Facade 1.03

Facade 1.03 is an exciting game which can bring you a chance to experience an interactive drama with artificially intelligent characters. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, there have been completed a five-year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot. Within this architecture it has been built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by computer-controlled characters. 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.