Quotes by Raph Koster

About Raph Koster:

Raphael "Raph" Koster is an American entrepreneur, game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design. Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of Ultima Online and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies. From 2006 until 2013 he worked as the founder and president of Metaplace (previously operating as Areae and acquired by social gaming company Playdom in 2010, which was in turn acquired by Disney) producing a Facebook game platform.
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Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

Raph Koster

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

Raph Koster

It's about who owns the servers. The servers that store your metrics. The servers that shout the ads. The servers that transmit your chat. The servers that geofence your every movement.

Raph Koster

It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.

Raph Koster

Author Bio

  • NameRaph Koster
  • DescriptionAmerican video game designer and entrepreneur
  • AliasesRaphael Koster
  • BornSeptember 7, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician