metagaming
English
Etymology
meta- + gaming
Noun
metagaming (uncountable)
- The playing of metagames.
- (role-playing games) Using out-of-game knowledge to the player's advantage in a role-playing game.
- 2017, Amanda K. Allen, “Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 284:
- Other terms are specific to the role-playing experience, such as […] 'Metagaming', in which players act on information that they, as players, know, but which their characters could not know (or have not yet learned).
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