Then in my early teens, when the home co... by Graham Nelson

First Home Inform Adventure games Interactive fiction

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

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

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

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

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

Decision End

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

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