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.
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Raphael Koster.
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This talk was delivered as a Magistral Conference at CICOMP07, Ensenada, Mexico; in Spanish, of course, so the slides are too. It is basically a combo of "A Theory of Fun" and "The Core of Fun" talks aimed at a novice audience of students.
