“Designing A Feel for the Game is an important intervention in the world of game design. It offers a way to engage affective and emotional labor in a way that propels gaming forward. Wilcox does an excellent job showing how exploring feeling in games can help make design better, play more engaging, and mechanics more ethically sound and responsive to gamers.”--Kishonna L Gray, Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan, USA; author of Intersectional Tech

On July 15, 1966, Navy corpsman Mark V. Dennis vanished from the face of the earth. He was a passenger on a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, code name "Rose-6" when it was shot down near Quang Tri Provence. When the fire and smoke cleared, only fourteen bodies of the fifteen Marines killed that day were recovered. Mark Dennis was known to have been on that helicopter but there was no trace of him. Over the years, three bodies have been identified as Mark's. There was a body examined at Phu Bi ...

Winston and his buddies break into homes when no one is there. They do it for the rush and never take anything of value.Except for this one time.Winston agrees to break into old man Kelley's home while he and his daughter are at the theatre. However, this B&E will be different. The rumor is Kelley is a millionaire with thousands of dollars in cash laying around the house. Winston agrees to break in and steal $300, assured the old man will never miss it.But there is ...

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon un...

Anthony C. Mottola, "A.C." to his friends, is found murdered in the rubble of his burned-out music store. Rookie Limestone Sheriff Deputy Hal Blaine is assigned the case. He is aided in the search for answers by the county's medical examiner, Judee Sill.The case quickly cools with no motive or suspects. Then Judee meets Interpol Inspector Dutronc at an international forensic conference in San Antonio. There, the case takes a sharp turn as Dutronc can tie A.C.'s murder to a series o...

Twenty-eight year old Josh Wilcox is king; at least in his own mind. The youngest son of the area’s richest, most powerful man, his father’s social and economic status has given Josh everything he’s ever wanted. But Josh has a dark side to him, a very dark side. A lot of people have grown tired of Josh’s arrogance and abuse of his social status, but no one has done anything about it...until now. When someone finally takes matters into their own hands and murders him, very few people are up...

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film...