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The Gamers4Nature project (University of Aveiro, Portugal) aims to develop and implement strategies capable of encouraging the active participation of young audiences (upper-seconday and undergraduate students) in the creation of games for mobile devices, as a way to promote a change in behavior and environmental awareness, fostering knowledge about environmental conservation and biodiversity.
The Toolkit to Game Design is an instrument to support the process of game narratives’ creation, being aimed at users with or without experience in programming, design or other game creation’s field. It consists of game elements cards (GCCS - Game Construction Cards Set), thematic cards of environmental issues, a document to support the construction of the narrative which gives a possible guidance on the use of GCCS (RGDD - Rapid Game Design Document) and also the packaging that guides the use of the Toolkit. This kit can be used in an educational context, in brainstorming and ideas’ discussion, in workshops and in Game Jams sessions.
"A starting point for creating games"
Through the exploitation of the resources developed to support the game creation process, users are challenged to build games that are capable of raising a greater preservation of nature and biodiversity awareness. Regardless of the context of its use, the Toolkit allows even an inexperienced user to create a game narrative that, directly or indirectly, fosters knowledge about an environmental issue.
