Graham Nelson

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

— Graham Nelson

#believe #directions #follow #i #really

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

— Graham Nelson

#april #curses #end #i #inform

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

— Graham Nelson

#games #grown #had #inform #into

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

#broken #care #emailed #follow-up #fortnight

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

#different #discarded #elements #employ #form

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

— Graham Nelson

#hard #i #leave #make #many

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

#every #few #got #growing #having

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

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

#best #compliment #disagree #easy #fight

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