Your main objective when playing is to kill the evil “Chameleon.” However, in order to do so, you need to find and destroy four tears that can only be found by exploring the lands. Everything in this game feels like a classic. You even have to control the game via the number keypad.

The game takes you back to the BBS era and lets you explore the land of Vulteria. Your job is to kill off the evil wizard that has the capacity to change shape, hence dubbed as “The Chameleon.” The wizard’s whereabouts are actually well-known but he was wise enough to seal himself in a barrier which requires four tears, scattered all across the land, in order to break it.

Collecting the tears won’t be a piece of cake but with a little magic and some tenacity, you should be able to pass through the various obstacles. Although the game very old school, there’s still a lot of fun in here. The simplicity of the game and the geeky BBS makes this game a must-try for plenty of geeks out there.

Those who are used to hardcore graphics and rendering would do best to stay away. If you don’t like reading text, then you won’t find anything entertaining about this game either, but those who actually know what a BBS is, are bound to like this one.

Related Links:
Blood of the Chameleon Official Website
Blood of the Chameleon on Indie Games

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 have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed plot.

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. Façade was publicly released as a freeware download in July 2005.

From interactivestory.net.

Since then, the game has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, received multiple awards and rave press reviews. Watch Facade’s trailer and see it in action.

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. 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. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. 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.

Procedural Arts, an independent studio formed by artificial intelligence researcher/developers Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas. (…) Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, Mateas and Stern have completed a five-year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture for supporting emotional, interactive character behavior and drama-managed story. Within this architecture they 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.

From interactivestory.net.

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Related Links:
Procedural Art’s Website