Citizens Uprising on Kickstarter
A strategy board game + immersive 1770s social platform. Play history. Debate ideas. Build a nation.
Why This Revolution Needs You
Citizens Uprising is a strategy board game and immersive online platform that lets people step into the 1770s, argue like founders, and feel how rules shape a nation. This Kickstarter turns years of prototyping into something real that classrooms, families, and communities can actually use.
- Put fully playable Citizens Uprising game kits into classrooms, clubs, and living rooms.
- Accelerate the online platform where students role-play, debate, and draft their own civic ideas in a safer, moderated space.
- Fund a “pay to play” model that gives students and teachers small honorariums for real participation instead of just “likes” and views.
- Grow a creative community of makers, educators, and players who keep the story of the American Revolution alive as we approach its 250th anniversary in 2026.
This campaign is about more than producing a game box or a website. It’s about giving future leaders a place to practice disagreement, courage, and curiosity—with real history at the center and rewards for showing up thoughtfully. By backing Citizens Uprising, you’re helping build a civic playground where liberty is something people experience together, not just memorize for a test.
A quick look at the Citizens Uprising board game and online platform your pledge helps bring into classrooms, homes, and communities.
Platform – A Living, Safer Civic Playground▼
The platform is where debate, role-play, and daily history all come together. Teachers, professors, and students log in as colonial personas, follow AI-guided news from Colonial Chronicles, and move their ideas forward in the Tavern and Town Square.
Instead of doom-scrolling, participants earn small honorariums for contributing thoughtfully—recording short video reflections, debating as historical figures, or helping test new features. Funding from this campaign strengthens core systems: hosting, safety tools, and the first wave of polished experiences so the platform is ready for real classrooms and community groups on day one.
Long term, stretch goals unlock deeper AI moderation, classroom modes, and constitution simulators that make the platform feel like a full-scale civics lab, not just another social feed.
Board Game – Learning Through Play▼
The board game is the physical anchor—the thing you can put on a table and build a night, a lesson, or a tournament around. Players command Patriot, British, French, and Native factions across a richly illustrated Revolutionary map, racing armies toward the Liberty Center while answering history questions that unlock spies, ships, and cavalry maneuvers.
Our “Pay to Play” initiative turns those sessions into more than entertainment. Students can complete short questionnaires, share testimonial videos, and reflect on tough choices in the game—and earn small rewards for doing it. Funding helps refine components, clarify rules so the game is teachable in a single class period, and prepare an online version for school-versus-school tournaments.
The goal is a game that feels fun enough for family night and robust enough for civics teachers to use as a recurring learning tool.
Products – “Christmas in July” & Beyond▼
The handcrafted product line keeps the world of Citizens Uprising alive between game nights and school years. Ornaments, keychains, pins, chess pieces, and desk collectibles turn historical figures and symbols into small, tangible stories people can wear, gift, and display.
The flagship idea is a “Christmas in July” tradition—elegant white trees with red, white, and blue ornaments that celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Revolution. Funding from this campaign lets us refine designs, scale up production from one-off resin prints to consistent small batches, and experiment with classroom-friendly bundles that schools can use for fundraising and recognition.
Every physical piece is designed to feel like it belongs in the same universe as the board game and platform: museum-inspired, playful, and built to spark conversations about the people and choices that shaped the country.
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