India, Oct. 18 -- A San Francisco techie has taken down a controversial video game that turned the city's Tenderloin neighbourhood into a zombie-killing zone after facing backlash over allegations that it allowed players to target homeless people and drug users. Pierre-Louis Biojout, the creator of the free multiplayer browser game, announced on Friday that he took the game down.

"I built and posted a zombie game set on San Francisco streets. The setting and the way I promoted it showed poor judgment," Biojout wrote on X. "Targeting people struggling with addiction or homelessness was never my intention," he added.

Biojout also said that he refunded all advertisers and made a personal donation to a drug treatment and recovery service eq...