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Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Game designer, author, speaker
  • Mini-State of Play reports

    Hours December 3, 2006 Categories Game talk
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    There’s a small symposium happening under the aegis of the State of Play conference, this weekend in New York. I’m not there, but the ubiquitous Daniel Terdiman is. And his reports are appearing on CNet, links and excerpts below. In addition, there’s a bit of news about a State of Play Academy. There doesn’t seem to be much on the blogosphere yet.

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  • Reverse Guitar Chord Name Finder

    Hours December 2, 2006 Categories Music
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    Why have I never seen this tool before?

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  • Lost posts restored…

    Hours December 2, 2006December 2, 2006 Categories Misc

    Bloglines had ’em all. Thanks, Juliette and Tony!

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  • What teens and tweens want in avatars

    Hours December 2, 2006 Categories Game talk
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    An interesting post over at YPulse about what people of different ages want in avatars. If I read it correctly, the researcher says that

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  • Games for Change Closing Address

    Hours December 2, 2006December 2, 2006 Categories Game talk
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    The audio from the Games for Change conference back in June has been released. Lots of stuff here including Bob Kerrey and Steven Johnson.

    There’s also my closing address (MP3, hosted there), of course. I’ll get around to transcribing it at some point, I suppose. But here’s a local streaming version:

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