Posts Tagged ‘Richard Garfield’

Metagames as Viral Loops

In Articles on 4 March 2008 tagged emergence, game design, games, gaming, GD, Magic: The Gathering, metagames, play, Richard Garfield, second order design, viral loops with 6 comments

‘Metagames’—Richard Garfield’s presentation for the 2000 Game Developers Conference—is in today’s links, but I think it deserves a bit more attention than that. Here are some quotes from the document that stood out for me.1 What a metagame is: “My definition of metagame is broad. It is how a game interfaces with life.” In other [...]