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

The whole Web
Raph's Website


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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Leo knew better. He was twenty-two, not twelve. He’d seen the warning labels, the pop-ups that promised free streams of the movie everyone was talking about—Neon Drift—the one rated 18+ for "extreme violence and disturbing themes." But he was bored, his usual sites were down, and the thumbnail showed a cyberpunk cityscape drenched in bloody light.

Child's Play


A Theory of Fun
for Game Design

Cover of A Theory of Fun

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After the Flood

Cover for After the Flood CD

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Gratuitous Penguin 2006 Wall Calendar

Gratuitous Penguin 2006 Wall Calendar
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