The Mayor of Ability Town – Board Game

The Mayor of Ability Town is a board game that sensitizes young people about people with disabilities

Why we need this game?

We all experience disability and we all want to have some fun! The board game will give you a challenge based on disability and accountability and we bet you would want to take the spirit in the real world and make a difference! We challenge you to become THE MAYOR OF A TOWN!

Story: A-Town is a beautiful dream town and everyone who lives there loves and respect each other. One day the retiring mayor has an accident and has to use the wheelchair. On realizing he is unable to go inside any building in A-town he feels accountable to his people and decides to do something. He calls his people and shares his concerns about accessibility and accountability of Universal Design. He is shocked to find the number of people with a disability in his Town and growing numbers based on old age and other factors. To make the Town more accessible, he decides to let the next mayor be one with a disability but not so fast! He picks four candidates recommended by the Town and welcomes them to play a game for 100 days. Each candidate has a disability and gets a small fund from the Mayor. They can land on any property and get license for it and then they must ensure universal accessibility there. The candidate to get maximum licenses and ensures maximum accessibility will become the next Mayor of A-Town. People of A-Town can also enjoy and test the accessibility as the 100 days go on.

Objective: The Mayor of A-Town is a game about competing to become Mayor of A-Town. This can be achieved by buying properties to make them disabled friendly.

Players:

1) Wheelchair user/Physical

2) Hearing Impaired/Deaf/Mute

3) Visually impaired/Blind

4) Intellectual disability/Autistic/Down Syndrome/Delayed learning etc

Types of Accessibilities for each building:

Corresponding Accessibility:

1) Ramps and Lifts

2) Sign Language communication available

3) Braille and walking bars

4) Sensitized staff hired

Material:

• A-Town Board with all the buildings on it. For example:
• 4 Player Pieces
• 1 Dice
• License cards of every building
• 28 pieces of Accessibility Sign
• 28 pieces of Sign Language Sign
• 28 pieces of Braille sign
• 28 pieces of ‘Sensitized Staff works here’
• 15 cards for ‘Pick a Penalty’
• 15 cards for ‘Get Lucky’
• Paper Money: Woopies

Housing Colony	Coffee Shop	Clinic	Bank	Stadium	Park
Flats	Restaurant	Hospital	Passport Office	Opera/Community Centre	Business Centre
Grocery store	Cinema	Post office	NADRA	Airport	Train station
Mall	Beauty Saloon	NGO	Media House	Parliament	Court

Other Special Buildings: (Four Corners)

Start

Mayor’s office

Television Studio

Prison

Blank Boxes:

Pick a Penalty

Get Lucky

Pick a Penalty

Get Lucky

Before Game Begins:

• Each player picks their piece hence their disability
• Each Player gets: 8000W
• All players are placed on start

Game Rules:

• Each Player rolls dice and lands on Property. Each property has its own license price. Player can pay to bank and get the place
• On next turn Player lands on his/her property he/she can add one type of access on it out of four.
• A player has to land on his/her property five times to to make it a Universal Design.

Other Players:

• If another player lands on your property and you don’t have their accessibility, You pay them X amount of Woopies.
• If a player lands on your property and you have accessibility for them, They pay you X amount of Woopies.

Pick a Penalty:

Penalty cards can range from paying wrong parking fine to a quick visit to the Prison or other.

Get Lucky:

Lucky cards can win you some extra cash from current mayor along or fame through live television and other.

Budget: 6000 USD

Design of Board and pieces: USD 1500

Production costs: USD 1000

Team Management: USD 1500

Marketing, Branding and Dissemination: USD 1500

Miscellaneous: USD 500

I request you to support us in the production of this game in Pakistan to be distributed Globally!

Love,

-Tanzila

Accountrepreneur

Founder, A-Town