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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I was asked to present a talk at ChinaJoy, the equivalent of E3 in China, back in 2004. Since I was told that many folks in China didn't know that much about where online games had come from, I prepared this little survey of the history. It was an odd experience--I actually felt unsure, as I went through the slides, of what exactly I could reference regarding real world history and the development of online, since so much of it related to the history of attempts at player governance in games.Yes, I know the picture that goes with 1975 is not PLATO's Bridge game. But I wanted an image and couldn't find one.
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