If you’re seriously interested in hyperfiction, point your browser immediately to the download site for “Architecture, Authorial Idioms and Early Observations of the Interactive Drama Façade.” The Façade project — a collaboration between Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern — is one of the most interesting things happening in the hyperfiction field. This new CMU CS tech report is the best available overview of the project. Here’s their abstract:

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.

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