Editing Gameplay (section)

==Playability==
Playability is a measure of the quality of gameplay. Playability represents the ease, quantity, or duration that a game can be played.<ref>[http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/term_657.txl Usability First: Usability Glossary: playability<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091018082237/http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/term_657.txl |date=2009-10-18 }}</ref> Playability evaluative methods target games to improve design, while player experience evaluative methods target players to improve gaming.<ref name="nackeDiGRA"/> 

Different scholars analyze playability according to different sets of criteria. For example, in ''Playability: analyzing user experience in video games'', the researchers define playability as a set of properties that describe player experience using a specific game system: satisfaction, learning, efficiency, immersion, motivation, emotion, and socialization.<ref name=Gonzalez2012>{{cite journal|last=González Sánchez|first=J. L.|author2=Gutiérrez Vela, F.L. | author3=Montero Simarro, F. | author4=Padilla-Zea, N.|title=Playability: analysing user experience in video games|journal=Behaviour & Information Technology|date=31 Aug 2012|volume=31|issue=10|pages=1033–1054|doi=10.1080/0144929X.2012.710648|s2cid=7073571}}</ref> However, in ''A video game's elements ontology'', the researchers define the facets of playability as: intrinsic, mechanical, interactive, artistic, personal, and social.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=González Sánchez |first1=J. L. |last2=Gutiérrez Vela |first2=F. L. |website=Stanford Ontology Library|url=http://lsi.ugr.es/joseluisgs/videojuegos.owl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603184631/http://lsi.ugr.es/joseluisgs/videojuegos.owl|archive-date=2010-06-03|date=2010-06-03|title=A video game's elements ontology|publisher=University of Granada |location=Spain}}</ref>

These concepts of "playability" are not to be confused with the ability to control (or play) characters in multi-character games such as [[role playing game]]s or [[fighting game]]s, or factions in [[real-time strategy]] games.