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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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"We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions."
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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
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"It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined."
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"The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice."
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"Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?""
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"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"
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"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."
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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."
People
"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."
Home
"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
"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."
Months
"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."
Time
"I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once."
Open
"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."
Decision
"At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups."
April
"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
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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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