What is Metagame?
Metagame is a weekend conference devoted to games. We mean games in the broadest sense of the word: any experience that is designed to be played, as opposed to passively consumed. This includes board games, card games, videogames, tabletop games, LARPs, puzzles, rock climbing routes, and more. If building it involves asking the question "what would the consumer of this experience choose to do next?", it's a game.
My guess is the event will lean extremely toward the "communal, chaotic, unconferenc-y" end of the professionalism spectrum, with a lot of the [sessions? experiences? internal plot devices?] designed by attendees.
This is not a
Run something
We will provide the venue, the resources, and the very eager audience, and you can run whatever experimental game concept you've been toying with.
Need a weirdly shaped space to build a gradient descent themed escape room? Want to run a game design tournament where you provide the board and pieces and contestants come up with the rules? Looking for hundreds of willing subjects for a social deception experiment that isn't quite ready for prime time?
Metagame is the conference for you.
Speakers
Amy Schneider
Jeopardy
Patrick McKenzie
Starfighter
Rita Orlov
PostCurious
Dan Feyer
ACPT 9-Time Winner
Tyler Hinman
ACPT Youngest Winner
Nolen Royalty
eieio games
Matthew Stein
imakepuzzles.com
Myles Nye
Wise Guys Events
Uri Bram
Person Do Thing
Ricki Heicklen
METAGAME
Gamel James
Unified Pieces
Justin Kuiper
Idol Manager
Jamie Wahls
Heist
Alice Maynwaring
Fielding's Hollow
David Zvi Kalman
Dreidel20
Jacob "Conflux" Cohen
Puzzles for Progress
David Chee
SirSaltySponsors
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NPC
$150
Player
Early bird price through July 17th, 2025
$500
Supporter
We will name a game after you
$2048