System and method for facilitating communication between affiliated players in an online game via communication mediums external to the online game

摘要

Affiliated players in an online game often coordinate activity and communication in the online game. Affiliated players may want to coordinate activities and/or communicate with each even when one or more affiliated players may not be logged into the online game. Further, persons of higher status in an affiliation may want to control the extent to which other players in the affiliation are sent messages external to the game. As such, one aspect of the disclosure relates to facilitating communication to a group of related players of an online game outside of communication mediums available via the game, where the ability to communicate and the type of communication may depend upon permissions associated with a player in a group of affiliated players.

主权项

1. A system configured to facilitate communication to affiliated players of an online game via communication mediums external to the online game, the system comprising:
one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: execute an instance of a virtual space in which an online game takes place, and to implement the instance of the virtual space to transmit game state information determined from the instance of the virtual space over a network to a client computing platform associated with a player to facilitate presentation of views of the virtual space to the player in an interface, and to facilitate interaction of the player with the virtual space by executing actions in the instance of the virtual space in response to commands received over the network from the client computing platform associated with the player; manage one or more affiliations within the virtual space, an individual affiliation comprising a discrete group of players with a relationship having a functional significance within the virtual space, wherein the player is included in a first affiliation comprising a first discrete group of players, and wherein the player is associated with communication permissions;
receive a request including a communication from the player in the first affiliation to communicate to one or more other players in the first affiliation;determine whether to permit the communication based on the communication permissions associated with the player in the first affiliation such that the determination of whether to permit the communication depends on whether the communication permissions associated with the player permit the player to communicate to the one or more other players in the first affiliation; andresponsive to a determination that the communication permissions associated with the player permit the player to communicate to the one or more other players in the first affiliation, send the communication to the one or more other players via a communication medium external to the online game.