A metagame, broadly defined as "a game beyond the game", typically refers to either of two concepts: a game which revolves around a core game; or the strategies...
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of metagaming is often frowned upon in many role-playing game communities because it impairs game balance and equality of opportunity. Metagaming can...
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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: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames is a work that has substantially influenced game theory...
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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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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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players of all time, and his unique strategies often strongly influence the metagame. His YouTube channel, WolfeyVGC, posts videos about competitive Pokémon...
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Orcs Must Die! Unchained (section Metagame)
drop loot that is used for crafting of new traps and other items in the metagame. Successfully surviving all the ways gains additional rewards, including...
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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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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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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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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 theory (section Metagames)
the target or subject game. Metagames seek to maximize the utility value of the rule set developed. The theory of metagames is related to mechanism design...
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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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described as one of the most influential characters in Genshin Impact's metagame, particularly in her Ousia form; Ku described Furina as "meta-defining"...
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investment) doing things that are external to gameplay but part of the metagame. Many players report that the emotions they feel while playing an MMORPG...
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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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an example of the game mechanic permadeath. It has been also called a metagame and a "response" to Super Mario Bros. or an "affectionate parody of the...
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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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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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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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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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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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Legacy. Associated with their short length, many rogue-lites feature a metagame, whereby achieving certain goals will unlock persistent features such as...
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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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deck; additionally, he commented that the preconstructed decks add a new metagame to the format. Heisler highlighted "now there are cards created just for...
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of the law Loophole Machiavellianism Malingering Malicious compliance Metagame Moving the goalposts OODA loop One-upmanship Pension spiking Public service...
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"King's Core", wins the match. Each themed battleground has a different metagame and secondary objectives to secure, whose completion gives your team massive...
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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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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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