🎮 A group session 🎮 For many players

multiplayer

1 3.5

For playing a game with several people at the same time

adjective
/ˈmʌltiˌpleɪər/

: multijugador

My favorite type of video game is multiplayer because I enjoy playing with others online.
massively multiplayer
multiplayer online

So this is a little overpowered for most like local multiplayer PC gaming experiences, isn't it?

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Examples

So Micro Mayhem is a local multiplayer game I've been developing over the last two years with a true friend of mine under the team name Octo.

Black Beard Projects
We were going to make this game multiplayer so people could play with each other and against each other for the first time.
Success is a multiplayer game, right?
But if you want to play multiplayer, oh boy, here's the story.
And in a world where almost everything has a multiplayer component fighting for your attention, it just doesn't fare well.

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Outside of the story mode, New Super Mario Bros. U also has a handful of single-player and multiplayer challenges.

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In this game, you can team up with friends in a multiplayer mode to complete challenges together.
We set up a multiplayer tournament at the arcade, and many players joined to compete against each other.

Antonyms

single

∞ 1.0

For one person or thing, not shared with others

How Many Players

multiplayer

1 3.5

co-op

Jargon

3.7

one-man

40 3.9

Surface Forms

multiplayer positive

Morphology

multiplayer = player (transparent) = multi + play + er

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'multi-' meaning 'many' and 'player', so the word is easy to interpret compositionally.

Etymology

Multiplayer is made of the parts multi- meaning 'many', like in multiple, and player meaning 'someone who plays'. So, a multiplayer game lets 'many' people play together at the same time.