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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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"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."
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"But men have loved darkness rather than light."
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"Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light."
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"Choice is always the driving factor in life."
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"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
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"Every choice has the potential to change the course of a life."
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"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."
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"If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it."
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"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"
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"Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel."
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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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"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all."
Art
"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."
People
"This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell."
Open
"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!"
First
"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."
Thought
"At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups."
April
"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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"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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"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."
Games
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