![]() ![]() 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. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. It was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the. 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. Faade is an artificial-intelligence-based interactive story created by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. 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. Facade was publicly released as a freeware download or cd-rom in July 2005. 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. 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. Facade is an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyperlinked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. ![]()
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