Compliment Quote by Graham Nelson

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…

— 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…

— Graham Nelson

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show,…

— Graham Nelson

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

— Graham Nelson

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

— Graham Nelson

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

— Graham Nelson

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the…

— 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 ambiguity.

— Graham Nelson

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…

— 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…

— Graham Nelson

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…

— 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…

— Graham Nelson