Danielle

About

Danielle is a first-year student at her local college together with her childhood friends, Hannah and Emily. It’s a great time for Danielle; she’s finally been given freedom, responsibilities, and the chance to meet new people, in fact she’s been lucky enough to meet a guy, James, and they’ve started dating. It’s new and exciting, exactly the way that love is supposed to be – the perfect romance!

At least, it was.

It started out innocently enough when James wanted to know who she was hanging out with and where she was going, but lately he’s been acting differently. He quickly becomes jealous when Danielle spends time with her friends instead of him and she’s beginning to worry about what might happen if she upsets him. Would things escalate further? How will he react? These are the hard questions that are starting to loom in Danielle’s mind, and her friends aren’t making it easier; Hannah keeps telling her to get rid of James, but Emily says he’s just being protective.

This is a serious game designed as an intervention around gender-based violence and tells the story of Danielle and James and how their relationship changes. Play mainly as Danielle as she struggles with self-esteem, peer pressure and strained friendships and help her make the choices that she may be too afraid to make for herself. You will also play as James, allowing you to consider how his attitudes, behaviours and actions impact on Danielle, while hearing the input of your friends throughout.

Features

- Play as Danielle, James and Hannah as they discover the true impact their actions can have in the context of social media, a relationship and mental health.

- Explore several environments including Danielle’s home, the college, a café and more.

- See how the story unfolds across 5 Chapters of fully voiced dialogue and cutscenes drawn from animated motion capture of a live cast of actors.

Minimum/recommended hardware specification

CPU	Ryzen 5 3500U (Four cores, eight threads @ 3700Mhz) or equivalent
GPU	AMD Vega 8 (onboard), GeForce MX150 or equivalent – dedicated preferred
Memory	8GB DDR4 RAM minimum
Hard drive	3GB free space
Operating System	Windows 10 installed

Educator, teacher or facilitator?

Please find the accompanying curriculum resources in the download section as a pdf file. If you have any feedback that you'd like to share with us it would be greatly appreciated and can be left via this Google Form.

Please Note

This game was developed by the None in Three Research Centre, based on research with real survivors and perpetrators of gender-based violence in the UK during 2018-19. The game is intended for use with young people aged 14 and up in a school or other facilitated educational setting. Being a serious game it deals with some sensitive and potentially upsetting themes. The game was evaluated through a trial with young people in the UK in 2021 and was shown to have a positive impact on them. However if a young person is affected by the subject matter covered in this game please refer to the sources of support signposted at the start of the game. For any general feedback we'd love to hear your thoughts via this Google Form.