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 Smash Brothers (redirect from Metagame (film))
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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Game theory (section Metagames)
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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Pokémon competitive play (section Official Metagames)
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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Game balance (section Metagame)
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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MicroGame (redirect from Metagaming microgame)
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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Ogre (board game) (category Metagaming Concepts games)
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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