What is Metagame?
Brought to you by the Quant Trading Bootcamp team, 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
Uri Bram
Person Do Thing
Patrick McKenzie
Starfighter
Ricki Heicklen
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