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Welcome to Raph Koster's personal website: MMOs, gaming, writing, art, music, books.

Essays
These are full-blown essays, papers, and articles.

Presentations
Slideshows and presentation materials from conferences.

Interviews and Panels
Reprints of non-game-specific interviews, and transcripts of panels and roundtables.

Snippets
Excerpts from blog, newsgroup, and forum posts.

Laws
The "Laws of Online World Design" in various forms.

Timeline
A timeline of developments in online worlds.

A Theory of Fun for Game Design
My book on why games matter and what fun is.

Insubstantial Pageants
A book I started and never finished outlining the basics of online world design.

Links
Links to resources on online world design.

All contents of this site are
© Copyright 1998-2010
Raphael Koster.
All rights reserved.

The views expressed here are my own, and not necessarily endorsed by any former or current employer.

The Destiny of Online Games

This was one of the four keynotes presented at the Korea Games Conference in 2005. You can comment here on the blog if you like.

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You can comment here on the blog if you like.

A Theory of Fun
for Game Design

Cover of A Theory of Fun

After the Flood

Cover for After the Flood CD

Available on CD
$14.99

More stuff to buy

Gratuitous Penguin 2006 Wall Calendar

Gratuitous Penguin 2006 Wall Calendar
$18.99

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