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Historically, the Bengaluru metropolis has been home to urban parks, lakes, botanical gardens and wooded areas alongside the quaint residential neighbourhoods. However, the city has experienced some extreme changes in its landscape and environment over the years – the increase in urban sprawl, development of the city’s infrastructure, expanding transportation systems – which have also affected the urban wildlife that the city supports in different ways. Birds are one such example of wildlife that has coexisted in most urban landscapes alongside humans. Bengaluru still boasts of being a paradise for bird watching although the number and species of birds that one sees in and around the city has changed over time. As a part of this project, we have designed Birds in the City: Bengaluru Edition, a board game that helps players collectively experience this relationship between urbanization and its effects on bird diversity in the context and background of the city of Bengaluru.