Quotes by 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 game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game. (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 game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means theres no neat division of the prologue from the middle game. (Graham Nelson)

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large. (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 inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! (Graham Nelson)

I have been working on a more serious game, called Jigsaw, for about 18 months, but don't hold your breath. itll be a while arriving. (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 as soon as they are understood or passed over. (Graham Nelson)

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

If pushed, though, Id say that the next stage will be reached when it its no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980s on the way to that. (Graham Nelson)

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)

Im 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)