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\u201cSan Francisco couldn\u2019t fix the tenderloin, so I monetized it,\u201d Biojout said on social media. In the game, he sold digital ad space for $100 per week, which accounts for some of the real-world companies seen on billboards within his polygonal recreation of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for San Francisco city officials to take notice of the title. Speaking to NCB Bay Area<\/a>, Mayor Daniel Lurie said, \u201cThere\u2019s no accounting for taste or people\u2019s terrible ideas. This is a bad one, and we reject it. It doesn\u2019t speak for San Francisco values.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle,<\/a> Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, dubbed the game \u201cdeeply disturbing and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTurning violence against real people, including unhoused people, into entertainment is dehumanizing and should never be normalized,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m encouraged to see that the majority of San Franciscans recognize that this crosses a line and refuse to stand for it.\u201d<\/p>\n While Biojout was previously boasting about the backlash on his social media accounts, he later removed the game from his online platform and issued a public apology over how his project depicted San Francisco\u2019s citizens. He also revealed that he\u2019d been inspired by an Alcatraz-themed Call of Duty<\/a> map and said he often passes by the Tenderloin on his way to work.<\/p>\n \u201cThe game was not intended to provoke or to depict shooting real people. Its characters draw on a broad cross-section of San Francisco, across different backgrounds and walks of life, including people who work in tech. The familiar city details and Easter eggs are part of what makes it fun to play with friends,\u201d he told the Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking to NBC Bay Area, Bijout said, \u201cIt was not intended to depict shooting real people or to target a particular demographic or group.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, Biojout revealed that he refunded advertisers who promoted his game and removed all of his social media posts about it. He also donated the game\u2019s total revenue to the Delancey Street Foundation<\/a>, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that provides rehabilitation services and vocational training to convicted criminals and those suffering from substance abuse.<\/p>\n \u201cI built and posted a zombie game set on San Francisco streets. The setting and the way I promoted it showed poor judgment. Targeting people struggling with addiction or homelessness was never my intention,\u201d he wrote on Twitter\/X<\/a>.<\/p>\n The game was available on Biojout’s NanoCorp AI website, a platform that runs online businesses using AI agents. It has since been removed, and the page is no longer available at the time of writing.<\/p>\n Image Credits: plbiojout<\/p>\n Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The developer of a zombie game set in San Francisco has taken down the game and issued a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-506101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Virginia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/XD1zX2FT-1782150223173.jpg\")
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