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metagame

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Meaning

  1. noun A game about games.
    Nomic is a metagame in which players can modify the rules as part of gameplay.
  2. noun The exploitation of the rules etc. of some other game, at a higher level than simply playing the game normally; a game outside or peripheral to the actual gameplay.
  3. noun The conventions of a gaming community; the characters, weapons, techniques, etc, which are currently considered most viable in multiplayer gameplay, and the best practices for using them.
  4. verb Of a roleplayer, to make use of knowledge while roleplaying that they learned out of character, which their character does not know; often considered a form of cheating.

Similar words

meta game gameplaying subgame pseudogame gameplay hypergame play open game gamecraft

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