Sustainable practices and ecological materials are important for the overall health of the planet, but it is a topic filled with a lot of dry information. Additionally, actually training and getting familiar with these processes also requires some kind of interactive medium to help solidify what's being learned.
The biggest challenge for us here is to figure out, how do we make this information more accessible to the people who will need to deal with this daily?
To begin with, we narrowed down the most important aspects that we wanted to teach the player about. Sustainable packaging, Eco-Friendly cleaning, and safe & sustainable transfer.
After that we break each aspect down into actual actions/interactions, then add on the relevant information we want to teach the player to each action. This means distilling down the information down and presenting it in a way that doesn't interrupt the game flow, but instead joins into it.
It has been an enjoyable experience to be part of the Green Skills project, and help to create new ways of teaching sustainable practices to the workers that need them. Using VR as an educational tool is something we stand by very strongly, and hope that we can continue helping people learn through these games.