"societal games" is a valid phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe the larger games and norms that exist in society, like power dynamics and systems of oppression. For example, "The author explores the societal games that perpetuate gender disparity."
He came to see science as just another societal "game," a conventional box it was time to blow up — along with all the others.
But folklore isn't just legendary forest-dwelling hermits or nude women parading through cobbled streets on horses; it's also cultural and societal ephemera, like The Game (you just lost The Game), or that fable about the Frosties advert kid dying a gruesome death.
To be honest, I'm of an age where I don't actually give a fuck what people think or say about me, so I'm not likely to be put off by any societal pressure on women and games".
In other instances, Scalia's word games have had profound, societal implications, leading to — in at least one case — a dramatic shift in constitutional law.
All of this leaves me wanting more, specifically more context: such as what greater societal forces are shaping the types of games we play and why?
Good quality evidence on contributory environmental factors such as seeing aggression on television and in video games is relatively lacking, although societal and professional concerns are high.
The game design framework presented illustrates a clear approach for serious games dealing with topics applicable at societal scales.
While only an initial, rough approximation at the truly complex, interdependent and highly nonlinear nature of modernization, our HDD approach provides insights into the interactivity of individual agency and societal outcomes seen through the lens of evolutionary games.
Similarities notwithstanding, there remain important differences between the constraints and objectives in societal and engineered systems that require looking at game-theoretic methods from a new perspective.
