Remember that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - (number) works fine, but that you need to understand what number it is looking for - it is floating-point number of days. So CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-1.0 is 1 day ago, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-0.5 is 1/2 day ago. For 30 minutes, that is 1.0/48.0 (use radix so result is a floating point number) or 0.0208333333333333, so your query will work if re-written as
select * from
[Janus999DB].[dbo].[tblCustomerPlay]
where DatePlayed < CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
and DatePlayed >
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP-1.0/48.0
You could also use 1.0/24.0/2.0 if that looks more like 1/2 hour to you.