"This means keeping many trails open at once,……" — 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, don't tell."
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19 Quotes by Graham Nelson
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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…
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At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
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I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways.…
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I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of…
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Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn…
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
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What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars,…
— Eric Cantor
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When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did…
— Jimmy Carter
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One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its…
— Unknown Author
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
— Carl Sagan
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling…
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the…
— John of Damascus
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped…
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