Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames by Patrick Lemieux, Stephanie Boluk

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

Patrick Lemieux, Stephanie Boluk

392 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction art technology video games informative slow-paced

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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 st...

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