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Raph Koster Has a New Book Out: #Postmortems #UO #SWG #UltimaOnline #StarWarsGalaxies #LegendMUD #MMORPG

Raph Koster has some big news: he has just published a new book, entitled Postmortems, which contains articles, stories, and essays about his career in the gaming industry and the various titles he has worked on over the years.

This is the first volume of a projected three that gather together many of the essays and writings that I have been sharing on this blog over the last several decades.…

Raph Koster on Ultima Online's Influence #UO #UO20th

Raph Koster — the original systems designer for Ultima Online — offered, you’ll hopefully recall, to answer questions about that game as a way of marking its 20th anniversary, which milestone was reached last month. True to his word, Koster has now answered the first of the questions he received…and, true to form, he has written quite a lot in so doing. This is the first question I’m answering…