Re: Can I make money by writing IF?


Sat, 25 Nov 1995 02:27:29 GMT

dmb@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) wrote:

>Do you realize how frustrating these kinds of comments are? We spend 5
>years writing IF and improving the tools, and you just step in and write it
>off in a single paragraph. I know it's become fashionable to bash TADS,
>but really: give me specific examples of parser problems. I've played lots
>of text games, and the TADS games have historically had margainally
>*better* parsing than their Infocom/Inform equivalents.

Without question. And as an aside, I seriously doubt the platform
support issue is any real impediment to sales. Supporting lots of
systems might be a nice touch, but one suspects that anything besides
DOS and MacIntosh is demographically irrelevant.