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Metagaming: Contents

Metagaming

Contents

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

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