Facade 1.03

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Publisher's description of Facade

From Procedural Arts: Facade is an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyperlinked 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. Facade was publicly released as a freeware download or 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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  Facade

  Good but big

  by: klaas4 on 04-Mar-2006 04:26:51 AM

  Pros: The idea is good.

  Cons: But WTF! More than 700 MB!!

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  Facade

  Ugliest graphics i've seen

  by: shogunu on 02-Feb-2006 03:24:11 AM

  Cons: Very unpleasant graphics, huge download

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  Facade

  ehhh..

  by: DemonicFilthBox on 03-Mar-2006 04:58:18 PM

  Pros: Concept is cool

  Cons: No matter what you say to them when trying to **** them off, the same thing happens..just get thrown out, the AI is not very intelligent at all, not worth the wait to download.

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  Facade

  Great Game.

  by: cyanidedrinker on 20-Aug-2006 12:45:04 PM

  Pros: Great game. I love games like this. The game is based on what you ask and type. So beware. It's pretty cool.

  Cons: Takes forever to download and if the graphics were a little better, I would enjoy it a lot more.

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  Facade

  great in theory, poor in practice

  by: jbentsman on 12-Jul-2005 10:10:43 PM

  Cons: This is the first of what bodes to be many AI games, which stand to revolutionize the gaming industry. But this game is far too buggy and not nearly as advanced as it need be..... First, it is rather limiting only to be able to write a single short line of text (which I'm sure is presently a technological constraint). Second, the characters quite often misinterpret or don't respond at all to a comment. They seem to be responding to certain words in a comment rather than the entire comment. They are for the most part unable to differentiate between questions and statements. Moreover, when they do understand the statement, their responses are often unrealistic. Also, as this is an AI game, typing answers becomes a crutch, because doing so is much slower than speaking, which- when technologically possible- would be the ideal manner in which a player would respond; one often cannot type in comments quickly enough.

  Again, the idea is great, but the game hasn't been developed enough to be satisfying. I wish the developers would have spent more time working out bugs and making sure the characters can respond realistically to a much wider range of comments. I hope to see much better games from these guys in the future!

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