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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 ]
Ultima Online (UO) is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on September 24, 1997 [1] by Origin Systems.. Set in the Ultima universe, it is known for its extensive player versus player combat system.
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 ".
Many MUDs are still active and a number of influential MMORPG designers, such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, [11] Matt Firor, Mark Jacobs, Brian Green, [12] and J. Todd Coleman, began as MUD developers and/or players. The history of MMORPGs grows directly out of the history of MUDs. [13] [14]
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Metaplace was a software platform intended to democratize the development of virtual worlds, [1] which was later used to make Facebook games. The company was established by Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster.
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.
Roblox (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ⓘ, ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.