This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2008, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in September 2008, under the auspices of IFIP.

How I Learned to Love the Bomb: Defcon and the Ethics of Computer Games.- How I Learned to Love the Bomb: Defcon and the Ethics of Computer Games.- When Items Become Victims: Brand Memory in Violent and Nonviolent Games.- Immersion, the Greatest Hook.- Newsgames: Theory and Design.- Agents That Relate: Improving the Social Believability of Non-Player Characters in Role-Playing Games.- A Surround Display Warp-Mesh Utility to Enhance Player Engagement.- Development and Evaluation of a Centaur Robot.- Analysis of Japanese Folktales for the Purpose of Story Generation.- Strategic Path Planning on the Basis of Risk vs. Time.- Fear Inducer: A Mixed Reality Audio Experience.- Game Bot Detection Based on Avatar Trajectory.- Achievement of Carrying Objects by Small-Sized Humanoid Robot.- Interactive Multimedia Contents in the IllusionHole.- Creating an Emotionally Adaptive Game.- Robust Interactive Storytelling Framework for Automatic TV Content/Story Production.- Designing Toys That Come Alive: Curious Robots for Creative Play.- Musical B-boying: A Wearable Musical Instrument by Dancing.- Hybrid Visual Tracking for Augmented Books.- Towards Emotional Characters in Computer Games.- Sense Cup: A Design of a New Interactive Holistic Sense Convergence Device for Digital Storytelling.- Frame Selection for Automatic Comic Generation from Game Log.- Conscientious Objector: Pacifism, Politics and Abusing the Player in Doom 3.- Experiences Employing Novice Wizard Operators in a Gallery Setting.- Fast Rendering of Large Crowds Using GPU.- Physiological Player Sensing: New Interaction Devices for Video Games.- Hitch Haiku: An Interactive Supporting System for Composing Haiku Poem.- Posters.- Dome Displays for Educational Games and Activities in the Museum and on the Road.- Game-Based Simulation for the Evaluation of Threat Detection in a Seaport Environment.- BCI for Games: A 'State of the Art' Survey.- In-Depth Observation of Video Gamers.- BioMedia for Entertainment.