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Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Game designer, author, speaker
  • Looks like pjio is back

    Hours March 29, 2007 Categories Game talk
    Comments 1 Comment

    This was “one of the other YouTube for games” sites. Unlike Kongregate, pjio is for arbitrary executables, not Flash games. So the indie game developer community that develops in well, whatever, can upload stuff there. The downside is there’s a plugin required to play stuff. That said, you gotta check out the insane Bullet Candy if you like shooters. 🙂

    pjio™ – Free video games – upload, tag, share and play games.

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  • Hugo nominees are out

    Hours March 29, 2007 Categories Reading
    Comments 1 Comment

    Click here.

    I have only read two of the five novel nominees, guess I have some catching up to do! Glasshouse is sitting on my shelf waiting though.

  • Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)
  • Eifelheim, Michael Flynn (Tor)
  • Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Ace)
  • His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik (Ballantine Del Rey; Voyager as Temeraire)
  • Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
  • BTW, congrats especially to Naomi Novik — game developers know her as one of our own, formerly of Bioware. 🙂

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  • ETech07: The Core of Fun

    Hours March 29, 2007March 29, 2007 Categories Game talk
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    I have uploaded the slides for my keynote at Etech 2007. You can get them in two ways:

    • Read it as a webpage, with lots of images to load.
    • Download the PDF (1.9MB)

    While I was at it, I put up links to “Influences” and “Where Game Meets the Web” on the Presentations page. Any others I have missed?

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  • ETech07: coverage of my talk

    Hours March 28, 2007 Categories Game talk
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    I’ll try to post the slides tomorrow, but in the meantime, here’s the write-ups. You should be able to get a pretty good sense of what I said in aggregate 🙂

    http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/28/raph_koster_describe.html

    http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2007/03/etech_07_raph_k.html

    http://graemethickins.typepad.com/graeme_blogs_here/2007/03/etech_day_2_the_1.html

    http://celso.arrifana.org/2007/03/28/etech-2007-session-the-core-of-fun/

    http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/03/the_core_of_fun_ralph_koster.shtml

    http://www.downtheavenue.com/2007/03/fun_is_a_chemic.html

    http://depts.washington.edu/etech/?p=31

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4752

    http://artific.com/202/2007/03/etech_2007_day_2_am_sessions/

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  • ETech07: Seth Raphael & Indistinguishable from Magic

    Hours March 28, 2007March 28, 2007 Categories Misc
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    Seth Raphael – MIT

    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.

    What does it mean? We have a very very tiny idea of what technology is here. Using your hands is a kind of technology.

    Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

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