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 secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#apparently #ask #commands #complaint #debugging

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

#adventures #atom #blowing #bubble #computer

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

#discovered #fairly #inevitably #keeping #many

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

#attention #career #decision #end #enjoy

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

#being #context #different #far #general