gameplay

See also: game-play and Gameplay

English

Alternative forms

• game play, game-play

Etymology

From game +‎ play.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• 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

• gameplaywise
• 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
• Bulgarian: ге́ймплей m (géjmplej)
• 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
• Indonesian: alur main (literally “plot of playing”), jalan main (literally “way of playing”)
• 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 (literally “system of playing”)
• Polish: gra (pl) f, rozgrywka (pl) f, gameplay (pl) m
• Portuguese: experiência de jogo f, jogabilidade (pt) f
• Russian: геймпле́й (ru) m (gejmpléj)
• Spanish: jugabilidad f, gameplay m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ґеймпле́й m (gejmpléj), геймпле́й m (hejmpléj), ігрови́й проце́с m (ihrovýj procés), ігролад m (ihrolad)

gameplay footage

• Bulgarian: ге́ймплей m (géjmplej)
• Indonesian: gameplay, video main (literally “video of playing”)
• Polish: gra (pl) f, rozgrywka (pl) f, gameplay (pl) m
• Spanish: gameplay m, metraje del juego m (of a specific game), metraje de juegos m (of games in general)

See also

• mechanics
• rules

Anagrams

• playgame

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gameplay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡemplei/ [ˈɡẽm.plei̯]
  • Rhymes: -emplei
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeimplei/ [ˈɡẽĩm.plei̯]
  • Rhymes: -eimplei
• Syllabification: ga‧me‧play

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.