Birds in the City: Bengaluru Edition
This is a subsidized price made possible by the support from Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom and Wipro Foundation.
A purposefully crafted board game that invites you to re imagine Bengaluru from a bird's-eye view. Navigate urban challenges set against the rich habitats of vibrant IT capital and the garden city of India. Collaborate and take actions - plant trees, compost, and install bird feeders to provide resources that help birds survive and thrive. Collect badges for your efforts as the city transforms and the bird-life flourishes. Celebrate nature and community!
Age 14 +, Number of players 3 to 5, Duration of play 45 to 90 min
Each box contains - 1 game board, 4 player reference cards, 64 tokens of 10 distinct bird species, 82 tokens of 6 resource types, 18 degradation tokens, 38 city event cards, 16 superpower cards, 12 player action cards, 10 badges and 1 round marker
Dimensions: 9.5 x 10.5 x 2.5 inch, 1.5 kg
Language: English
Birds in the City: Bengaluru Edition is an educational board game that intends to engage people in learning about the bird diversity around them in a playful way. It is a collaborative game that can be played collectively by 3-5 players. It contains a representative map-board of a dynamic cityscape inspired by diverse habitats and landmarks of urban and peri-urban regions of Bengaluru, bird tokens, resource tags, city event cards and player action cards. Along with this, the game also contains a companion booklet about the information and research that has gone into the making of the game. The game can be used as educational material, for example in a workshop format or can be played independently for fun! When used in a workshop format, the companion booklet can be used during a debriefing session to explore what, why and how of the concepts used in the game.
Designed through a grant from the Bengaluru Sustainability Forum and support from the Nature Conservation Foundation.
Game concept and design: Prasad Sandbhor, Priti Bangal
Game illustrations, layout and visual design: Nicole Elsa
Cover art: Karunya Bhaskar
Companion booklet writing: Tiara Aurora
Supported by: Bengaluru Sustainability Forum, Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom, Wipro Foundation, Nature Conservation Foundation
Published by: Nature Conservation Foundation
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