Eye Know - A Board Game for Climate Change Education Using Satire
Eye Know Board Game
Displayed and Sold in Bombay Zine Fest 2023
The Vision
Eye Know is a legit board game designed to educate while being a satire on climate change. You can keep rolling the dice but for every step you take forward you end up taking many steps backward. It's a ‘fun’ board game to experience all that life in 2024 AD and beyond has to offer. It is a game that you can begin but might never finish! so everyone ends up loosing the game.
The larger message is "Aren't we all losers when it comes to climate change "??
Do we know what the future holds? Or are we living bits and part of it everyday in the present itself ? Do we see what is happening in the world around us ? Is it that our ‘eyes’ know what our ‘I’ isn’t ready to accept yet? Play this game to know life of an average person in 2024 AD and beyond. The interconnectedness of our actions wasn’t more on the face ever in any point in history.
How it works
The game has been designed as easy to carry, a single sheet and uses the simple rules of snakes and ladders by being a grid base game. Each grid color signifies a concept -
Positive Actions,
Negative Karmas
Skip a turn
It Happend to me etc
The game has positive moments where as a player proceeds ahead immediately followed by static or negative karma moments of society which an individual also suffers by going back due to action of whole society. As you get educated about things that impact us due to climate change one also comes to realise that our collective actions as a society have individual impacts
REQUIREMENTS
Eye Know Board and a dice, counters for each player and an open mind to see things as they are.
RULES
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This multiplayer game (2 or more) can be played anytime, anywhere.
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Just put your counters at the START square and roll the dice!
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Take turns to roll the dice.
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You can either move ahead, skip a turn. step back or stay at your square.
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After moving your counter, if you land on a square that asks you to step back, you will be required to do so within the same turn.
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Whoever reaches the finish line first will be the winner.( which by design no one can)
Impact
The board game has received great response with 10 boards being sold out in Bombay Zine fest 2023 and 2024. Here are few of ouresteemed buyers like Mae Mariyam Thomas is the founder and host of the podcast Maed in India, India's first indie music podcast.
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