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Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Game designer, author, speaker
  • Way cool

    Hours May 31, 2006May 31, 2006 Categories Game talk
    Comments 31 Comments

    Over in Second Life, a user has created an emergent artificial life simulation that grows plants, rains, and so on.

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  • For Richard Bartle

    Hours May 30, 2006May 31, 2006 Categories Game talk
    Comments 5 Comments

    In response to this, may I suggest

    this
    ? No sketching required.

    [Edit: link fixed.]

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  • First sale

    Hours May 30, 2006May 30, 2006 Categories Game talk
    Comments 24 Comments

    Lately, it seems like a lot of folks in the game industry are talking about ways to get rid of used game sales. There was the rumor about Sony not permitting used games with PS3, which was denied. There’s been plenty of talk about how used game sales and rentals are damaging the game industry among game devs. Even academics are talking about how to reduce resales. Witness this question posed to the rant panel at GDC in 2005:
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  • Façade Player Survey

    Hours May 30, 2006 Categories Game talk
    Comments 1 Comment

    I’m behind on this one, but I always like to link to folks doing surveys, so everyone: if you played Façade, go take the Façade Player Survey and help out the creators!

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  • Search box update

    Hours May 29, 2006 Categories Misc

    Minor thing, but I switched the search box here on the site from a blog-only search box to one of the Google ones, so that you can search the entire site, blog posts included. I keep seeing search results that are looking for things that are actually on pages in the Gaming section.

    You’ll have to set the radio button to search this site only if you want to confine your search to here, but in my tests it’s picked up everything in the blog as well as elsewhere on the site.

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