How to pronounce “metagame”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable) A game about games.
• (countable, uncountable) The exploitation of the rules etc. of some other game, at a higher level than simply playing the game normally; a game outside or peripheral to the actual gameplay.
• (countable, uncountable, video games) The conventions of a gaming community; the characters, weapons, techniques, etc, which are currently considered most viable in multiplayer gameplay, and the best practices for using them.
• [Verb]
• (roleplaying games) Of a roleplayer, to make use of knowledge while roleplaying that they learned out of character, which their character does not know; often considered a form of cheating.

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