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Metagaming :

(Number (ISBN

1452954151

(Number (ISBN

9781452954158

Erroneous ISBN

0816687153

Erroneous ISBN

0816687161

Erroneous ISBN

9780816687152

Erroneous ISBN

9780816687169

Title Proper

Metagaming :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

playing, competing, spectating, cheating, trading, making, and breaking videogames /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Minneapolis :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Minnesota Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2017]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (379 pages)

Series Title

Electronic mediations ;

Volume Designation

53

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Includes gameography.

Text of Note

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedicaton; Contents; Introduction. Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play; 1 About, Within, Around, Without: A Survey of Six Metagames; Metagame 1: Triforce; 2 Stretched Skulls: Anamorphic Games and the Memento Mortem Mortis; Metagame 2: Memento Mortem Mortis; 3 Blind Spots: The Phantom Pain, The Helen Keller Simulator, and Disability in Games; Metagame 3: It Is Pitch Black; 4 Hundred Thousand Billion Fingers: Serial Histories of Super Mario Bros; Metagame 4: 99 Exercises in Style.

Text of Note

5 The Turn of the Tide: International E- Sports and the Undercurrency in Dota 2; Metagame 5: Tide Hunter; 6 Breaking the Metagame: Feminist Spoilsports and Magic Circle Jerks; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Gameography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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Text of Note

"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 these alternative histories of play by exploring the strange experiences and unexpected effects that emerge in, on, around, and through videogames. Players puzzle through the problems of perspectival rendering in Portal, perform clandestine acts of electronic espionage in EVE Online, compete and commentate in Korean StarCraft, and speedrun The Legend of Zelda in record times (with or without the use of vision). Companies like Valve attempt to capture the metagame through international e-sports and online marketplaces while the corporate history of Super Mario Bros. is undermined by the endless levels of Infinite Mario, the frustrating pranks of Asshole Mario, and even Super Mario Clouds, a ROM hack exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of the only books to include original software alongside each chapter, Metagaming transforms videogames from packaged products into instruments, equipment, tools, and toys for intervening in the sensory and political economies of everyday life. And although videogames conflate the creativity, criticality, and craft of play with the act of consumption, we don't simply play videogames--we make metagames"--

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctt1n2zv40

Title

Metagaming.

International Standard Book Number

9780816687152

Video games-- Design.

Video games industry-- Social aspects.

Video games-- Social aspects.

COMPUTERS-- Social Aspects-- General.

GAMES-- Video & Electronic.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

Video games-- Design.

Video games-- Social aspects.

COM079000

GAM-- 001000

GAM013000

SOC022000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Boluk, Stephanie,1979-

LeMieux, Patrick,1984-

Date of Transaction

20200822135447.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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