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Koster: Why games teach lessons we shouldn’t always heed
In his packed GDC China keynote in Shanghai, ‘A Theory Of Fun For Game Design’ author and online game veteran Raph Koster gave a stirring discussion on the nature of games, philosophizing: “Games are more like an algorithm than anything else.” Koster’s inspiring – if somewhat tricky to write up – talk focused on why games are such fascinating beasts. Along the way, he attempted to define the unique brain-altering and emotion-triggering nature of today’s …
