
Raph Koster
@raphkoster
ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, @PlayableWorlds. THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. AFTER THE FLOOD. @[email protected]
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http://www.raphkoster.com 05-02-2009 04:09:16
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Hubert perfecting waterfalls (terraforming + heated instaformer blocks to geyser the water) This is in an MMO yall… bonkers Stars Reach Raph Koster Playable Worlds leric Stars Reach Vault



Stars Reach keeps subverting my preconceived notions of player/community motivation in #ugc #metaverse #sandbox #mmo spaces This is GUNC guild’s little enclave - a communal effort of a bunch of players (guild members and not), terraforming, creating land bridges, planting


Digging these early player communities emerging in Stars Reach from Raph Koster & co. Writes bliargh (C.U.E. 📹): "[They've built] across various planned pre-alpha testing server wipes, for months, just for the love of building, together." More here + video: nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/st…
![Wagner James Au (@slhamlet) on Twitter photo Digging these early player communities emerging in <a href="/PlayStarsReach/">Stars Reach</a> from <a href="/raphkoster/">Raph Koster</a> & co. Writes <a href="/Bliargh/">bliargh (C.U.E. 📹)</a>:
"[They've built] across various planned pre-alpha testing server wipes, for months, just for the love of building, together."
More here + video:
nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/st… Digging these early player communities emerging in <a href="/PlayStarsReach/">Stars Reach</a> from <a href="/raphkoster/">Raph Koster</a> & co. Writes <a href="/Bliargh/">bliargh (C.U.E. 📹)</a>:
"[They've built] across various planned pre-alpha testing server wipes, for months, just for the love of building, together."
More here + video:
nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/st…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gp5hztcawAAF7NL.png)



Excited to share this guest post by bliargh (C.U.E. 📹) exploring Stars Reach from Raph Koster & Playable Worlds, and discovering how the sandbox MMO's creative community of players is helping build an escape from the Internet's growing generic AI slop. 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/st…


Stars Reach game director Dave Georgeson talks material density, XP rates, and skill trees 🔗 massivelyop.com/2025/05/08/sta… #StarsReach Stars Reach






