Computer Science Department
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Architecture, Authorial Idioms and Early Observations
of the Interactive Drama Façade
Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern*
December 2002
CMU-CS-02-198.ps
CMU-CS-02-198.pdf
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 are
completing a three year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture
for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and
drama-managed plot. Within this architecture we are building a
dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by
computer-controlled characters, in which the user experiences a story
from a first-person perspective. Façade will be publicly released
as a free download in 2003.
33 pages
*InteractiveStory.net
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