Development of Serious Board Game Encouraging Awareness of Supply and Benefits of Forest Ecosystem Services through Roleplaying Forestry Activities Named “The Forest-est: Challenge of Forester Aiming the Highest Quality Forest”

Abstract

It is required encouraging awareness to forest ecosystem services of providers and beneficiaries in terms of cross-understandings of each perspective. There is still few methods and tools to support encouraging awareness in the forest environmental policy field. This article reports that contents and design of serious board game to provide opportunity to understand between forest related people and general public. In this article, following game contents were reported: aim of the game, game design, components of the game, process of the game. This paper also reports results of questionnaire survey for players of the game to improve the fame. The survey conducted in the lecture of a university and the respondents can be treated as general public. The results of the survey showed certain recognition of players, but it also addressed some limitations of the game.