Metagames: Games about Games
Agata Waszkiewicz talks about her new book.
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Metagames: Games about Games scrutinizes how how metafictional experimentation can be used to both challenge and push the boundaries of what a game is and what a player’s role is in play, and to raise more profound topics such as those describing experiences of people of oppressed identities. The talk will give a short overview of the book, following the division of its chapter that each focuses on a different meta device: breaking the fourth wall, hypermediation, unreliable narrator, abusive game design, fragmentation, and parody.
The first hour is dedicated to the talk and Q&A, and we’ll spend the last 30 minutes on discussing items for the agenda for the remaining meetings for spring 2025.
Agata Waszkiewicz
Dr. Agata Waszkiewicz is a scholar at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. They are a video game researcher interested in metafictional and experimental video games. Furthermore, they research queer representation in video games and the ways in which games allow for the exploration of one’s identity.
