With a deep sandbox world and a focus on player-driven freedom, Raph Koster's latest project looks to recapture what made ...

Stars Reach, the new sandbox sci-fi online game coming from Playable Worlds, aims to be the next big sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign ...

Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster Raph Koster, in his book Theory of Fun for Game Design, tries to understand the concept of fun and its function in games. Koster considers games to be ...

If anyone knows how to make a good MMO, it's Raph Koster. From serving as the original creative lead and lead designer on Ultima Online, to the creative director of Star Wars Galaxies, Koster ...

The game is coming from studio Playable Worlds, led by Raph Koster, one of the lead creators of MMO classics like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Stars Reach is putting a heavy emphasis on ...

MMO pioneer Raph Koster, best known as Ultima Online's lead designer and Star Wars Galaxies creative director, says the enduring success of World of Warcraft has had a negative impact on the genre ...

T he golden age of MMOs is no more—while it does still get new entries as a genre, we're long past the gold rush of the early 2010s, where it seemed like everyone and their mum ...