Raph koster biography
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My name is Raphael Koster, and I'm currently a game designer living in San Diego, California. Over to the right you can see an old picture of me, taken while playing guitar over at a friend's house. The main differences these days are that my hair is cut short, and I'm at least 50 pounds heavier from sitting at a desk all day. Oh, and the guitar playing has gotten better.
I've got a wonderful family: my wife Kristen (shown to the left) is staying at home raising our two kids, Elena, age 10, and David (9). She's got a website up with tons of pictures of them, if you are willing to put up with a long wait as your web browser downloads them:
Elena in her early months
More baby Elena
David, her younger brother
A very brief version of my life would go something like this: I was born on Long Island in September of 1971, moved to Massachusetts at an early age, and went through half of grade school there. Then my mother started working for UNICEF, and I ended up living for six years in Peru. After that it was Barbados, and then a brief stint in Haiti. During this time, my dad moved to Tennessee, Georgia, and then Florida. Then I came back to the States to finish high school in Flor
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Raph Koster at the Web 2.0 Conference in 2005 | |
| Born | September 7, 1971 (1971-09-07) (age 53) Long Island, New York |
| Occupation | Game designer |
| Spouse(s) | Kristen Koster (1992—) |
| Children | Elena Koster David Koster |
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 and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies. Since July 2006, he has been working as the founder and president of Metaplace (previously operating as Areae) producing an upcoming platform for online games also called Metaplace.
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Koster attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, receiving a Bachelor's degree in English (Creative Writing) and Spanish in 1992. The same year he became involved with MUDs as an implementor in LegendMUD, where he was known as Ptah. He also played MUME for a time. On May 10, 1992, he married Kristen Koster who would later work alongside him at Origin Systems as a game designer.
In 1995, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and joined Origin Systems as the lead designer of Ul
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