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From: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Subject: Re: Fiction in IF
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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 20:52:52 GMT
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In article <CHxusu.9u8@acsu.buffalo.edu> goetz@cs.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz) writes:
>In article <2eep9q$bf3@agate.berkeley.edu> whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu (Gerry Kevin Wilson) writes:
>>[G.K.W.'s discussion of The Hook deleted]
>
>Take this seriously!  I believe that what killed my adventure _Inmate_
>was that the first puzzle was to figure out what was going on.
>[a bit more deleted]
>Of course, I don't know if that was the problem, since only 2 of my
>damn playtesters ever wrote back...

Ah ha!  So I should add the following to my infamous advertisement:

"*Sigh*  I didn't ask Michael Kinyon to playtest Inmate.  I wish I had.
At least he would have stayed in contact with me to keep me updated
on his progress.  He also would have helped to realize that it didn't
have enough of a hook at the beginning to capture a player's interest.
Yes, if I had used Michael as playtester, I could now be pointing to
Inmate as one of my big successes instead of constantly whining about it 
on my posts to r.a.i-f."
				-- Phil Goetz

(Smileys deleted, as they were in the original ad.)

Michael Kinyon	
Dept of Mathematics & Comp. Sci.    phone: (219)-237-4240
Indiana University South Bend	    fax: (219)-237-4538
South Bend, IN 46634 USA	    mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu
'"Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston - lausajne estas rano en mia bideo", and 
I think we all know what that means.' - Rimmer
