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Design for Retention", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/08/15/upcoming-talk-systems-design-retention/", "published_at": "2016-08-15T18:02:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd67-a753-73f7-bde9-f269f1178ca3", "title": "A Poke-roundup", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/07/19/a-poke-roundup/", "published_at": "2016-07-19T18:02:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd67-a753-73f7-bde9-f269f1d88163", "title": "I really did mean “MMO”", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/07/14/i-really-did-mean-mmo/", "published_at": "2016-07-15T01:26:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd67-a753-73f7-bde9-f269f2b69b43", "title": "AR is an MMO", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/07/11/ar-is-an-mmo/", "published_at": "2016-07-11T20:54:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd71-4923-7045-a73b-d7038b8cb89b", "title": "The Limits of Formalism, my talk from BIRS", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/05/23/the-limits-of-formalism-my-talk-from-birs/", "published_at": "2016-05-23T21:32:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd71-4923-7045-a73b-d7038c662764", "title": "My Cycle of Life talk from Helsinki", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/05/02/my-cycle-of-life-talk-from-helsinki/", "published_at": "2016-05-02T19:21:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd71-4923-7045-a73b-d7038d1b2503", "title": "Slides for my GDC Flashbackward segment", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/03/21/slides-for-my-gdc-flashbackward-segment/", "published_at": "2016-03-22T01:18:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd71-4923-7045-a73b-d7038ddbfcb3", "title": "Books on writing", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/03/05/books-on-writing/", "published_at": "2016-03-05T23:37:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd71-4923-7045-a73b-d7038e938db6", "title": "GDC and Flash Backward", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2016/03/03/gdc-and-flash-backward/", "published_at": "2016-03-04T01:32:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7f-7c9f-728b-8409-5cc0dd310e9d", "title": "A Sunday Poems update", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/12/06/a-sunday-poems-update/", "published_at": "2015-12-06T20:01:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7f-7c9f-728b-8409-5cc0ddf8929e", "title": "Video: Teaching to Fish (Sweden Game Conference)", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/11/10/video-teaching-to-fish-sweden-game-conference/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T16:42:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7f-7c9f-728b-8409-5cc0de850003", "title": "My new book: Sunday Poems", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/11/08/my-new-book-sunday-poems/", "published_at": "2015-11-08T23:52:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7f-7c9f-728b-8409-5cc0df0aff86", "title": "Teaching to Fish: Sweden Game Conference", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/09/19/teaching-to-fish-sweden-game-conference/", "published_at": "2015-09-20T00:14:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd7f-7c9f-728b-8409-5cc0dfc7d010", "title": "PAXDev Game Grammar talk", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/09/09/paxdev-game-grammar-talk/", "published_at": "2015-09-09T21:03:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd92-3905-73d8-b384-c24410caf2a2", "title": "Off to PAX", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/08/25/off-to-pax/", "published_at": "2015-08-25T17:15:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd92-3905-73d8-b384-c24411579b4a", "title": "MMORPG.com interview", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/07/15/mmorpg-com-interview-2/", "published_at": "2015-07-15T17:31:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd92-3905-73d8-b384-c244123f2d9e", "title": "Games affecting people", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/06/30/games-affecting-people/", "published_at": "2015-06-30T19:35:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd92-3905-73d8-b384-c24412f1388c", "title": "Game design vs UX design", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/06/29/game-design-ux-design/", "published_at": "2015-06-29T17:39:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dd92-3905-73d8-b384-c244132a1d5f", "title": "Games vs Sports", "url": "https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/06/22/games-vs-sports/", "published_at": "2015-06-22T18:24:41+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

Recommended posts, 2017-2025original ↗
26 Nov 2025
Looking back at a pandemic simulatororiginal ↗
16 Nov 2025
Game design is simple, actuallyoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2025
Stars Reach visual upgradesoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2025
New stuff on the siteoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2025
Site updatesoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
Stars Reach doesn’t look like you rememberoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2025
One week of Stars Reach Kickstarteroriginal ↗
3 Mar 2025
STARS REACH Kickstarter funded in 1 houroriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
STARS REACH Kickstarter is live noworiginal ↗
25 Feb 2025

