/ -- Designer and innovator Zain Memon, co-founder of a media start-up, Memesys Culture Lab, launched a Kickstarter campaign on 16th July 2019 for his team's latest project, political strategic board game SHASN. Usually, Kickstarter campaigns take at least a few weeks to succeed and reach their funding goal. Zain's campaign - by dawn - had already raised $28,592, with over 333 backers. As of today 12:40 pm, SHASN raised $124,871. The campaign will be live till 16th August 2019.
Designed by Zain Memon and his tiny gang of artists, activists, and gamers - SHASN is a gripping table-top game about ethics, politics, and strategy. It is centered on a nationwide election and breaks the body politic clearly and carefully down to its bare bones.
SHASN has been handpicked from over thousands of projects on Kickstarter, to headline the crowd-funding website globally. The game has also received rave reviews internationally, especially in the USA and UK. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, and Siri creator Tom Gruber are both self-professed ardent fans. Stephen Gulik of Everything Board Games claimed, "SHASN is the best thing to come out of American politics in a very long time."
"A major reason we made the game is that our political discourse is broken," says Zain. "People aren't able to converse anymore about the most important problems of our world. We wanted to create an intervention that would facilitate that."
On taking his film experience to games, Zain states that, "The game actually came much before the film. It's been around for thousands of years, it's almost pre-human. So many other species have been deploying play as a practice to prepare for the real world. It's visceral. It's a simulation of the real world in a controlled environment."
Here's the link to SHASN's Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zainmemon/shasn-the-political-strategy-board-game-break-ks
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