Custom Reward for Viral Help in Game

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for processing operations of a computer game to be played on a computing device. One method includes an operation for detecting a petition for help from a first player to a second player to obtain a first game asset for the first player. The petition is sent to the second player notifying the second player that a game asset needed by the second player would be awarded to the second player for helping the first player. Further, the method includes operations for selecting a game asset to award the second player, the game asset being from a wish list of the second player, the wish list including game assets pre-identified by the second player. The second player is awarded with the game asset that is selected from the wish list of the second player, and as a result, both the first and second players are enabled to make progress within the game.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for processing operations of a computer game to be played on a computing device, the method comprising:
receiving a request from a first player, the request including a petition for help in a game; sending the petition to be displayed on a computing device of a second player, the petition configured to notify the second player that an unspecified game asset is to be awarded to the second player for completing a game operation to help the first player, the game operation specified by the petition; selecting, by a game manager, in response to the second player completing the game operation via the computing device, a game asset from a wish list of the second player to be the unspecified game asset, the wish list including game assets pre-identified by the second player; and awarding the game asset to the second player in the game by the game manager, wherein completing the game operation by the second player enables both the first and second players to make a progress in the game, wherein operations of the method being executed by a processor.