Project Purpose
Fable Fort was created with love for my nieces and nephew. For my senior capstone, I wanted to create a solution to a problem that I face: reading stories with young family members virtually. Fable Fort allows you and your little ones to create your own stories using our deck of illustrated story cards in combination with our video calling app. Limiting screen time is on a lot of parents’ and caregivers’ minds, which is why our illustrated story cards feature cutouts to create projected images using our Fable Flashlight, so the screen isn’t the main focus.
Fable Fort allows you to connect with the little ones in your life through storytime, no matter how near or far. Fable Fort uses specially designed story cards to create your own tales for endless story combinations and creations! The Fable Fort app allows you to schedule a story time with a loved one while integrating seamlessly with the projected story cards.
Fable Fort Kit: The starter kit comes with three card sets, a card holder, a flashlight, and heavyweight drawer box for storage.
Mobile App: Join or schedule a fable video call, listen to a fable from your library, and more!
Projectable Cards: The Fable Fort cards have cutouts that can be projected on to a wall with your flashlight to create more opportunities for imagination.
The Logo
I made the Fable Fort logotype by cutting out letters of paper to mimic the cutouts of the projectable story cards. The logo mark represents a fort and a flashlight. For a kid, a fort is a place to use your imagination and create memories and a flashlight lends perfectly to the story cards. The four battlements at the top of the fort represent my three nieces and one nephew.
The App
Our app is your hub for story time. Here, you can schedule a story time with someone in your fort and record a story together, record a story by yourself to send to someone, or listen to a previously recorded story.
Features
• Hidden end call button—we know how much kids love to press the red button!
• Word of the day to expand vocabulary
• Parental safety controls
• Read aloud messages for those not at reading level
Fable Fort Main App Walkthrough
Fable Fort Video Call Walkthrough
The Cards
A card set included two types of cards: character and action cards. The character cards were designed to encourage your story to speak about emotions; the action cards give the characters things to do and move the story along. The hippo and bird were inspired by the nicknames of my nieces and nephew; the activities cards are inspired by things our family likes to do.
The Fable Fort cards have cutouts that can be projected with your flashlight. This takes some of the focus away from a phone screen to help keep the child engaged and interested in the story. It also creates more opportunities for imagination and story time fun. The card set also comes with an instruction card to help you create memorable stories!
Desktop Site
To get started with Fable Fort, head over to our e-commerce site. Here, you can learn about how fable fort works, shop the products and get your starter kit. You can even sign in to access your library of previously recorded fables.
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