Fairytale Beastmode App

Design Challenge

To narrate a problem within a fairytale space and come up with a creative solution.

Problem Space

In this exercise, as part of an Interactive Narrative course, I choose to focus on Beauty and the Beast as my problem space. The Beast, who suffers from behavioral ailments such and anger and depressive episodes, needs to find a way to improve his mental health.

Research

Anger Management in the U.S.a.

Almost a third of people polled (32%) say they have a close friend or family member who has trouble controlling their anger.
More than one in ten (12%) say that they have trouble controlling their own anger.
More than one in four people (28%) say that they worry about how angry they sometimes feel.
One in five of people (20%) say that they have ended a relationship or friendship with someone because of how they behaved when they were angry.
58% of people wouldn’t know where to seek help if they needed help with an anger problem.

Depression in the U.S.A.

Affects over 18 million adults (one in ten) in any given year.
Is the leading cause of disability for ages 15-44.
Is the primary reason why someone dies of suicide about every 13 minutes. – over 41,000 people a year.
In comparison: homicide claims less than 16,000 lives each year, according to 2013 CDC statistics.