Pre-Production · 3+ Years From Release

MBOKA

M-Bo-Ka · A Living Regional Sim of the DRC

This is the story of how a country survived something almost unsurvivable. And how we're helping rebuild it — in real life, and in a game.

Mama Mabele with her daughter Zola — mythic Bantu Founder of the Council of Sovereignty, standing with the young next-generation
Mama Mabele & Zola
Land
Loredana
Loredana
Spirit
Melissa
Melissa
Law
Eddie
Eddie
Infrastructure
Dr. Elie Tiabakueno Sangu — The Operator-Diplomat (UPTW Founder)
Dr. Elie
Operations
Nick — The Grid-Builder (Palm Leaf Partners)
Nick
Power
Watch the Teaser

A first look · 50 seconds

The Council of Sovereignty's six Founders, the world they protect, and the corruption they refuse. Pre-production teaser — narrated by Sekou with a custom African-orchestral score.

Pre-Production · Concept Teaser · 50 seconds

The Foundation

This is not just a game.

MBOKA is the in-fiction shape of work that is already happening. Palm Leaf Partners is a DRC-rooted infrastructure firm. UPTW — Universal Palm Tree Women — is a real movement of 8,000+ women across 14+ chapters. The 30-year war is real history. The 2025 peace is real. The 8 flagship projects are real plans, in motion.

50yr
National infrastructure
partnership program
8,000+
UPTW women
across 14+ chapters worldwide
30yr
War in the DRC
that ended in 2025
8
Flagship infrastructure
projects in motion
🗺️

National Address Mapping

20M+ addresses surveyed for the first time — the literal foundation of every other system.

🏛️

Sovereign Data Center

DRC-owned, DRC-operated digital infrastructure. Not a foreign outpost.

📞

Regional Call Centers

5–10 regional emergency dispatch + service centers serving every province.

📡

National Fiber Backbone

The connective tissue. Internet sovereignty for a billion-plus connections.

⚡

Power Generation

Hydro, solar, geothermal — domestic supply, locked against foreign extortion.

🌾

Agriculture + Food Security

Cocoa, cassava, palm — value-added, processed in-country, exported as products.

🐟

Fishery + Cold-Chain

Congo River + Lake Kivu yield. Cold-chain that finally makes export viable.

🕊️

Memorial City

A 5 km² living memorial. Learn more →

Real People. Locked In.

The Council of Sovereignty

Five real humans + one mythic guide. Each Founder defends one slice of sovereignty against the Hollow King. None can act alone — every major build requires the others first. That interdependence is the heart of the game.

Mama Mabele with daughter Zola — mythic Bantu guide of the DRC; daughter of the Mother Tree, holding the hand of her own daughter
Land · Mythic Guide

Mama Mabele & Zola

"Walks the forest. Listens to what the land cannot say for itself."
  • 🌿Root NetworkInnate Palm Folk long-range awareness
  • 🦋Bestiary BondWild Companions follow her; healed Hollow Brood join
  • 🌳Listen to the LandReveals ecological fragility; vetoes harmful builds
  • 🌱RewildingRestores corrupted territory to natural state
  • 🐾Hidden PathsForest knowledge — reveals routes others can't see
  • 🗝️Mother Tree CommunionA bond saved for endgame. You'll know when.
Loredana — Global Mother
Spirit · UPTW Global Mother

Loredana

"The first to kneel. The last to leave."
  • 🙏SanctifyBlesses ground — corruption can't travel Sanctified land
  • 🕊️SanctuaryRefuge for the displaced; safe-zone in any region
  • 💫Spiritual HealingRestores faith + morale in war-traumatized villages
  • 🤝Cross-Chapter CallSummons Tier-2 sisters across the Root Network
  • 📿Vow RenewalCounters False Vow corruption from the Hollow King
  • 🌅Founding LightUSA Founding Chapter's signature — global movement anchor
Melissa — The Justiciar
Defender of Truth · The Justiciar

Melissa

"Seeks the truth. Speaks the truth. Defends the truth."
  • ⚖️TreatyBinding legal protection — locks sovereignty in writing
  • 📜CharterFounds new legal entity (chapter, region, project)
  • 🛡️Due ProcessBlocks counterfeit treaties from the Hollow King
  • 🔍AuditReveals legal corruption + hidden contracts on any node
  • ⚔️Strike DownVoids extraction contracts in Sanctified territory
  • 🌐Cross-Border CompactTreaty between regions; required for inter-province builds
Eddie — The Cartographer
Infrastructure & Logistics · The Cartographer

Eddie

"Surveys the world. Lays the foundation. Connects the country."
  • 🗺️SurveyReveal hidden region; required before any build
  • 🏗️FoundationInstant-build infra (only on Sanctified or surveyed land)
  • 📡Signal TowerConnects remote villages + powers regional call centers
  • 🏤Post Office NetworkBuilds logistics hubs for cargo, mail, supply routing — also fast-travel for the Council
  • 🔮ForesightPreview future resource forecast + bottleneck timelines
  • 🔐Sovereignty LockProtects from extraction (requires Melissa's prior Treaty)
Dr. Elie Tiabakueno Sangu — The Operator-Diplomat
Operations · Operator-Diplomat

Dr. Elie

"Makes things actually happen on the ground."
  • 💊TriageEmergency physical healing — modern medicine
  • 🤝AllianceRecruit government officials + village chiefs to a project
  • 🏥Field HospitalBuild healthcare infrastructure (requires Power Plant for night-op)
  • 🌍SAS CharterEstablishes operational sovereignty on the ground
  • 🔬DiagnoseReveals hidden corruption or disease at any node
  • 🌿Bush PharmacyIntegrates respected traditional DRC medicine into Field Hospitals
Nick — The Grid-Builder
Power · The Grid-Builder

Nick

"Brings the actual current. Lights the country."
  • ⚡Grid CommandReveals all powered nodes + energy flow overlay
  • 🌩️Lightning SurgeTemporary boost to all powered facilities
  • 🛡️Brownout ShieldProtects critical infra from sabotage + outages
  • 🏭Power PlantBuilds region-appropriate generation (hydro/solar/geothermal)
  • 🔌Connect VillageExtends grid (requires Sanctify + Survey + Treaty + Alliance)
  • 🌍Sovereign GridLocks region to domestic supply — anti-Crown-of-Coin
The World We're Building

Real terrain. Pixar-grade rendering.

