Quotes by Graham Nelson - Page 1

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
April
Curse
Ends
Announced
Curses
Inform
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I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Easy
Puzzles
Range
Trying
Way
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I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Art
Believe
Rope
Twists
Directions
Follow
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By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
New Year
Produce
Twice
Grown
Inform
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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 / Mathematician
Home
Adventure
Computer
Primitive
Teens
Writing
Acorn
Adventures
Atom
Blowing
Bubble
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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 / Mathematician
Ambiguity
Different
Resolution
Sensitivity
Writing
Context
Major
Undertaking
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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 / Mathematician
Adults
Months
Past
Shoes
Stage
Young Adult
Adult
Inform
Pleased
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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.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Compliment
Disagree
Fighting
Games
Player
Best Fight Game
Receive
Widely
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The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Fiction
Format
Fundamentals
Interactive
Novel
Way
Fundamental
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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.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Broken
Broken Heart
Care
Follow Up
Fortnight
Emailed
Posted
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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.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Reached
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This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Mean
Plot
Should
Trails
Fairly
Announced
Discovered
Inevitably
Parallel
Requiring
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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.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Different
Discarded
Elements
Repetition
Understood
Unexpected
Way
Employ
Passed
Recur
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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 / Mathematician
Careers
Decision
Player
Inadvertently
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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 / Mathematician
Games
Impression
People
Secret
Winning
Me Game People
Apparently
Game Me People
Commands
Complaint
Frequent
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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 compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.
Graham Nelson / Mathematician
Decent
Gone
Plot
Use
Compared
Curses
Hamlet
Inform
Suppose
Mainly
None
Planned
Sequel
Shape
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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 / Mathematician
Atmosphere
Deliberate
Division
Neat
New Possibilities
Rooms
Attic
Builds
Possibilities
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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 / Mathematician
Alphabet
Hello
Lines
Shifting
Understood
World Better New
Hour
Inserted
Page
Screen
Suddenly
Text
Toy
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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 / Mathematician
Crisis
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Driven
Games
Issues
News
People
Setting
Furnished
Wearing
Look Game People
Houses
Include
Missile
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