Reg:
On 20/08/2005, at 9:49 AM, Reg Whitely wrote:
Hi WAMUGgers
This looks absolutely fascinating but is not yet available for mac.
http://www.interactivestory.net/
(Thanks to Kim Flintoff on echalk list for this lead)
"Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment
in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional
branching or hyper-linked 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. Façade was
publicly released as a freeware download / 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."
I had a look at it on a Windows machine and it's an intriguing
concept but like all AI, it doesn't pick up the full breadth of human
interaction. It helps that Grace and Tip are already so self-focused
and arguing with each other, that you don't notice the lack of human
nuance. Still, you have to experience it...
Cheers, Glen Low
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