Re: Bill of Rights and Inform


15 Nov 1995 06:21:59 GMT

Joe Mason (joe.mason@tabb.com) wrote:
: JL>Anyway, the second thing. There's that game I mentioned. While it won't be
: JL>be my first piece of if (I've game mastered for 13 years and that is in
: JL>fact interactive, rather than a simulation), it will be my first computer

: You'll find that the writing is a lot different from GMing. :-) I
: found that out as soon as I started writing mine.

Not actually. Having written my game, it wasn't at all very different than
something I'd GM, just more detailed (I tend to make stuff up on the fly
when GMing). Now I don't know if it'll work as a IF game, and unfortunately
no one will ever know. 4/5 done with the coding, I don't think I can do
any more--getting to the hard stuff and despise programming too much.

I'll just have to take what I've typed and make it a short story, though
it'll suffer (an interesting question in itself--if has a lot of exposition,
is in the second person (which causes bizarre writing), and has (or
should have) a solid main character but NO character persona).

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