English - Mathematician | 1968 -
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Graham Nelson
ArtBelieveYouFollowRopeTwists
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.
GameThinkPossibilitiesFindChoice
At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
EndAprilThemInformCurses
By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
YearNewGamesUpNew YearTwice
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!
WorldBetterNewPageSaidFirst
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
BrokenMeThoughtCareNobodyOut
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.
UnexpectedRepetitionSameOverSoon
I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
EasyWayTryHardOpenLeave
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.
ShoesPastNewGrowingYoungNow
If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.
BestSayTrueGamesWillWay
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.
PeopleGameLibraryYouLookFind
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 receive.
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