Façade

July 5, 2005 Procedural Arts Procedural Arts
Simulator Adventure Indie
PC Mac
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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.
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Release Date July 5, 2005
Developer Procedural Arts
Publisher Procedural Arts
Game Modes Single player
Perspective First person, Text
Themes Drama