Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to nearly every member of my department at the University of Tampa for listening, reading, and consulting; to the College of Arts and Letters for financial support and the IT department for tech support; and most importantly, to my undergraduate research assistant, David Restrepo. I am grateful to Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux for reading suggestions, to Ashley Ferro-Murray for the invitation to present work at the EMPAC Center at Rensselaer University, to Nathan Dize for consultation on my translations, to the designers of Thralled for sharing their game demo and to Fulbright for a fellowship to Brazil that enriched my understanding of that game.