Raph Koster Quotes

United States, Entrepreneur
September 7, 1971

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 producing a Facebook game platform.

Also known as Game Designer, Author

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

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- Fun
- Games
- Drug
Fun is just another word for learning.

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- Fun

When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.

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- Life
- Feelings
The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

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- Player
- Games
- Strange
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.

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- World
- Brain
- Enjoy
In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

Raph Koster
- Games
- Drug