At the end of April I archived 'Curses'... by Graham Nelson | We Heart Quotes

End April Interactive fiction Adventure games Inform

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

- Graham Nelson

Other quotes by Graham Nelson

People

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

- Graham Nelson

Being

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

- Graham Nelson

Open

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

- Graham Nelson

Open

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

- Graham Nelson

Home First

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

- Graham Nelson

Ambiguity Writing Being

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

- Graham Nelson

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I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

- Diane Sawyer

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

- John Dykstra

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

- Graham Nelson

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

- Mary Wollstonecraft