flipping the narrative’
The year is 2016 and Pokémon Go has taken over the world. People are wandering for miles on end, disrupting concerts, and even slamming into poles in their attempts to capture fantastical cartoon creatures.
Ten years later, a new generation are flocking to another Pokémon-inspired game. Instead of Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise, however, players are catching and training up their local politicians in order to build their own political parties. Some MPs are even catching themselves.
Politidex is a free mobile game where players can build their own rag-tag team of cabinet members and backbenchers. Starting with their local area, players travel through constituencies teeming with wild MPs and councillors, hoping to “catch ‘em all” and become the dominant party of the UK.
Officially launched on 6 May, the game currently features more than 18,000 characters, including all 650 MPs and thousands of local councillors. A week on, players have already fought more than 45,000 battles and “caught” over 17,000 politicians.
