End Game: Union Multiplayer
{{Short description|2021 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = End Game: Union Multiplayer
| image = End Game logo.png
| developer = Daniel Kong Thar
Thomas
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| publisher = Shoot and Support
| series =
| released = 2021
| platforms = {{hlist|Android|iOS}}
| genre = Shooter
Battle royale game
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| modes =Multiplayer
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End Game - Union Multiplayer is a multiplayer shooter game developed and published by young Burmese developers to raise funds for overthrowing the military government in Myanmar. The game was inspired by the Spring Revolution and the armed resistance against the military government. End Game has reached the top of the chart in the local Play Store.{{cite news |title=ပစ်ရင်းလှူအဖွဲ့မှ စစ်အာဏာရှင်ဆန့်ကျင်သောလူငယ်များ ဖန်တီးထားသည့် သေနတ် ပစ်ဂိမ်း Mobile Legend ကိုကျော်လွန်၍ Play Store တွင် ထိပ်ဆုံးနေရာရောက်ရှိ |url=https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/112256 |work=Mizzima |date=28 July 2022 |language=my}} The game is significant as one of the main fundraisers for the country’s armed resistance movement. As of 2022, the game is banned by the junta.{{cite news |title=Myanmar junta bans online PDF video games |url=https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-junta-bans-online-pdf-video-games |work=Myanmar Now |date=23 September 2022 |language=en}} End Game became Myanmar's first multiplayer shooter game.{{cite news |title= တော်လှန်လူငယ်များ ဖန်တီးထားသည့် သေနတ်ပစ်ဂိမ်း ပလေးစတိုးတွင် ထိပ်ဆုံးရောက် |url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/545683 |work=Democratic Voice of Burma|date=28 July 2022 |language=my}}
Political significance
The game is developed by two Burmese developers Daniel Kong Thar and Thomas from Shoot and Support, a group of Digital Strike, to raise funds for the overthrowing of the military dictatorship.{{cite news |title=တော်လှန်ရေးတပ်သား ၁ ဦးအဖြစ်ပါဝင်ကစားနိုင်မည့် ဗွီဒီယိုဂိမ်းသစ် စတင်မိတ်ဆက် |url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/501525 |work=Democratic Voice of Burma |date=20 November 2021 |language=my}} It overtook Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, which is also enjoyed by the Burmese youths, and reached the top one in the local Play Store. Players can target top generals in the game, including junta leaders Min Aung Hlaing and Soe Win, in addition to frontline soldiers. On 21 September 2022, the junta declared a ban on the video games that simulate combat against regime forces by the opposition-led People's Defence Force (PDF). The order warned that people who have the game on their mobile phones would be arrested.{{cite news |title=တော်လှန်ရေးဝင်ငွေရနေသည့် PDF အွန်လိုင်းဂိမ်းများကို ပိတ်ပင်ရန် စစ်ကောင်စီ အမိန့်ထုတ် |url=https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/115816 |work=Mizzima |date=22 September 2022 |language=my}}
The developers created the game character to honour of Phyo Zeya Thaw, who was unjustly hanged by the State Administration Council.{{cite news |title=Zayar Thaw is back for the revolutionary people |url=https://mpapress.com/en/news/12989/ |work=MPA |date=12 September 2022}} The profits from the game were distributed to the National Unity Government of Myanmar, Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), Cobra Column, Student Armed Force and many revolutionary organizations, and a total of over SGD160K donated.
See also
War of Heroes - The PDF Game: Singleplayer mobile game that has a similar Myanmar Civil War setting
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://endgameunion.org/}}
Category:Android (operating system) games
Category:Multiplayer video games