DEVELOPING AN RPG FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION

Dear All,

I have always loved Rpgs be it Zelda or Final Fantasy. As a teacher I have always aspired to provide students with flexible and open learning pathways. Now I hope to combine the 2 concepts. I would like to develop a 2d rpg (I have 0 programming skills) Where students can explore a virtual world as a 2d character, interacting with other characters who would set the students tasks (essentially assignments). E.g students avatar walks into a climate lab on a mountain and is asked by a scientist to investigate the correlation between co2 emissions and global warming. There would then be a live we link to a google doc with the activity, or video or other external Web based content.

So my questions to anyone in the know are this:
1. Is there a piece of software paid or free, online or downloadable that would be suitable for this project. Bearing in mind I can't program, I realise I am limited.
2. Is this program able hyperlink to external Web based sites, docs.

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks a heap - I was actually looking at this software. It looks awesome!