META
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.
META