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[DMczaf]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/facade/index.html

http://www.interactivestory.net/

Using your own name and gender, Facade has you play the longtime friend of a married couple. An evening get-together turns ugly and you're soon entangled in the high-conflict unraveling of their marriage.

:lol I gotta play this! *downloads*

 

[The Shadow]

Allow me to the be the first to say, WTF?

 

[truesayian]

800 megs for the download....


come on... no demo or anything..........

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

This is incredible! I've already played the scenario through three different times and each time was surprisingly unique. This is the true Emotion Engine.

The game exports your game log into stageplay form in a txt file. I thought about posting the funny parts, but I don't think it would capture the hilarious socially awkward situations I put my character through. Here's a sampling anyway:

PHONE
** RING **

(Trip closes the front door.)

GRACE
Oh, I'll get it --

TRIP
No, no no no, our friend's here, we can let the answering machine get it.

PHONE
** RING **

GRACE
Trip, no, I want --

TRIP
Grace, come on, don't be rude. -- (interrupted)

MATT
i got it

TRIP
What? Wait, wait, let's just wait for the answering machine...

PHONE
** RING **

PHONE
** RING **

(MATT picks up the phone.)

PHONE
Hello? Hello?

TRIP
Matt, no! Don't do that.

PHONE
Who is this? Travis, is that you? This is your mother.

MATT
Hello

TRIP
Uhh, that's my mother, I can hear her loud voice.

PHONE
I don't recognize your voice...

GRACE
Oh!

PHONE
I -- I think I have the wrong number... ** click **

TRIP
Okay, she's confused, as usual... just -- just hang it up.

MATT
please die

(MATT puts down the phone.)

TRIP
uh, um...

GRACE
uh...

TRIP
that's, um...

GRACE
(nervous coughing)

TRIP
what...

TRIP
ha ha...

GRACE
ha ha ha ha ha, heh...

TRIP
heh, ha ha ha!

GRACE
ha ha ha ha!!

TRIP
Ha ha ha, Matt,

GRACE
heh heh...

TRIP
heh heh, you had me going there for a sec...

MATT
old hag

TRIP
heh, ha ha...

TRIP
Never afraid to push your luck, heh heh heh...

TRIP
put us on the spot...

TRIP
heh heh, you're crazy, heh, you know that?

TRIP
ha ha...

TRIP
(big sigh)

MATT
When are you two going to divorce

TRIP
Anyway, uh... what -- what were we talking about?

 

[Ghost]

dammit, i cant get grace to run away with me. :lol

 

[Zaptruder]

It breaks too easily.

It's impressive in some ways, considering the budget and the resources, but it's still very rough... and it's obvious that they're not as clever as you'd like them to be.

Ultimately, if you want intelligent conversation from a computer, you'd have to build a language parser that understands context and to do that... you'd have to make it learn and understand other things that make up each specific context.

Why, that'd pretty much be a person.

Anyway, I was trying to tell them, you focus on materialistic things too much, you need marriage counselling...

but they just looked at me confused.

 

[lexi]

(LISA kisses grace.)

TRIP
(nervous coughing)

GRACE
uh...

TRIP
what...

GRACE
(nervous coughing)

TRIP
whoa, that was, uh...

GRACE
ha ha ha ha ha, heh...

TRIP
heh, ha ha...

TRIP
heh, ha ha ha!

GRACE
ha ha ha ha!!

TRIP
Ha ha ha, heh, Lisa,

GRACE
heh heh heh...

TRIP
you're, heh, something else... heh... never afraid to...

TRIP
put us on the spot...

TRIP
heh heh, you're crazy, you know that?

TRIP
ha ha...

TRIP
(big sigh)

DAMMIT

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Anyway, I was trying to tell them, you focus on materialistic things too much, you need marriage counselling...

but they just looked at me confused.

Yeah I tried to tell them they were too materialistic, but they didn't really understand. When I mentioned marriage counselling Trip goes "Counseling? See that's what I've been telling her!"