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 … 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. Playability evaluative methods target games to improve design while player experience … See more

• Desurvire, H., Caplan, M., & Toth, J. A. (2004). Using heuristics to evaluate the playability of games. CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, Vienna, … 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.
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• Game development and Game design
• Game mechanics
• Interaction design
• Play (activity)
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