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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Graham Nelson Graham A. Nelson (born 1968) is a British mathematician and poet and the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction (IF) games. He has also authored several IF games, including the acclaimed Curses (1993) and Jigsaw (1995), using the experience of writing Curses in particular to expand the range of verbs that Inform is capable of understanding. He has been described by The New York Times as "ornately literate." Nelson... Read full biography of Graham Nelson → 1 2 Ctrl → I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. 0 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... → 0 At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than... → 0 Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of... → 0 By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large. 0 I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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