Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
Graham Nelson Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 1968 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Mathematician, Poet, Programmer |
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Graham A. Nelson is a British mathematician, poet, and computer programmer. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has also authored several IF games, including the acclaimed Curses and Jigsaw, using the experience of writing Curses in particular to expand the range of verbs that Inform is capable of understanding. He is the author of the Inform Designer's Manual, which includes one of the first published works of interactive fiction theory, an essay titled "The Craft of Adventure". He co-edited Oxford Poetry and in 1997 received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for his poetry.
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