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Kavango

Created by Mazaza Games

Kavango is a beautiful, strategic and fast-paced board game that has captured the hearts of over 3,000 kickstarter backers. With simultaneous turns, satisfying tableau-building and tough decisions, Kavango's gameplay has been praised by board game reviewers. Created by Matt and Zara, while working on conservation in Botswana, Kavango is deeply thematic and is thoughtfully designed to be a modern and realistic view of conservation in southern Africa. With 160 beautifully unique species cards, 45 research cards, 10 conservation experts and 5 landscape boards, there is huge variability to reflect the incredible biodiversity of Kavango. Don't miss out on your chance to buy the exclusive Kickstarter Edition with all stretch goals included! 1-5 Players | 40-60 mins | 10yrs +

Latest Updates from Our Project:

🎁 Early Bird Competition Winner 🎁
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 10:55:08 AM

And the winner is...

Congratulations to Paul Smith, backer number 139, who has won our Early Bird competition! 

In case you didn't see our campaign at the start, we ran an Early Bird competition where backers in the first hour were automatically entered into a competition to win their pledge back.  

Congratulations again to Paul,

Zara & Matt 

A Thank You Gift...
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 10:44:34 AM

What a Way to Finish!

Together we've unlocked 14 stretch goals and raised £212,250 through the support of all you amazing (3,005!) backers. 

The campaign has done better than we could have ever imagined and that has been driven by the enthusiasm and engagement of each individual Kavango backer. A huge thank you to each and every one you for making our Kavango community so special. We've been on quite a journey together and, as designers, it's made our campaign much more dynamic and fun to integrate your ideas and feedback into the game as we've gone along. 

A Thank You Gift ...

As a final thank you, we want to give you one extra 'stretch goal' with no funding strings attached. We want to create a commemorative Kickstarter booklet explaining the amazing conservation work that inspired us and how every aspect of Kavango is designed to be true to real life conservation. You are all part of this story and it's our intention to print our backers names in the booklet if you'd like to be included. 

We're still toying with exactly how this will be incorporated and as this community has provided such insightful input throughout the campaign, we want to keep the conversation going over the coming weeks. That way, we can involve you all in the final decision on how to do this. Look out for some surveys and polling! 

Please keep following our Kickstarter updates to keep in the loop and if you're on social media, we're most active on instagram @kavango.game.  Will be reaching out to you all over the next few weeks with the pledge manager survey and in the meantime please keep in touch over comments, emails or instagram. 

It's been a real honour to go on this journey with you all. The community has been truly amazing. 

Thank you!

Matt & Zara 

Deluxe Player Boards Double Printing
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 02:19:30 AM

Hi everyone 👋

Thanks for all your feedback on the deluxe player boards. Lots of you are excited about the corner holder options and some also want the option of no corner holders in their deluxe version. We want to make the best possible game for you, our amazing backers, and are going to double print the deluxe boards so that one side has corner holders and the other side is flat. That way you can choose which one you want to play with. Thanks to Damien for the suggestion 😊


Lets keep up the momentum for the final few hours and unlock the last remaining stretch goal 🏆

Final 48 hours!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 08:46:14 AM

Hi everyone 😊 

It's the last 48 HOURS for Kavango!

We've been blown away by your support, a huge thank you to every single one of our 2,398 backers who have made the campaign such a success so far. Together, we've unlocked 12 stretch goals which will all be included as a free bonus in your Kickstarter version of the game:
1. Premium linen finish on all the cards.
2. Five bonus animeeples (Lion, Sable, Flamingo, Tortoise and Caracal).
3. Extra smooth linen finish on the boards.
4. Upgraded solo-player die to give a luxury feel to the solo experience.
5-7. A climate mini-expansion that will include an exclusive conservation expert, the Climatologist, three new animal cards and a new end of game conservation award!
8. A hand illustrated pull-out map of the Kavango region included in the Kickstarter version rulebook.
9. Easy and Expert rule variations, including some fun new goal cards for the experts!
10. Beautiful hand-drawn inside box art.
11. Printed animeeples for added detail and character.
12. Three new research tasks.

And we have some exciting stretch goals still to unlock in the last 48hrs!

Please keep telling your friends and family about Kavango so we can all unlock the final stretch goals together!  

Thanks so much,
Matt & Zara

Tune into our live interview on Instagram in one hour!
over 2 years ago – Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:05:55 AM

We're doing a live interview on instagram in 1 hour 20:00 (GMT + 1) 🥳 . Gareth, who you might know from his instagram @boardgamemeeple or his podcast Meeple2Meeple, will be interviewing us live. Tune in to hear us talk about the Kickstarter campaign, Spiel Essen, conservation and our tips for creating your own game. 

It would be amazing to speak to you all in real time via the comments and questions if you're able to join the live interview. 

Hope to see some of you online soon. 

Zara & Matt