About this series:

This series examines design considerations from live action role playing games, and considers what techniques might be transferable to online prose games from their more physical cousins.

Heather Logas has spent many happy years pouring her soul into online, table top, and live action role playing games. She has recently recieved her Master's Degree with a focus on game design and theory. This has instilled in her the belief that she now has the right to pontificate at will and make up words whimifically.

Josh Powell has worked in the game industry for 5 years at video game publisher Electronic Arts. He has a passion for online games and social networking sites and whimifically enjoys board games.

Pleasures of the Flesh Column ...

• Boldly Going ... - #14: Josh and Heather speculate wildly on Perpetual's future Star Trek MMORPG
• Nobody Wants to Be a Space Whore - #13: Thinking about players when creating characters.
• NPCs as a Valuable Resource - #12: Using people-powered NPCs in your MMORPG.
• Populating Ghostville Part 3: The Long Haul - #11: Setting standards and monitoring a game's health once it goes live.
• Populating Ghostville Part 2: Hooking the Newbies - #10: How do you keep players once you attract them?
• Populating Ghostville: Getting and Keeping Players, Part 1 - #9: Three ways to help market your online game, with lessons from the LARP world.
• Role Playing for the Masses - #8: How do we introduce true roleplaying into MMORPGs?
• Character Advancement - #7: An alternative to the XP treadmill in MMORPGs.
• IC, OOC - #6: How OOC areas may be necessary to support roleplaying.
• The Taoist Storyteller - #5: The Storyteller does not move the game; the game moves the Storyteller.
• Developing Characters in One-Shot Games, Part 2: Density and Details - #4: An example of character development for a one-shot game.
• Developing Characters in One-Shot Games, Part 1: Introduction and Numbers - #3: Providing characters for one-shot games: an overview.
• The Joy of One-Shots - #2: Comparing one-off games to ongoing narratives.
• An Introduction - #1: An introduction to a new column on LARPing and online games.

Top 5 Pleasures of the Flesh Articles ...

• Nobody Wants to Be a Space Whore - #13: Thinking about players when creating characters.
• Boldly Going ... - #14: Josh and Heather speculate wildly on Perpetual's future Star Trek MMORPG
• NPCs as a Valuable Resource - #12: Using people-powered NPCs in your MMORPG.
• Populating Ghostville Part 2: Hooking the Newbies - #10: How do you keep players once you attract them?
• Populating Ghostville: Getting and Keeping Players, Part 1 - #9: Three ways to help market your online game, with lessons from the LARP world.