Ndemic Games founder James Vaughan made Plague, Inc. in his bedroom as a hobby in 2011. He wasn't expecting the game to be a hit—nor was he expecting to live through a pandemic so reminiscent of it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8g8z/plague-inc-developer-never-expected-reality-to-look-like-its-video-game