Interactive Drama Prototype 'Facade' Released

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 6, 2005 @12:09AM 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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Re:Wrong name by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-06 03:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well, I wouldn't know about American spelling...

But the Oxford online dictionary's entry for "façade" only has the alternative spelling in an american quote. So I guess we're talking different languages.