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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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"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
"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."
Compliment
"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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"The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700."
Fiction
"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."
Choice
"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."
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"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."
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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."
Thought
"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all."
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"You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games."
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"We have to try and not let the little things go by. It's the little things that win games. It's the little things that often get overlooked that can add two or three more wins."
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"I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me."
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"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist."
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"The more games I will play, the faster I will be back on a top spot in the world rankings."
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"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them."
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"I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games."
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"It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform."
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"Like most celebrities, of course, I adore all the Mario games."
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"I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level."
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