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Meta

8 December 20054

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META is a game about an adventure game within an editor - in other words, a metagame. It's a game that you can edit while playing it, and that you must change to complete.

A highly original game, it plays in a game editor called BHT which is suspiciously like AGS (adventure game studio); within this editor, you can play a game called Awesmoe Quest, which is rather broken and buggy. To actually complete this sub-game, you have to swap back and forth to the BHT editor, in a surreal exercise of twisted logic and lateral thinking. Assisting you in this task is Cuppit, a cup-shaped office assistant who can give old Clippy a run for his money in terms of annoyance.

This is a game you have to see to believe (or disbelieve). Anyone involved in game design or level design will probably find it very funny; anyone not so involved might simply be confused. At least one reviewer completely missed the point of the game, and called Awesmoe Quest a bad game while not seeing that this was intentional. Surreality is not for everyone.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Side view

Languages (1)

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English

Also known as

Crystal Shard Adventure: MetaSteam store page title

Meta: The best thing since sliced milkSteam cover title

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Facts

Developer

Crystal Shard

Released

8 December 2005

Platforms

PCLinuxWindows

Tags

3rd-person (Other)Mental trainingPuzzle elements