Artificial Intelligence In The Game Façade

Facade is an art-based artificial intelligence / research experience in electronic narrative an attempt to go beyond the traditional narrative branching or hyper-linked to create a full account in an interactive theater event.

Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five-year collaboration to design a novel architecture for supporting emotional behavior, the interactive nature and the dramatic plot management.

Within this architecture we have built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D world inhabited by virtual characters controlled by the computer, in which the player experiences a story from a ...