The research team have been working with children from two schools (one primary and one secondary) within The Mersey Forest area to bring children aged 8 to 13 years into the design of an online game where children can learn about some of the key principles of tree care and planting valued by the Mersey Forest.
Through a series of practical workshops with school children, we have co-created characters, a gaming narrative and environment using ideas about real and imagined treescapes. These have gone on to be used as the basis for a Roblox game. Roblox was chosen owing to the platform's popularity with children, meaning the game we created would likely reach a wider audience.
