Arising alongside video game development in the 1980s, the term gameplay was used solely within the context of video games, though now its popularity has begun to see use in the description of other, more traditional, game … See more

Playability is the ease by which the game can be played or the quantity or duration that a game can be played and is a common measure of the quality of gameplay. … See more

• Desurvire, H., Caplan, M., & Toth, J. A. (2004). Using heuristics to evaluate the playability of games. CHI '04 extended abstracts on … See more

There are three components to gameplay: "Manipulation rules", defining what the player can do in the game, "Goal Rules", defining the goal of … See more

The term gameplay can be quite ambiguous to define; thus, it has been differently defined by different authors.
For instance:
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• Game development and Game design
• Game mechanics
• Interaction design
• Play (activity) See more