CHAPTER 12
Raph Koster
Raphael “Raph” Koster is an award-winning game designer and creative director, whose work on Ultima Online for Electronic Arts and Star Wars Galaxies for Sony Online Entertainment has generated revenues exceeding more than a half-billion U.S. dollars.
A pioneer of massively multiplayer online games, Koster is regarded as one of the video game industry’s foremost authorities on games. His book A Theory of Fun for Game Design, published in 2004, is now a classic text used in classrooms around the world.
In 2006, Koster left his position as chief creative officer at SOE to start Metaplace, a venture-backed ...
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