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The North America Association for Environmental Eduacation (NAAEE) anticipates that environmental awareness education can cultivate knowledge, values, commitment, and skills required that will ensure the protection of the environment and will make new behavioral patterns toward the domain. Dissimilar to developing countries, where kids below 11 years old have shown little to no awareness of environmental issues, kids in western locations like the U.K. have shown care prior to environmental awareness \cite{castellano2001relationship} \cite{zualkernan2009role}. \cite{Zualkernan_2009}.  In \citet{zualkernan2009role}'s \citet{Zualkernan_2009}'s  study, They design, implement and evaluate a role-playing game that can teach children with ages 8-12 years old regarding environmental awareness. The game involves problems on water pollution, desertification and shortage of non-renewable resources. The player will determine each problem by picturing its consequences and by cooperating with other non-playing characters (NPCs) that have struggled because of these problems. The game consists of three stages where each stage is based on a story that is common to an environmental problem. The first stage is called the cave and it is based on a story about water pollution. The player will look for other players who have suffered from water pollution and will then fight with the creatures that is responsible for the problem. The second stage of the game is named axioms and it is based on a story about desertification. The player will interact with other players who shares their story about desertification. The player is guided by a falcon that helps the player look for different kinds of plant and tree seeds that can be used for planting which will be planted in the deserted arena. The third stage is called Blottwood village. It is based on the story of non-renewable resources shortage. In this stage, the player founds out that a creature is stealing the village's resources. The player will have to defend the village from the creature so that the problem will be solved \cite{zualkernan2009role}. \cite{Zualkernan_2009}.