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Kaki Lima Tabletop Game: Cultural Heritage Education through Gamification

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Employing gamification as a creative tool for cultural heritage education, Kaki Lima is a light strategy game inspired by walking around Penang’s George Town. Players navigate their way as pedestrians through a grid of five-foot ways (or kaki lima) in order to complete personal and collaborative tasks. 

Featuring real locations in George Town, Kaki Lima highlights the city’s cultural assets and the issue of accessibility of five-foot ways of traditional shophouses in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tabletop game aims to promote public awareness of five-foot ways as shared space and to stimulate larger conversations about liveability and community values.

Kaki Lima is designed by Goh Choon Ean, with illustrations by Charis Loke - both of whom are Arts-ED’s Committee Members - and co-produced by LUMA and Arts-ED. 

Follow Kaki Lima on Facebook and Instagram for updates on future play sessions and more, from the historical origins of kaki lima worldwide to the journey of crafting the game.

KAKI LIMA
A board game inspired by walking around Penang's George Town, Kaki Lima is about pedestrians navigating their way through a grid of five-foot ways. Players gain victory points when their pedestrians reach places on their task lists and exploration quest cards, when they clear blocked paths, and when they meet up with other pedestrians.

For 1-8 players | Approx 10 - 80 mins playtime

Game design by Goh Choon Ean
with a solo & duel mode by Evan Cheah
Illustrations by Charis Loke
Production by Tan Wah Chew

PLAY:
Kaki Lima online on Tabletopia

WATCH:
How-to-play videos on YouTube
A playthrough demo of a Kaki Lima 2-player game
A playthrough demo of the MCO Mode Solo and Duel games

DOWNLOAD:
The Kaki Lima Rulebook PDF
The Kaki Lima Rulesheet for MCO Solo & Duel Modes

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Available at Arts-ED Office: +6016 4003471. Please make an appointment before visiting.

Kaki Lima can also be purchased from the following places:

PENANG:

KUALA LUMPUR

SELANGOR

SARAWAK

SINGAPORE

MELAKA