I'm at a point in crowdfunding games where the first-time designer + publishers are almost always 'avoid' for me, but I will take another look just because RR made a video about it 😀
Thanks so much for your interest in Kavango! You can check out our Kickstarter campaign which is now live here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mazazagames/kavango
I really think you need to pay royalties to Mr Brown for that outrageous murder of his lyrics! Game is looking interesting, I do wish that it was a smaller footprint though I say that about almost all games these days having lost half my dining rm table to work IT equipment.
p.s. if you want to reduce the footprint, you don't HAVE to use the player boards; you can just stack the cards; as long as you can see the icons and be sure not to exceed the 24-card-limit [of non-prod cards], then you are good,