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It’s been over five years since the last time I gathered up recommended posts in one place and added them to the menu above. I figured I was due.

As usual this will include talks and interviews as well as articles. Just think of it as “my take on what the best stuff to look at on the site is.”

Previous collections of recommended ...

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It’s been six years now since the early days of the Covid pandemic. People who were paying super close attention started hearing rumors about something going on in China towards the end of 2019 — my earliest posts about it on Facebook were from November that year.

Even at the time, people were utterly clueless about the mathematics of how a highly ...

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So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.

One: Fun

There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not useful for getting better at makin...

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For months now, we have been working on a big overhaul to the visuals in Stars Reach. This has involved redoing most of the shaders in the entire game, and going back and retouching every asset. We started by redoing all the plant life and flora, and we have hundreds of those assets t...

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I really have been neglecting the blog lately. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been adding content to the site all along. I figured it might not hurt to do a little summary of items that have been added over the last year and a half or more. The last talk I posted up was href="https://www.raphkoster.com/games/presentations/revisiting-fun-20-years-of-a-theory-of-fun/" data-...

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