[Pronouns: he/him] Raph Koster is a veteran game designer who has been professionally credited in almost every area of the game industry. He’s been the lead designer and director of Ultima Online (one of the first MMOs to reach $1B) and Star Wars Galaxies. He founded a successful metaverse company called Metaplace, sold to Disney Playdom and he’s widely respected as one of the greatest social designers of sandbox games. His book A Theory of Fun for Game Design is one of the undisputed classics in the games field and was recently revised for a 10th anniversary edition. In 2012, he was named an Online Game Legend at the Game Developers Conference Online. Founder/CEO of Metaplace; executive at Sony and Disney.