Metagames in review

[A couple of these are amazing, particularly http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/games/dont-shoot-the-puppy/ and http://www.closerangegame.com/ . -e]

Metagames in review: "Andy Baio reviews the state of affairs in games about games. The metagaming concept begins with hardly-playable jokes like Desert Bus, finds creative fluency in extending game mechanics and tropes to the point of absurdity, and ends with that annoying version of Tetris which always gives you the most contextually inconvenient brick.



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