A deliberate choice on my part was for t... by Graham Nelson

Choice Adventure games Inform Interactive fiction

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

Other quotes by Graham Nelson

Now Being People

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.

- 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

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

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

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