CAPTURING ASYNCHRONOUS COMMENTARY TO PRE-RECORDED GAMEPLAY

摘要

A system and method for saving at least a portion of a game with the comments that were made by one or more spectators to the user's live gaming session. The saved portion of the gaming session can be played back at a later time. One or more play back viewer's comments can be associated to the recorded gaming session. The associated play back viewer's comments can be associated corresponding in time with a timing reference within the game. The play back viewer's comments can include the play back viewer's identification. All of the comments to the user's game play can be filtered and shared according to a friend list or other sharing protocol.

主权项

1. A method of asynchronous commenting on a gaming session, comprising:
recording the gaming session that is executed by a cloud gaming system, the recording producing a game play clip that includes a video recording of a gaming session and an audio recording of a player participating in the gaming session and a spectator observing the player participating in the gaming session, wherein the game play clip includes a portion of the recorded game session and a portion of the audio recording that corresponds to the game play clip, the game play clip includes one or more highlight events of play occurring within the gaming session; enabling sharing of the game play clip to a website to enable viewing by users of the website; and providing playback of the game play clip in response to selection of the game play clip by a playback viewing user of the website, the playback including the portion of the recorded game session and the portion of the audio recording, the portion of the audio recording having one or more comments that relate to the highlight events that occurred during the gaming session; causing the one or more comments to be output with the audio recording during the playback of the game play clip; wherein the comments are identified as provided by the player participating in the gaming session or the spectator observing the player.