RPG Fanatic interview
Carey Martell (The RPG Fanatic) interviews legendary game designer Raph Koster (Ultima Online, Everquest II, Star Wars Galaxies) about the past, present and future of online games.
Links discussed in this interview:
Mr. Koster’s website
https://www.raphkoster.com/
LegendMUD
http://www.legendmud.org/
MUD-Dev mailing list archive
https://www.raphkoster.com/2007/02/02/…
Mr. Koster’s book, A Theory of Fun for Game Design
http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Fun-Game…
Social Mechanics for Social Games presentation
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014555/…
The GDC Vault will eventually contains his GDC Online 2011 presentation, “It’s All Games Now” which is discussed several times in this interview. The link will be posted here when it is available for viewing.