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

20. On April 1, 2011, Valve’s Potato Fool’s Day alternate reality game began with codes showing up in thirteen indie games that were collected in the “Potato Sack Bundle” and offered to Steam users at a 75 percent discount. Including titles like Super Meat Boy, Bit. Trip Beat, Audiosurf, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the Potato Sack bundle incentivized purchasing and playing the games to accelerate the release of the much-anticipated Portal 2 (2011). By building a metaverse between multiple titles, Valve not only flattens a series of otherwise separate indie games into a single, monolithic genre, but also flattens alternate reality games to the pages of their online storefront, Steam.

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