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.
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambigu… - Graham Nelson
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambigu…
- Graham Nelson
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 … - Graham Nelson
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 …
The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compare… - Graham Nelson
The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compare…
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can r… - Graham Nelson
Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can r…
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups. - Graham Nelson
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
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 ne… - Graham Nelson
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 ne…
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-tracki… - Graham Nelson
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-tracki…
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 t… - Graham Nelson
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 t…
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, appar… - Graham Nelson
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, appar…
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