Cheesman Park: The Game

I read an article in the Denver Post (https://www.denverpost.com/2026/07/09/cheesman-park-game-casey-cantor/) a few days ago about a Denver software engineer's new online game, which involves players deputized as park rangers in order to fight ghouls and ghosts in Denver's Cheesman Park using Frisbees. Yes! Frisbees! Cheesman Park started out as a cemetery in 1858, the year Denver was founded, but was turned into a park back in 1910. The city hired undertaker E.P. McGovern to move the bodies to Riverside Cemetery, just to the north of Denver in Commerce City, but to make additional profit, he cut up the bodies and put them in multiple coffins. When the city found out about this, they fired McGovern and halted the project. Which left the remaining bodies in unmarked graves in both Cheesman Park and the neighboring Denver Botanic Gardens. Needless to say, ever since then, there have been alleged sightings of ghosts wandering the park and the botanic gardens after sunset, which is the starting point for the new online game. Once nighttime arrives, the object is to kill off as many zombies and ghosts as you can before they get to you. It is a very simple game, kind of like Ms. Pac-Man, the arcade game from the 1980s, but incorporating the history of the park into it makes it all kind of interesting. And yes, the photograph above is indeed of Cheesman Park, with the Cheesman Park Pavilion in the background. And for God's sake, be sure to stay out of that park after dark. Check out the game at https://cheesmanparkthegame.com/.