MetaSquares was originally designed by game designer Scott Kim as a two-player board game for Metacreations, with game art by Kai Krause, and it ran as an online game between 1996 and 1997 on America Online (AoL).

A fan site called MetaSquared.com was set up by Michael Barnathan shortly after AoL discontinued the game, but it seems to have been inactive since 2007.

The simpler scoring system is my addition, and is ideal when playing a quick game with pencil and paper.