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

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 rul...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Press 2017
Series:Electronic Mediations
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