#am

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large. ↗

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

#best #games #i #longer #next

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

#cars #crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #driven

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

#changed #early #fiction #format #fundamental

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

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

#conceivable #curses #decent #getting #gone

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#doing #free #grateful #i #i am

My family was my guide to my reality. ↗

— Haywood Nelson

#guide #reality

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#anything #cannot #direct #done #field

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ↗