Metagaming : playing, competing, spectating, cheating, trading, making, and breaking videogames / St...
Metagaming : playing, competing, spectating, cheating, trading, making, and breaking videogames / St...
Metagaming : playing, competing, spectating, cheating, trading, making, and breaking videogames / Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux.
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Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
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G 2017/2155
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Language
English
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Physical content
379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction : Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play -- About, Within, Around, Without : A Survey of Six Metagames -- Stretched Skulls : Anamorphic Games and the Memento Mortem Mortis -- Blind Spots : The Phantom Pain, The Helen Keller Simulator, and Disability in Games -- Hundred Thousand...
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Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"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 Ren...
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Metagaming : playing, competing, spectating, cheating, trading, making, and breaking videogames / Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux.
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Electronic mediations ; 53
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359), gameography (page 361-372) and index.
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G 2017/2155
Record Identifier
74VKVaKA62DA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaKA62DA
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ISBN
0816687161 (pb)
9780816687152 (hardback)
0816687153 (hardback)
9780816687169 (pb)
DDC
794.8
MMS ID
991024100914102626
