Chennai: Aanya and Ria Mehta, seventh graders at Vaels International School, have developed a new environment-themed card game that can be played in multiple ways.

The Environment Game cards are a part of the Arya Play catalogue, which are designed to empower individuals, families and groups by providing deeper insights into themselves that in turn enable proactive life choices.

A press release said, the twins came up with the idea for The Environment Game after noticing numerous environmental concerns during casual beach outings.

Aanya and Ria Mehta began innovating on a new card theme for Arya Play, which was founded by their parents, Sameer and Rochana Mehta.

Working independently, the twins set about doing research across age groups. . Their research enabled them to come up with 92 different concepts for how people can make environmental conservation a part of their daily lives, out of which they shortlisted 50.

The Arya Play games are currently in use by psychologists at a number of local and global companies, including Atlas Global Investments and Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals as an individual assessment and team diagnostic tool.

Sameer and Rochana Mehta say, “The Environment Game created by our daughters’ adds a vital component to the catalogue, about human interaction with nature and our responsibility towards conserving the planet”.

Speaking with the game creators, Aanya and Ria Mehta said, “We wanted to design games that are fun, make us think about how our behaviours impact the environment, and make simple changes that are easy and low cost, which over time may add centuries to our biodiversity and planet”.