You might also indicate that you have been given the rights to your product from your school. In every American and most EU universities, anything you create using their cirriculum, classes, computers, internet connections, etc. means they automatically own rights to whatever you create and can do whatever they want with it (some go as far as to step in and prevent you from selling or profiting in any way since it’s a school project). This is equally important for you and your KS backers.
Also, your overview sounds a lot like Indigenous, just different setting 
Though the public knowledge part of what we’ve been posting in terms of our game design ideas aren’t exactly ‘unique’ given the latest survival craze.