2024

Flooding Gaiamaroriginal ↗
14 Dec 2024
Old movement stuff for STARS REACHoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2024
The first players land in Stars Reachoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2024
The neverending griefing discussionoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2024
Using a vision exercise to define what Stars Reach is aboutoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2024
SR Pillars three: the vibe!original ↗
24 Jul 2024
SR Pillars Part 2: Easy Surface, Much Depthoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2024
Stars Reach Pillarsoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2024
Wishlist STARS REACH and its living worldoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2024
Announcing Stars Reachoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2024
GDC talk: Revisiting Funoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2024

2023

Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2023

2022

Ultima Online’s 25th anniversaryoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2022
Sandbox vs themeparkoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2022
New paper applies predictive processing to “what is fun?”original ↗
12 Aug 2022
GLS 2022 Keynote postedoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2022

2021

Ownership: How Virtual Worlds Work, part 5original ↗
21 Oct 2021
Object Behaviors: How Virtual Worlds Work part 4original ↗
14 Oct 2021
Digital Objects: How Virtual Worlds Work part 3original ↗
7 Oct 2021
Building the Metaverse sessionoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2021
How Virtual Worlds Work, part twooriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
How Virtual Worlds Work, part oneoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2021
But First, the Gameoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2021
Revealing Playable Worlds technologyoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2021
Online world or metaverse?original ↗
2 Sept 2021
Thinking long-termoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2021
Designing for Social Playoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
Player-driven economiesoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
The Future of Online Worldsoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2021

2019

Best practices for community engagementoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2019
What drives retentionoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2019

2018

Mailbag: Parts of an MMOoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2018
Micael Priestoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2018
GameCamp and Tabletop talks now uporiginal ↗
13 Jul 2018
POSTMORTEMS is outoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2018
New book POSTMORTEMSoriginal ↗
31 May 2018
UOForever livestreamoriginal ↗
1 May 2018
GDC18 videosoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2018
UO postmortem from GDC2018original ↗
28 Mar 2018
The Trust Spectrumoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2018
My GDC scheduleoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2018
Favorite game designs from 2017original ↗
10 Feb 2018
Why I loved “Edith Finch”original ↗
6 Feb 2018
My AAAI Workshop talk on game depthoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2018
The cost of gamesoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2018
2017 Year in Revieworiginal ↗
1 Jan 2018

2017

Some current game economicsoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2017
My GameUX Summit keynote: (Dis)Assembling Gamesoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2017
Ultima Online’s influenceoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2017
Video of UO 20thoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2017
Ultima Online is Twentyoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2017
What old tennis players teach usoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2017
Consent systemsoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2017
Slides for my FDG17 talk on Reconciling Gamesoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2017
Simple Maps improvementsoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2017
The Sunday Poem: Made of Moonoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2017
SDCC Game Creator Connectionoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2017
Mailbag: Action Combatoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2017
The Internet as existential threatoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2017
The best posts of the last five yearsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2017
Microvision emulator releaseoriginal ↗
7 May 2017
Podcast with Keith Burgunoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2017
Recent videos & interviewsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2017
Commentary on “Still Logged In”original ↗
15 Mar 2017
Video of my GDC talk “Still Logged In”original ↗
14 Mar 2017
Slides for “Still Logged In,” my GDC talkoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2017
Some updatesoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2017

2016

My UAH talk: Digital Bardsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2016
A fish tank game interview with Markee Dragonoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2016
My AGC talk on Retention and Systems Mathoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2016
The Sunday Song: World Trade Centeroriginal ↗
11 Sept 2016
Upcoming talk: Systems Design for Retentionoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2016
A Poke-rounduporiginal ↗
19 Jul 2016
I really did mean “MMO”original ↗
15 Jul 2016
AR is an MMOoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2016
The Limits of Formalism, my talk from BIRSoriginal ↗
23 May 2016
My Cycle of Life talk from Helsinkioriginal ↗
2 May 2016
Slides for my GDC Flashbackward segmentoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2016
Books on writingoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2016
GDC and Flash Backwardoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2016

2015

A Sunday Poems updateoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2015
Video: Teaching to Fish (Sweden Game Conference)original ↗
10 Nov 2015
My new book: Sunday Poemsoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2015
Teaching to Fish: Sweden Game Conferenceoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2015
PAXDev Game Grammar talkoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2015
Off to PAXoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2015
MMORPG.com intervieworiginal ↗
15 Jul 2015
Games affecting peopleoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2015
Game design vs UX designoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2015
Games vs Sportsoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2015