This means keeping many trails open at o... by Graham Nelson

Open Inform Adventure games Interactive fiction

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

Other quotes by Graham Nelson

First World

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

- Graham Nelson

April End

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

- Graham Nelson

Months Past Now

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

- Graham Nelson

Games

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

- Graham Nelson

Choice

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.

- 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

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