Raph Koster cares very much about improving his understanding of games, the systems that underpin them, and the space of expression that he can work with. This has gotten him into hot water over the course of 2013 Come from South African Online Casinos . To say what makes a game is by definition also to say what is not a game. "Games are a rich and complicated system," Koster says, in a succinct explanation of his perspective on the issue. "I'm trying to look at things this way to pick up my tools from my workbench and do better." At GDC Next, Koster dropped the word "game" and attempted, instead, to focus on the word "play." Across all types of games, there is play. And Koster expanded on this word — challenging how we should even think about it. Yes, it means the activities you do in a game. But using it also implies a possib…