Has anyone tried out Facade?

Trapper Zoid · 2005-07-11T18:38:35

I've been loosely following the development of Façade for years now, and finally they seem to be finished and have it available for download from their website here (www.interactivestory.net). However, I can't really afford to get a 800 MB download at the moment (due to complex issues regarding my internet connection!). By the way, there's meant to be a curly tail under the c in 'Facade', but I'm having trouble getting it to display in HTML... (Edit: it seems like the ç's are rending now, anyway. Must have been a problem with the preview...) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here had tried it, and what they thought of it, from a game design perspective? For those of you who want to know a bit about Façade without having to go to the website... Quote: Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot. Within this architecture we have built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by computer-controlled characters, in which the player experiences a story from a first-person perspective. Façade was publicly released as a freeware download / cd-rom in July 2005. You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip’s marriage. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the course of Grace and Trip’s lives – motivating you to re-play the drama to find out how your interaction could make things turn out differently the next time.

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Started by Trapper Zoid July 09, 2005 03:40 AM

10 comments, last by Trapper Zoid 19 years, 6 months ago

Anonymous

July 11, 2005 05:23 AM

You dont have to register to download from gamespot. Just use http://www.bugmenot.com/ ;)

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July 11, 2005 06:38 PM

Thanks for the advice about downloading it. I'll be checking it out in a couple of weeks once I can afford to get something that huge.

So has anyone else tried Facade? Is there anything they found that they think would be a good idea to include in our game designs?

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