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

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

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: Unknown

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