You Must Play Facade, Now!
 

A new video game called Facade has just been released to the public. I'll say this right up front: Facade is one of the most important games ever created, possibly the most important game of the last ten years. More important than The Sims; more important than Grand Theft Auto; far more important than Half-Life. If you are a game designer, or you want to be a game designer, you must play this game.

Are Adams' superlatives deserved? Well, Facade does make dramatic leaps in terms of how a story in a video game can be told. The game casts the player as a friend of married couple Grace and Trip; you arrive at their apartment as they are going through some marital rocky waters. Over the course of the game, you can help them get back together, drive them further apart, hit on one or both of them--you do whatever you want. You can say anything you want to them too, because the game uses a natural text parser, certainly the best anyone has put in a game. Facade uses procedural methods to interpret what your typed text means and what affect it will have on Grace and Trip; they respond with body language, facial expressions, and recorded speech.

The game is available for free from http://www.interactivestory.net
[ 800Mb ]

As designers Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas are quick to point out, the game is just an experiement. It was entirely designed and programmed by the two of them over five years. As such, the game's visuals are rudimentary, but the important elements (facial expressions and body language) are well-represented and easy to read. One can break the illusion of reality in the game by deliberately being a jerk and typing nonsense, but when doing so the characters react much more realistically than, say, the NPCs in HL2's scripted sequences...

rock:

eh, the graphics on the website are teh suk.

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":6b269]eh, the graphics on the website are teh suk.[/quote:6b269]
You played the game yet? -1

nice update miyagi. looks addictive

guns online owns too rock:

Downloading right now, sounds like it is going to be humorous.

Me: "Hey bitch, deepthroat my cock."

Girl: "Excuse me?"

Time for some "Y HELO THAR BUTTSECKZ? LOLOL" moments.

HAHA! The possibilities are endless.....

"Yuo is teh suck."

"Fuck a dude."

[quote="mr.miyagi":7a5e3][quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":7a5e3]eh, the graphics on the website are teh suk.[/quote:7a5e3]
You played the game yet? -1[/quote:7a5e3]

No, but telling from this image [img]http://www.interactivestory.net/facadeimages/facade_2gracegreets_thumb.jpg[/img] I don't like these types of graphics. -1

i'm going to play the part of a part time marriage therapist who practices butchery as a hobby and trick the two into having sex up the butt.

when i first entered i told the husband his ass was tight and sexy, and then i hit on his wife followed by repeating SHUT THE FUCK UP. they kicked me out cry:

this is fucking awesome

LMAO, was that game over, or could you go fuck with them some more after that, like bust the door down with an axe screaming, "TIME TO GET FUCKED!!1111"

it was over. if you fuck shit up good theyll just kick you out and then thats that.

Found this on gamefaqs, shortest game:

[quote:ccc38]TRIP
Where are the new wine glasses?

(Al knocks on the front door.)

(Al knocks on the front door.)

(Al knocks on the front door.)

GRACE
What?! You said he's coming an hour from now! -- (interrupted)

TRIP
Oh, he's here!

TRIP
No, he's right on time!

GRACE
Trip...!

(Trip opens the front door.)

TRIP
Al!!

TRIP
Hi! It's so great to see you! -- (interrupted)

AL
die

(Trip closes the front door.)



He didn't even bother kicking me out, he just closed the door in my face then the screen faded :(
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lmfao, is this worth the download? Sounds funny to me....