Educational game “PosadiLes” for smartphones and other mobile devices
The forests are vanishing from the surface of the globe approximately at such a speed. Although it seems that our planet is green and Russia has many woods, there are many problems concerning forests both in our country and in the whole world. Forests on the Earth are vanishing at a high rate of 3.3 million hectare per year. The humanity played a crucial role in this. Humans got used to live among useful and comfortable stuff. When buying stuff, we rarely bother where it came from, what it is made of, what resources were spent and whether it was harmful for our planet’s ecosystem. Almost all the stuff in daily human use somehow pollutes the Earth and depletes its resources. And one of the sensitive problems is deforestation. Nowadays, people of the civilized world start realizing this problem. But this process is running very slowly. The forest can restore itself, but it needs much time for it. Most likely modern inhabitants of the Earth will not be able to see this. In addition to that, human urbanistic impact disserves this process. In order to reduce this negative impact, we should show the problem to people through a simple educational game. Our challenge is to develop educational environmental game “Posadi Les (Plant the Forest)” that not only will tell people about the problem, but will also offer the opportunity to plant the forest without leaving home. This game has no age or geographical restrictions, that’s why it has no borders for its scalability. Increasing the number of interested people will help to solve the forest problem in the whole world and make this process sustainable. Environmental game “Posadi Les (Plant the Forest)” is a popular example of gamification that puts its player into the problematics needed and offers him to do the real actions in forest restoration. In this case the player will have two opportunities: to take part in tree planting as a volunteer or to purchase a certificate for planting trees through “PosadiLes.ru” online-service. For us, the forest problem is the most important in our lives as the urban realm keeps growing while the primary nature keeps fading away. For us, the Forest is a pledge for better future as it produces oxygen – the source of life. For us, it is important that our life will go on and our next generations will receive from us the same nature, as we can see it today, and even better.
The forests are vanishing from the surface of the globe approximately at such a speed. Although it seems that our planet is green and Russia has many woods, there are many problems concerning forests both in our country and in the whole world. Forests on the Earth are vanishing at a high rate of 3.3 million hectare per year. The humanity played a crucial role in this. Humans got used to live among useful and comfortable stuff. When buying stuff, we rarely bother where it came from, what it is made of, what resources were spent and whether it was harmful for our planet’s ecosystem. Almost all the stuff in daily human use somehow pollutes the Earth and depletes its resources. And one of the sensitive problems is deforestation. Nowadays, people of the civilized world start realizing this problem. But this process is running very slowly. The forest can restore itself, but it needs much time for it. Most likely modern inhabitants of the Earth will not be able to see this. In addition to that, human urbanistic impact disserves this process. In order to reduce this negative impact, we should show the problem to people through a simple educational game. Our challenge is to develop educational environmental game “Posadi Les (Plant the Forest)” that not only will tell people about the problem, but will also offer the opportunity to plant the forest without leaving home. This game has no age or geographical restrictions, that’s why it has no borders for its scalability. Increasing the number of interested people will help to solve the forest problem in the whole world and make this process sustainable. Environmental game “Posadi Les (Plant the Forest)” is a popular example of gamification that puts its player into the problematics needed and offers him to do the real actions in forest restoration. In this case the player will have two opportunities: to take part in tree planting as a volunteer or to purchase a certificate for planting trees through “PosadiLes.ru” online-service. For us, the forest problem is the most important in our lives as the urban realm keeps growing while the primary nature keeps fading away. For us, the Forest is a pledge for better future as it produces oxygen – the source of life. For us, it is important that our life will go on and our next generations will receive from us the same nature, as we can see it today, and even better.