{"product_id":"metagaming-9780816687169","title":"Metagaming","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Digital media scholars Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux ask what do games do? They rediscover meaning for the term metagame.\"—\u003ci\u003eRhizomes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Interesting analysis of specific examples of the ways in which play has evolved under different circumstances.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE connect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play’s diversity in, on, around, between, through, and without video games. Their wildly eclectic book careens from competitive e-sports and video game spectatorship to hacking, modding, speedrunning, experimenting, and critiquing video games—all valid ways of engaging with the medium that tend to fall outside analyses which see these activities as merely the metagame.\"—\u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play\u003cbr\u003e1. About, Within, Around, Without: A Survey of Six Metagames\u003cbr\u003eMetagame 2: \u003ci\u003eTriforce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Stretched Skulls: Anamorphic Games and the \u003ci\u003eMemento Mortem Mortis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMetagame 3: \u003ci\u003eMemento Mortem Mortis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Blind Spots: \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Helen Keller Simulator\u003c\/i\u003e, and Blindrunning\u003cbr\u003eMetagame 4: \u003ci\u003eIt Is Pitch Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Hundred Thousand Billion Fingers: A Serial History of \u003ci\u003eSuper Mario Bros.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMetagame 5: \u003ci\u003e99 Exercises in Style\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Turn of the Tide: E-Sports, Moneyball, and the Undercurrency in \u003ci\u003eDota 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMetagame 6: \u003ci\u003eTide Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Breaking the Metagame: Feminist Spoilsports and Magic Circle Jerks\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eGameography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405972185431,"sku":"9780816687169","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816687169.jpg?v=1730494097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/metagaming-9780816687169","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}