SimFaux is an Interactive Faux News Simulation Game, a parody of Fox
News, now online and FauxCasting from the Huffington Post Contagious
Festival!
SimFaux is like a cross between The Sims and Mystery Science Theater,
that lets you sit back and channel surf, or take control and create
your own Faux News TV programs! It's pronounced "Sim Foe", of course!
Free live interactive SimFaux Simualtion Game (requires Flash,
preferably version 8):
http://SimFaux.cf.huffingtonpost.com
Screencast and demo video:
http://www.SimFaux.com
I just posted the latest version of SimFaux, which currently has:
8 Simulated Characters with graphics and sound bites:
Arianna Huffington
***** Cheney
George W Bush
Frank Zappa
Ann Coulter
Al Franken
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Bill O'Reilly
Channel Surfing (8 different channels with many different programs)
Create your own TV program:
Select any character, video feed to other information to display in
each frame.
Invite any character onto your show.
Tell characters to talk, shut up, go away.
WebCam Support:
Put yourself on-screen and interview and argue with the characters!
Streaming Video Clips with keyword triggers.
Video backgrounds and overlays.
Keyword driven AI simulation:
All content is tagged and triggered with keywords,
used by simulation to decide which video clips and sound bites to
play.
Keyword display:
See active keywords, hide and focus on keywords to drive simulation
Meaningless graphs and chart-junk.
Interactive surveys with loaded questions and ballot box stuffing.
Teleprompter talking points with reference links so you can really
decide for yourself.
Faux Chat simulated Internet chat room:
All character sound bites go into chat.
Amusing chat logs with keyword triggers that effect simulation.
Type text and keywords into chat to reply to characters and effect
simulation.
SimFaux is written in OpenLaszlo, which is an Open Source
XML/JavaScript based programming language for rich zero-install AJAX
web applications:
http://www.OpenLaszlo.org
SimFaux is a constantly evolving open-ended simulation game, which
makes it easy to drop in new content (movies, characters, sound bites,
text talking points, chat transcripts) all tagged up with keywords, so
they play off of each other!
I want to enable other people to start FauxCasting their own stuff! So
I will soon publish the source code for SimFaux as Open Source, to
serve as an OpenLaszlo programming example, and so other people can
modify it an add their own content, videos, characters, sound bites,
games, etc! Please check the site http://www.SimFaux.com for more
information.
I am continuously adding more late breaking content and
up-to-the-minute news, so please check back again later, and tell your
friends about SimFaux!
-Don Hopkins (dhopkins@DonHopkins.com)
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