WE CREATE
PLAYABLEIMMERSIVEONLINERICHLIVING WORLDS
We create playable worlds.
Worlds with beauty and ecosystems.
Worlds with persistence.
Worlds with freedom of choice.
Worlds where you are the focus of your own story.
We breathe a new life into these worlds.
With inhabitants that hope and think.
With consequences for actions.
We enable complex communities and societies.
No future is foreordained. These worlds wait for you.
Recent News
The Fourth Curtain podcast interviews Raph Koster
The Fourth Curtain podcast team writes, "This week's guest is a poet, writing the poetry of fun. Author of the essential 'A Theory of Fun', creator of Ultima Online and Stars Wars Galaxies, he's likely [...]
A Conversation about Sandbox MMORPGs with David Georgeson
Q. Do you remember your first moment getting emotionally connected to a sandbox MMORPG? A. It was definitely Ultima Online and for an unusual reason. I had played hundreds of games by that point in [...]
Game Design Career Fireside with Raph Koster
In this fireside chat, Game Developer senior editor Bryant Francis interviews Raph Koster, CEO of Playable Worlds, Inc. who has worked at EA, Sony, and Disney, and served as lead designer and director for titles [...]
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