Steve Wilcox – författare

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 and for which a death certificate was prepared. A different body was placed in Mark''s casket and it was positively identified as Mark Dennis through forensic radiology. A third body was found under the Sea Knight''s fuselage and also identified as Mark Dennis.For more than three decades, the family has sought to reclassify Mark from KIA to MIA and to find answers to what really happened. They even listed the help of the popular Unsolved Mysteries television program. This is Mark''s story from when he enlisted in the Navy in 1964 to the discovery of his final resting place in 2014. It is told by those of us who knew him, and the hundreds of pages of documents amassed by his brother Jerry.

“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 TechThis book offers a practical method for making meaningful and memorable games by design. Drawing on over a decade of teaching critical game design, Steve Wilcox translates the social and cognitive science of meaning-making into applied lessons and concepts for designing a feel for your game. Across eight chapters and a range of topics—including embodied cognition, anthropology, social psychology, affective science, persuasive design, and applied ethics—readers will learn that the mechanisms we already rely on to make sense of and give meaning to the world around us are the very tools we need to make games that feel meaningful and memorable to play.Designing a Feel for the Game features practical lessons illustrated with various examples from digital, analog, and live action games. Each chapter includes numerous applied activities developed and refined over a decade of teaching, including individual and group exercises as well as a major design challenge.

“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 TechThis book offers a practical method for making meaningful and memorable games by design. Drawing on over a decade of teaching critical game design, Steve Wilcox translates the social and cognitive science of meaning-making into applied lessons and concepts for designing a feel for your game. Across eight chapters and a range of topics—including embodied cognition, anthropology, social psychology, affective science, persuasive design, and applied ethics—readers will learn that the mechanisms we already rely on to make sense of and give meaning to the world around us are the very tools we need to make games that feel meaningful and memorable to play.Designing a Feel for the Game features practical lessons illustrated with various examples from digital, analog, and live action games. Each chapter includes numerous applied activities developed and refined over a decade of teaching, including individual and group exercises as well as a major design challenge.