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Raphael "Raph" Koster (born September 7, 1971) 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 [ 1 ] and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies . [ 2 ]
It was the most game changing update yet including: offering players the ability to custom design their game homes, a server area that doubled the amount of player housing available, and overhauled the item system. Ultima Online was the first MMORPG to reach the 100,000 subscriber base, far exceeding that of any game that went before it. [29]
The Legend of Mir 2: China South Korea 2D (sprite-based) Fantasy: Free-to-play: 2001: European and North American servers closed 2009 and 2012. The Legend of Mir 3: Closed 2D (sprite-based) Fantasy: Pay-to-play: 2004: 2012 Sequel to The Legend of Mir 2: Lineage: Asia 2D (sprite-based) Fantasy: Pay-to-play: 1998: North American servers shut down ...
[10] [12] Indeed, before the invention of the term MMORPG, games of this style were simply called graphical MUDs. A number of influential MMORPG designers began as MUD developers and/or players [13] (such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, [14] Matt Firor, and Brian Green [15]) or were involved with early MUDs (like Mark Jacobs and J. Todd Coleman).
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Koster wrote "A Story About a Tree", a short essay and epitaph about the death of a LegendMUD player named Karyn. An investigative journalist later disproved evidence of Karyn's death. [ 6 ] Richard Bartle considered the incident to be a key event in the development of virtual worlds' ethics, similar to " A Rape in Cyberspace ".
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions.
Simutronics is an American online games company whose products include GemStone IV and DragonRealms.It was founded in 1987 by David Whatley, with husband and wife Tom & Susan Zelinski.