A San Francisco tech developer who created a online game that turned the metropolis’s infamous Tenderloin neighborhood into a zombie-killing zone has pulled the plug after livid critics claimed the recreation allowed gamers to goal homeless drug customers.
Creator Pierre-Louis Biojout, who had bragged about the recreation, modified reversed course on Friday in asserting he took the recreation down.
“I built and posted a zombie game set on San Francisco streets. The setting and the way I promoted it showed poor judgment,” he wrote on X. “Targeting people struggling with addiction or homelessness was never my intention.”
A display seize of the recreation. X/@plbiojout
In addition to shuttering the recreation, he said he refunded all advertisers and made a private donation to a drug therapy and restoration service matching the recreation’s income.
I constructed and posted a zombie recreation set on San Francisco streets. The setting and the manner I promoted it confirmed poor judgment. Targeting folks struggling with habit or homelessness was never my intention.I’ve taken the recreation and promotional posts down, refunded all advertisers,…— Pierre-Louis Biojout (PLB) (@plbiojout) October 16, 2026
Boijout had unveiled the free, multiplayer browser recreation Tuesday, describing it as a “Call of Duty style zombie shooter on the real SF streets.”
The developer claimed he constructed the recreation in just one weekend utilizing AI coding instruments, despite never having made a online game before — and had already raked in $300 in promoting income.
But the recreation sparked an speedy firestorm, with indignant critics accusing Biojout of turning the metropolis’s homelessness disaster into leisure.
People congregate on a sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. Noah Berger for California Post
“You think you’re being edgy but you’re just a huge piece of s–t,” one individual wrote on social media.
“Bring back shame. This is atrocious PR,” another fumed.
Even elected officers weighed in, including metropolis Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin.
“Turning violence against real people, including unhoused people, into entertainment is dehumanizing and should never be normalized,” Mahmood instructed the San Francisco Chronicle.
Pierre-Louis Biojout, designer of the Zombie Shooter recreation based mostly in San Francisco streets, poses for a photograph. X/@plbiojout
It seems the stress got to Boijout, who is the founder of NanoCorp, which markets a platform that makes use of AI brokers to construct and run on-line companies.
He instructed the Chronicle that he walks through the Tenderloin twice a day on his manner to his workplace and thought the space had a “distinctive atmosphere” that would work properly for a zombie-shooter online game.
Still, not all on social media were comfortable about the recreation’s elimination.
“The people b—tching at you have luxury beliefs and should shut the f—k up and put their energy into actually doing something versus whining at someone doing something,” commented Peter Kazanjy, the founder of a San Francisco gross sales software program firm.
“Your game was fantastic satire,” he added.
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