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Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Stephanie Boluk
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Description for Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 400 pages, 77. BIC Classification: UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 51. .
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 Boluk and Patrick LeMieux demonstrate how games always extend beyond the screen, and how modders, mappers, streamers, spectators, analysts, and artists are changing the way we play. Metagaming uncovers ... Read more
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 Boluk and Patrick LeMieux demonstrate how games always extend beyond the screen, and how modders, mappers, streamers, spectators, analysts, and artists are changing the way we play. Metagaming uncovers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Electronic Mediations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816687169
SKU
V9780816687169
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About Stephanie Boluk
Stephanie Boluk is assistant professor in the English department and Cinema and Digital Media Program at University of California, Davis. Patrick LeMieux is an artist, game designer, and assistant professor in the Cinema and Digital Media Program at University of California, Davis.
Reviews for Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Digital media scholars Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux ask what do games do? They rediscover meaning for the term metagame. -Rhizomes Interesting analysis of specific examples of the ways in which play has evolved under different circumstances. -CHOICE connect Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play's diversity in, on, around, ... Read more