[Newspoetry] Interactive drama Façade released

[Andrew Stern]

The interactive drama project Façade has been released to the public, after
it began development 5 years ago.  Download it for free at
http://www.interactivestory.net.

Here is an announcement for its release.
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/2005/07/05/facade-is-released/

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.

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.

Façade requires Windows XP / 2000 / ME, on a computer 1.6 GHz or faster,
with 256MB or more of RAM and 1.0GB of hard disk space. A Macintosh version
is planned for some point in the future.