Below are pre-production concept pieces showing the target aesthetic — real DRC biomes, stylized for a 2.5D engine (Godot 4 + Terrain3D for the Steam release; Phaser for the mobile F2P release). Concept art always lands above what an engine ships; expect the final game to live at ~60–70% of these pieces, with skilled lighting + atmospherics.

Pixar-style concept art of the Congo Basin rainforest at golden hour — river winding through dense palm canopy, misty hills, distant mountains.
Equateur · Salonga National Park

The Congo Basin Rainforest

Where Mama Mabele walks. Where bonobos live. Where the Mother Tree hides somewhere deep — a sacred place the player won't reach until late in the journey.

Pixar-style concept art of the Kivu highlands at dawn — terraced coffee and tea hills cascading toward Lake Kivu, volcanic peaks (Virunga / Nyiragongo) on the horizon.
Kivu · Eastern Highlands

The Eastern Highlands

Where the war's scars are deepest. Volcanic peaks rise over coffee and tea terraces. Where peace was hardest-won — and where the game's hardest moral choices live.

Pixar-style concept art of the Congo River at dawn near Boyoma Falls — wide gold river with rocky outcrops, traditional Wagenia fish traps in the channel, misty forested banks.
Tshopo · Boyoma Falls

The Mighty Congo River

The second-largest river by discharge on Earth. The wooden lattice structures in the channel are Wagenia fish traps — a 1,000-year-old Congolese fishing tradition, still in use today.

Concept art · Pre-production target aesthetic · Real DRC biomes, in development
The Game

Build the country. Heal the land. Refuse the easy lie.

Overhead 2.5D regional sim. A 24-hour day/night cycle. Move the Council across provinces; stack their powers in the correct order; build the infrastructure that lets villages stand on their own. Tier-2 sisters join from every UPTW chapter. Eight provinces unlock on a designed progression. The Hollow King is patient — you have to be too.

🙏
Sanctify Land

Loredana blesses; corruption can't follow.

🗺️
Survey + Map

Eddie reveals; nothing builds on unmapped ground.

⚖️
Treaty + Law

Melissa locks in writing what was promised.

⚡
Power the Grid

Nick electrifies; refining + cold-chain unlock.

🌿
Listen to the Land

Mama Mabele vetoes builds the ecosystem can't carry.

🤝
Ground Coordination

Dr. Elie gets the buy-in that makes it land.

⛏️
Ethical Mining

Defeat the Vein-Born first. Refine in-country.

🕊️
Memorial City

The endgame crown — the proof that peace held.

The Antagonist

Something is hollowing the country from inside.

Five named antagonists. Each takes a different part of sovereignty by force — land, spirit, law, infrastructure, operations. Some you'll fight. Others you'll try to heal. One of them will offer you a deal you'll be tempted to take.

You'll meet them when the time is right.
Mama Mabele's Bestiary

Wild Companions

The DRC's real wildlife — accurate to species — serves as Mama Mabele's allies. Corrupted Hollow Brood, once healed, join her bestiary too. Heal, don't kill.

Bonobo
Endemic · Salonga
The Bonobo

Found only in the DRC. The "make love not war" great ape — quietly the most peaceful primate species on Earth.

Okapi
Endemic · Ituri
The Okapi

The DRC's national symbol. Half-zebra, half-giraffe, fully unique to the Ituri rainforest.

How

Built honestly. Built carefully.

A 3-year-plus pre-production. No racing to ship. No shortcuts on the cultural work. No fake-it-til-you-make-it gameplay screenshots.

01

AI-Augmented, Human-Authored

Concept art, world-building, asset generation accelerated with AI tools — but every design decision goes through a cultural validation pass before it lands in canon. AI is a force-multiplier, not a substitute for judgment.

02

Real Congolese Voices in the Loop

UPTW members, Dr. Elie's network, real DRC consultants reviewing characters, dialogue, and cultural representation. "African voices in dev loop — not optional" is a design law, written into our canon repo.

03

Two Products. One World.

Mboka Mobile — F2P Android, Phaser engine, designed for African mainland reach.
Mboka Academy — Steam premium, Godot 4 + Terrain3D, an educational-grade simulation depth for diaspora and Western audiences. Shared canon. Different art floors. Same story.

04

3+ Year Timeline

Pre-production is locked. Vertical slice (Kinshasa) is the first build target. Tier-A provinces unlock one at a time. We will ship when the work is honest — not when the calendar says to.

Modernization ≠ Westernization

The DRC's future is built by Congolese hands, on Congolese soil, with Congolese governance. Mboka tells that story in the engine. The real work tells it on the ground.

Stay Connected

The journey has just begun.

Mboka is 3+ years from release. The real work — Palm Leaf Partners infrastructure, UPTW programs, Memorial City — is happening now. There's a way to be part of both.

Support the Real Work →
🔒 Private Preview See the in-engine showcase →

Screenshots, the Founders' Action-Window clips, and the full feature breakdown — password required.