Play on-line using Java, with links to background, articles about the game, and hints and walkthroughs. [Requires frames.]

Capsule review, information, and downloads.

Author's page about the game, with background on its making and thoughts on multilinear interactive fiction and non-player character conversation.

"Play this game. Then, write your own. Pour your heart and soul into it. Cast it upon the waters, and you may indeed receive it back a hundredfold." By Jonathan Rosebaugh.

Play Galatea on-line.

"It's unquestionable that this character represents a quantum leap--in intelligence and in vividness of personality--and that the author did it with essentially the tools that every author has. Designers, consider the goalposts moved." By Duncan Stevens.