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Raph Koster
Raph Koster
Game designer, author, speaker
  • GDC 2006 Wiki

    Hours March 21, 2006 Categories Game talk
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    Hopefully, this GDC 2006 Wiki will become the place to go to get summaries of sessions. And if you are at GDC, please contribute!

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  • GDC day one

    Hours March 20, 2006 Categories Game talk
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    I didn’t take notes, and I was also in and out of the tutorial on “Social dimensions of digital games.” This will perforce be brief.

    “Games are to computers as birds are to dinosaurs.” – Julian Dibbell. Discuss.

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  • Off to GDC today

    Hours March 19, 2006 Categories Game talk
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    I’m heading out to GDC later tonight. I will be there all week. This year, the luck of the draw was that I have a lot of meetings and not much talking to do. The only presentation I will be a part of will be on Monday afternoon, part of the “Social Dimensions of Digital Gaming” tutorial — some sort of game show panel thing that I am going into blind thanks to the nefarious offices of Eric Zimmerman…

    Because of this, I am also unsure how many sessions I will attend, but I’ll try to blog whatever I make it to that sounds interesting! I expect I may see some of you while I am there too.

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  • The Sunday Poem: Wandering Near Nazca

    Hours March 19, 2006March 19, 2006 Categories The Sunday Poem
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    The following is a true story from my childhood in Peru, except that the incident didn’t happen near the Nazca lines — I don’t recall if it happened on a trip to Ica or just out in the desert on the outskirts of Lima.

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  • Places I’ve been

    Hours March 18, 2006March 18, 2006 Categories Misc
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    I’m doing pretty good on states:

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