Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Volume 53

by Patrick Lemieux and Stephanie Boluk

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 rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, professional sports, and the War on Terror. In Metagaming , Stephanie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816687161
• ISBN13: 9780816687169
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"