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The Best of Raph Koster’s Web Site
If you’re interested in game design, you should know Raph Koster. Full stop. Koster made his reputation working on Ultima Online and augmented it through his work on Star Wars Galaxies (where he worked as Chief Creative Officer). To my mind, though, some of his greatest contributions come via his writing on games and game [...]
Continue reading...Are You Really Going to Argue That Reality ISN’T Broken?
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I’ve been noticing some backlash against Jane McGonigal’s book Reality is Broken. Interestingly, many of the jeremiads launched against it, and the idea of “gamifying” reality that it proffers, have come from game designers, game theories, and avid game players. Outsiders seem to be able to take McGonigal’s claims with the requisite grain/dash/heaping tablespoon of [...]
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