From 23d3abb35183c0304e851a6301c1bac82a8b2931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Penner <jeremy@sporktania.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:42:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] first cut at authors notes

---
 timemachine.xml | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/timemachine.xml b/timemachine.xml
index ba322a6..da54671 100644
--- a/timemachine.xml
+++ b/timemachine.xml
@@ -130,5 +130,27 @@
   		</verb>
   	</word>
   </section>
+  <section name="notes">
+ 	<nev name="start">
+ 	  <h2>Author's Notes</h2>
+ 	  <p>
+ 	  	Hi there.  That's all I've got for now.  Thanks for trying my silly game.
+ 	  </p>
+ 	  <p>
+ 	  	There are two UI ideas at play in this prototype.  The first is that it might be interesting to see what 
+ 	  	happens when we get rid of the parser, and simply give the player the ability to know what she is capable of
+ 	  	doing at any particular moment in the game.  I don't believe that every game should follow this path, but
+ 	  	I don't see any reason why we can't create rich and interesting worlds by doing so.  What appeals to me about
+ 	  	this idea is not just the simpler interaction from the user's perspective, but the ability to have greater
+ 	  	control of what you have to model.  If something is not important to your game, you simply don't present the
+ 	  	option to the player, and she is not frustrated because she no longer has any way of trying it.  Conversely,
+ 	  	if an interaction is subtle or non-standard, you don't need to worry about the user not being able to guess
+ 	  	the verb -- the verb is there; you just need to make it interesting.
+ 	  </p>
+ 	  <p>
+ 	  	The second is that 
+ 	  </p>
+ 	  <b><a href="javascript:location.reload()">Restart game</a></b>
+  	</nev>	
   </section>
 </story>