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Raph Koster is a veteran game designer who has been professionally credited in almost every area of the game industry. He's been the lead designer and director of massive titles such as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies; and he's contributed writing, art, soundtrack music, and programming to many more titles ranging from Facebook games to single-player titles for handheld consoles.

Koster is widely recognized as one of the world's top thinkers about game design, and is an in-demand speaker at conferences all over the world. In 2012, he was named an Online Game Legend at the Game Developers Conference Online. Visit his blog at .
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One week of Stars Reach Kickstarter


Wow, it has been an intense six days.

We launched on Tuesday, which feels like an eternity ago. It’s a mad scramble to get everything done, make sure you have all the content ready, to answer the huge inflow of questions, find all the spots where you weren’t quite clear enough� but you just survive on little sleep and keep pushing. And sometimes you get a good result!

Last night

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One week of Stars Reach Kickstarter

Wow, it has been an intense six days.We launched on Tuesday, which feels like an eternity ago. It’s a mad scramble to get everything done, make sure y Read more of this blog post »
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“That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.”
Raph Koster, A Theory Of Fun For Game Design

“Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.”
Raph Koster, A Theory Of Fun For Game Design

“Consider the games that get all the attention lately: shooters,* fighting games,* and war games. They are not subtle about their love of power. The gap between these games and cops and robbers is small as far as the players are”
Raph Koster, Theory of Fun for Game Design




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