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Metagaming

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

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Stephanie Boluk
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Patrick LeMieux

Metagaming uncovers alternative histories of play by exploring the strange experiences and unexpected effects that emerge in, on, around, and through videogames. One of the only books to include original software alongside each chapter, Metagaming transforms videogames from packaged products into instruments, equipment, tools, and toys for intervening in the sensory and political economies of everyday life.

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    December 21, 2020
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    December 20, 2020
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    December 20, 2020
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    December 20, 2020
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    December 19, 2020
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    December 19, 2020

Resources

Resource Collections

  • 99 Exercises in Style

    Resource Collection
  • Triforce

    Resource Collection
7 Total Collections

Single Resources

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    It Is Pitch Black Screenshot 1

  • File

    Memento Mortem Mortis for Windows

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    99 Exercises in Play for Windows

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    Memento Mortem Mortis for Mac

  • Video

    echochrome™ Official Trailer

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    Tide Hunter Screenshot 2

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    Triforce Screenshot 1

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    Momento Mortem Mortis Screenshot 3

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    99 Exercises in Play Screenshot 2

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    Tide Hunter Screenshot 1

77 Total Resources

Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play
  • 1. About, Within, Around, Without: A Survey of Six Metagames
    • Metagame 1: Triforce
  • 2. Stretched Skulls: Anamorphic Games and the Memento Mortem Mortis
    • Metagame 2: Memento Mortem Mortis
  • 3. Blind Spots: The Phantom Pain, The Helen Keller Simulator, and Disability in Games
    • Metagame 3: It Is Pitch Black
  • 4. Hundred Thousand Billion Fingers: Serial Histories of Super Mario Bros.
    • Metagame 4: 99 Exercises in Style
  • 5. The Turn of the Tide: International E-Sports and the Undercurrency in Dota 2
    • Metagame 5: Tide Hunter
  • 6. Breaking the Metagame: Feminist Spoilsports and Magic Circle Jerks
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Gameography
  • Index

Metadata

  • edition
    1
  • isbn
    978-1-4529-5835-4
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • rights
    Copyright 2017 by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux
  • rights holder
    Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux
  • series number
    53
  • series title
    Electronic Mediations
  • version
    1.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452958354
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