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Interactive Drama Prototype 'Facade' Released

Posted by timothy on from the calculon-approves dept.

rafg writes "In most story-based games where you get to talk to characters, interaction is limited to selecting conversation options from a menu. Facade calls itself a one-act interactive drama, and is an attempt to create realistic 3D AI characters acting in a real-time interactive story, where you can talk to them via a natural language text interface. The player is cast as a visiting longtime friend of Grace and Trip, a couple in their early thirties, and ends up in a verbal crossfire resulting from their failing marriage. More info in the press release, an older conveniently mirrored NYT article and an Idle Thumbs review. It's available in the form of a rather chunky 800MB torrent."

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  1. This is a game??? by j0e_average · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cripes!!! If I want to hear a bunch of drama and nagging, I'll go listen to my own family!!!

  2. Sounds like fun! by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    The player is cast as a visiting longtime friend of Grace and Trip, a couple in their early thirties, and ends up in a verbal crossfire resulting from their failing marriage.

    If the AI is advanced enough, maybe I can seduce Grace, talk her into killing Trip, and then turn her in for the virtual reward!

  3. Here we go again.. by CCelebornn · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Slap silly woman
    I DO NOT KNOW THE WORD "SLAP"

    > Tell silly woman you can keep the dog but that playstation is mine
    I CANNOT DO THAT

    > Kill woman
    YOU ATTACK WOMAN, BUT THE EFFORT IS WASTED. HER DEFENSIVE IS TOO STRONG
    WOMAN ATTACKS YOU
    WITH ONE WELL PLACED BLOW WOMAN CLEAVES YOUR SKULL
    YOU ARE DEAD
    YOU HAVE MASTERED 0.0% OF THIS ADVENTURE

  4. Re:NOOOOOO! by Musteval · · Score: 3, Funny

    nono, see, this is new. Here, there aren't wizards. There's *D*R*A*M*A*!

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    Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.
  5. Oh Boy, SimVirginia Wolfe! by Nova+Express · · Score: 3, Funny

    GeorgeBot: Don't toy with me, MarthaBot. I don't remember.
    MarthaBot: You laughed your ass off the last time.
    1337 H@x0r: God, you old people are really boring! Can't you, like, kill some zombies or something?

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    Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)

    http://www.lawrenceperson.com/

  6. LJ by lisaparratt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't Danga get there first with LiveJournal?

    Wait...

    You're telling me they're real people?!?! :S

  7. Meanwhile, at the AI Clinic, bugs are tested. by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Player: I came here for a good argument.

    AI: No you didn't, you came here for an argument.

    Player: Well, an argument's not the same as contradiction.

    AI: It can be.

    Player: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition.

    AI: No it isn't.

    Player: Yes it is. It isn't just contradiction.

    AI: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.

    Player: But it isn't just saying "No it isn't".

    AI: Yes it is.

    Player: No it isn't, an argument is an intellectual process... contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

    AI: No it isn't.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.