Drylands Board Game

Set in Africa’s Sahel region, "Drylands" uses Africa’s Great Green Wall as its backdrop.

The Great Green Wall is a multinational project aimed at planting a continuous belt of trees across Africa to stop the spread of desertification.

Drylands are fragile ecosystems where deserts border savanna and/or forest biomes. These places can easily be degraded into desert-like conditions or nurtured to be greener and more productive. It depends on how the land is managed.

 

How to play:

In this two player game the desert player competes with the forest player to decide the outcome of a small section of drylands.

The gameplay and strategy is abstract, reminiscent of Othello, Go, or Reversi, where the objective is to flip opponent tiles.

 

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