This book tells the tale of M'nodanok, an orphaned Native American boy of the Abenaki tribe who was raised by wild animals in the forest surrounding Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Then, as he grows older, he meets and falls in love with Wenunchus whom he eventually marries as they travel westward to meet with King Phillip and from there northward to the village of Odanok, Quebec, where he dies at the age of one hundred and t wenty-nine aftter a fierce battle in which their entire village was massacred by Robert Rogers and his rangers in the pre-dawn hours of 6 October, 1759.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2009, held in Paris, France, in September 2009, under the auspices of IFIP. The 14 revised long papers, 19 short papers and 23 poster papers and demos presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers cover all main domains of entertainment computing, from interactive music to games, taking a wide range of scientific domains from aesthetic to computer science.