When a former Dunedin man created a game set in a dystopian future where Donald Trump is president, he never expected it to become a reality.
But the former John McGlashan College pupil hopes some of the bitter feelings from the election win will open up a new market for his game.
Oddboy studio co-founder Ben Markby (27), who was born and raised in Dunedin, was part of the team which dreamed up the concept for the game Jrump in June.
The game is set in 2017 and new president "Donald Jrump" is running the White House.
In the game, the player builds a wall to allow the new president to climb to outer space and "make the galaxy great again".
Since the game was launched in September, it has been downloaded about 400,000 times.
A new level was added to the game last week allowing a character based on Democrat Bernie Sanders to try to "destroy" the Trump-like character.
The designers had planned to stop working on the game after the election, as they had never expected Mr Trump to win, Mr Markby, who now lives in Auckland, said.
However, they now hoped it would prove appealing to those feeling "dismal" after the election result.
"We didn’t want him to win but the only silver lining is our game has a little bit more legs than if he lost."
As the election result was unfolding on Wednesday, Mr Markby was at a law firm in Auckland negotiating terms with a Chinese investor wanting to put money into the joint venture between studio Oddboy and Apparcanum Ltd, which designed and owned the game.
The design team would meet next week to discuss whether Jrump should evolve with new plot-lines.
"Now he’s president we could take the game to a whole new level."
