PRE-ORDER Birds in the City: Bengaluru Edition
A purposefully crafted board game that invites you to reimagine 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 birdlife 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
Please note - This is a pre-order option. Shipping of the orders will commence from 1 October.
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
Connect with us: contact.playinnature@gmail.com
Website:playinnature.in/game
