gameplay

See also: game-play

English

Alternative forms

• game play, game-play

Etymology

From game +‎ play.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪmˌpleɪ/

Noun

gameplay (usually uncountable, plural gameplays)

1. The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a video game or a board game.

Derived terms

• twitch gameplay

 

Related terms

• gameplayer
• gamer
• gamesman
• gamesmanship
• game theory
• gamification
• play games

 

Translations

player's gaming experience

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 玩法 (zh) (wánfǎ), (neologism) 遊戲性／游戏性 (yóuxìxìng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: spelervaring f, gameplay m
• Finnish: pelattavuus
• French: jouabilité (fr) f, gameplay (fr) m
• Galician: xogabilidade f
• German: Spielablauf (de) m
• Italian: giocabilità f
• Japanese: ゲームプレイ, ゲームメカニクス
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: تاتاماءين, tatamain
• Polish: gra (pl) f, rozgrywka (pl) f
• Portuguese: experiência de jogo f, jogabilidade (pt) f
• Russian: геймпле́й (ru) m (gejmpléj)
• Spanish: jugabilidad f
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ґеймпле́й m (gejmpléj), геймпле́й m (hejmpléj), ігрови́й проце́с m (ihrovýj procés), ігролад m (ihrolad)

See also

• mechanics
• rules

Anagrams

• playgame

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gameplay.

Noun

gameplay m (plural gameplays)

1. gameplay

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.