I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
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.
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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 how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.
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At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.
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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.
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