Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

Stephanie Boluk,Patrick LeMieux

Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Published
1 August 2017
Pages
400
ISBN
9780816687169

Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

Stephanie Boluk,Patrick LeMieux

The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as games about games, metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renais

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