Interview – Raph Koster, Co-founder and President, Metaplace
Posted by Lowell Cremorne on January 25, 2009 · View Comments
If the virtual worlds industry has elder statesmen, Raph Koster is definitely one of them. It’s a term he probably dislikes, but the reality is he’s had a direct involvement in some key milestones from text-based worlds (MUDs) through to the present day. After spending some time with his latest project, Metaplace, we took the [...]
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Posted by Lowell Cremorne on June 29, 2008 · View Comments
Metaplace’s Raph Koster has been around long enough to know most virtual world history. He’s raised some interesting points about MUDs and MMOs, stating that the latter have “removed more features from MUD gameplay than they have added”.
One of the hundreds of MUDs still running: Project Carthage
What do you think? Is there truly anything new [...]
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