‘Yellow Umbrella’ video game tasks players with defending Occupy Central barricades

A newly launched video game lets those who did not get to experience the Occupy Central protests first-hand to get a feel for the civil disobedience movement.

In the spirit of non-violence espoused by the student protesters, players are unable to attack. Instead, they must defend their camp as waves of police officers, triads, angry anti-Occupy protesters and even Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying himself attack the barricades.

The game’s developer told the South China Morning Post that he was inspired to create the game after witnessing the protesters’ resolve in the face of “violence from the anti-Occupy people and even the police”.