It has been challenging to find ways to educate people to have better environmental consciousness. In some cases, people do not know what the right behaviors are to protect the environment. Game engine has been used in the AEC industry for visualization. However, it has barely been used in environmental consciousness education, for example, what operation can reduce building energy consumption, what items are recyclables. As social psychology studies show that video game can influence human behavior, a good designed game should provide the game player with right incentives and guide the users to make wiser choices for better environmental protection. This paper discussed a method to use serious game engines to educate the players the right actions that should be taken under in different scenarios. These actions in real life will results in a better environmental protection. The game proposed in this study is for residential home operation. Other scenarios such as restaurant operation, grocery store operations are discussed as expansion of this study. The game players points will be calculated based on their performance on different choices and when they surpass a certain level, different rewards will be gained in order for them to adjust their current living style. The purpose of the game is to raise the environmental consciousness among the game players and educate them the right actions they can make to better protect the environment while they are spending time on games.

翻译：在如何教育人们提升环保意识方面一直面临挑战。部分情况下，人们并不清楚保护环境的正确行为。游戏引擎已在建筑、工程与施工行业用于可视化，但鲜少应用于环保意识教育，例如哪些操作能降低建筑能耗、哪些物品可回收利用。社会心理学研究表明，电子游戏能影响人类行为，设计精良的游戏应为玩家提供正确的激励机制，引导其做出更明智的环保选择。本文探讨了一种利用严肃游戏引擎教育玩家在不同场景下应采取的正确行为的方法——这些行为在现实生活中将带来更好的环境保护效果。本研究所提出的游戏针对住宅生活场景，并讨论了餐厅运营、杂货店运营等其他场景作为研究的拓展。玩家得分将根据其在不同选择中的表现计算，当超过特定等级时，可获得不同奖励以调整其当前生活方式。该游戏旨在提升玩家的环保意识，并在游戏过程中教育他们可采取的正确行动，以更好地保护环境。