# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raph-koster
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:21.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raph-koster"
name: "Raph Koster"
slug: "raph-koster"
description: "Raphael \"Raph\" Koster is an American entrepreneur, game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design. Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of Ultima Online and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies. From 2006 until 2013 he worked as the founder and president of Metaplace producing a Facebook game platform."
tagline: "American video game designer and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Raph_Koster_at_GDC_2017_(33298678235)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1971-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.364113333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.raphkoster.com"
sources:
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    title: "Raph Koster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster"
    title: "Raph Koster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster"
    title: "Raph Koster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster"
    title: "Raph Koster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster"
    title: "Raph Koster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster"
    title: "Raph Koster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9E%98%ED%94%84_%EC%BD%94%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0"
    title: "래프 코스터"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718514"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump