What is Metagame?
Brought to you by the Arbor 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
Matthew Stein
imakepuzzles.com
Patrick McKenzie
Starfighter
Nolen Royalty
eieio games
Uri Bram
Person Do Thing
Ricki Heicklen
METAGAME
Jacob "Conflux" Cohen
Puzzles for Progress
Alice Maynwaring
Fielding's Hollow
Jamie Wahls
Heist
Gamel James
Unified Pieces
Myles Nye
Wise Guys Events
Justin Kuiper
Idol Manager
David Chee
SirSalty
David Zvi Kalman
Dreidel20Who else will be there?
Grab a ticket!
NPC
$150
Player
Early bird price through July 9th, 2025
$500
Supporter
We will name a game after you
$2048