You use the keyboard to communicate with Grace and Trip and to answer their questions. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the course of Grace and Trip's lives – motivating you to re-play the drama to find out how your interaction could make things turn out differently the next time. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip's marriage. You, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. Façade was publicly released as a freeware download/CD-Rom in July 2005. Within this architecture we have built a dramatically interesting, real-time 3D virtual world inhabited by computer-controlled characters, in which the player experiences a story from a first-person perspective.
Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot.
Here's what the developers wrote about the game:įaçade 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. But very soon it becomes clear that their relationship is somewhere near a breakdown and it's your task to find out what's going on and to help them (or to destroy their relationship if you like that better). You take the role of a friend of a married couple who is invited to their appartment to have some cocktails and a dinner with them. The fact that they do not really do anything makes them even more unnerving than if they actually did."Façade" is an interactive stageplay. All of a sudden these kids, well I think they are kids appear and start following you around. The reason I say that is because you are wandering around thinking that you have seen all that the game has to offer. It plays old creepy radio transmissions and songs backwards (actually the name Sad Satan is a reference to a song being played backwards) the sound is perhaps the creepiest part of the game…. The sound design though is what really puts the game over the edge. Images of really weird stuff pops up like JFK just before he was shot and British child molester Jimmy Saville. This hallway, house or whatever the heck it is called is super creepy. In a way, it reminds me of that P.T thing that was released on PlayStation 4 a few years back. You wander along a hallway and you will be teleported to different locations at what feels like random points in the game. Sad Satan from what I experienced does not seem to have an actual point to it.
One rumor I read was that the Obscure Horror Corner made the game to try and drum up interest in the channel, but there is no real proof of that. As far as I know, there is still no concrete answer to what this game is, where it came from and who made it. The origins of the game were kind of “mystic” in that no one for sure knew exactly where the game came from although some did try and take credit. The channel streamed the game and reported very strange things happening to their computer. I am a big fan of horror and murder mystery type stuff so I actually found the whole backstory of how Sad Satan was discovered more interesting than the actual game itself.īasically a few years back Obscure Horror Corner, a YouTube channel claimed that they were sent a link to a “deep web” site that contained this game called Sad Satan. The Backstory Is More Interesting Than The Game!ĭigging into the back story of Sad Satan was one of the most interesting things I had done in a while.
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