• A metagame is a game about a game, or an approach to playing a game. A metagame can serve a broad range of purposes, tied to the way a game relates to...
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  • Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames is a work that has substantially influenced game theory...
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  • Metagame analysis involves framing a problem situation as a strategic game in which participants try to realise their objectives by means of the options...
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  • Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard...
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  • this type of metagame and choose which rules apply during the game itself, potentially changing the level of difficulty. Such metagames include campaign...
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  • the success of the series, Samox announced a spin-off documentary called Metagame, set to expand on the stories of Swedish smasher, Adam "Armada" Lindgren...
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    of Law, but left to start a game design career.: 102  While working at Metagaming Concepts, Jackson developed Monsters! Monsters! (ca. 1976) based on a...
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  • The theory of metagames is related to mechanism design theory. The term metagame analysis is also used to refer to a practical approach developed by Nigel...
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  • meta A common slang term for metagame or dominant strategy. Acronym for Most Efficient Tactic Available. . . metagame 1.  In games that encourage repeated...
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  • previously non-viable or less viable Pokémon a purpose in the upper-tier metagame, such as Charizard and Mawile, although this mechanic, along with Z-moves...
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    one fighting game does not necessarily have to be strong in another. The metagame may shift over time as dominant strategies get overturned using less popular...
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  • the same ending. This has led some to identify BioShock Infinite as a metagame and meta-commentary on the whole process of players making different choices...
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    were influenced by board games, such as Stellar Conquest published by Metagaming Concepts in 1974, and text-based computer games from the 1970s. Cosmic...
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  • tactics Topics Actions per minute Build order Fog of war Macromanagement Metagaming Micromanagement Random map Rush Technology tree Tank Turtling Lists List...
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  • Bomb album), 2016 Meta (Roman circus), a pole marking racetrack turns Metagame (clipped to meta), an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules The Meta...
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  • tactics Topics Actions per minute Build order Fog of war Macromanagement Metagaming Micromanagement Random map Rush Technology tree Tank Turtling Lists List...
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  • These include:[citation needed] stakeholder based approaches including metagame analysis and drama theory morphological analysis and various forms of influence...
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  • possible interactions with the cards they expect to play against (this "metagame" can vary in different locations or time periods). The choice of cards...
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  • Dragons". The Space Gamer (2). Metagaming: 9. Pudewa, Andy (1975). "Reviews of Dungeons & Dragons". The Space Gamer (2). Metagaming: 9. RPG.net reviews: Vol...
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    use a runic font for in-game signs and printed maps and booklets, and Metagaming's The Fantasy Trip used rune-based cipher for clues and jokes throughout...
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  • Thompson wrote a report on Metagaming and stated "Metagaming's staff won't miss the effort. After the change in ownership, Metagaming feels comfortable with...
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  • 1990 neo-noir film Hot Spot (board game), a 1979 board game published by Metagaming Concepts "Hot Spot" (Burn Notice), a television episode Hot Spot (musical)...
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    unresolvable disputes. Constitutional design has been treated as a kind of metagame in which play consists of finding the best design and provisions for a...
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  • no objective border when a slightly better strategy becomes dominant. Metagame describes a game around the actual game, including discussions, like in...
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  • The MicroGame line by Metagaming Concepts consisted of tabletop microgames published from 1977 to 1982. In 1977, Metagaming Concepts designer Howard Thompson...
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    Retrieved October 13, 2021. Donaldson, Scott (July 1, 2017). "Mechanics and Metagame: Exploring Binary Expertise in League of Legends". Games and Culture. 12...
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    Jackson and published by Metagaming Concepts in 1977 as the first microgame in its MicroGame line. When Steve Jackson left Metagaming to form his own company...
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  • game to be released in November 2018 aims to rework much of the game's metagame interfaces, providing some automation and helpful advice through newly...
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  • Gift-exchange game Hobbesian trap Innocent prisoner's dilemma Liar Game Metagame Optional prisoner's dilemma Prisoner's dilemma and cooperation Public goods...
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    playing innocents faster, being villagers more often than mafiosi. The Metagame aspect: Dimma Davidoff has said past connections will always lose to future...
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