Social Games vs Multiplayer Games: A Commentary on Raph Koster's Social Mechanics Presentation

[Editor’s note: Guest columnist Tadhg Kelly has an in-depth review, below, covering a presentation recently given by veteran game developer Raph Koster at the Game Developers Conference happening this week in San Francisco. Please note that in order to follow along with Kelly’s commentary, you’ll need to reference Koster’s original presentation. Please view the presentation itself, here, for reference.]

The excellent Raph Koster delivered a long presentation (190 slides) at GDC on Monday on what he called social mechanics.

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