System and method for facilitating user interaction with a virtual space through a graphical chat interface

摘要

A system and method for facilitating user interactions with a virtual space through a graphical chat interface is disclosed. One or more potential inputs to the virtual space and/or virtual space status information may be determined dynamically for a user participating in a chat session through a graphical chat interface. An activity notification may be generated for the user based one the determined potential inputs and/or the virtual space status information. The generated activity notification may comprise graphical representation for the notification and as well as representation information for one or more controls facilitating the user to provide inputs requested by the activity notification through the graphical chat interface. User acceptance to the activity notification via the graphical chat interface may be received. One or more activity commands may be generated based on the received user acceptance and executed in the virtual space.

主权项

1. A system configured to facilitate user interactions with a virtual space through a graphical chat interface, the system comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising: a space module configured to execute an instance of the virtual space, to implement the instance of the virtual space by receiving and executing commands to facilitate user interactions with the virtual space, and to determine view information for presentation of the virtual space on client computing platforms through space interfaces to facilitate user actions in the virtual space; a chat module configured to implement an instance of a chat session to facilitate synchronous textual communications between users within the virtual space, the chat module being configured to transmit the textual communications that make up the chat session to the computing platforms for presentation through graphical chat interfaces, the graphical chat interfaces being presented on the client computing platforms such that they replace the space interfaces to facilitate the presentation of the textual communications; a user-activity module configured to identify potential inputs to the space module for users participating in the chat session through the graphical chat interfaces; an activity-notification module configured to generate activity notifications such that responsive to identification of a first potential input to the space module for a first user by the user-activity module and also responsive to the first user participating in the chat session through the graphical chat interface, the activity-notification module generates a first activity notification for the first user for presentation to the first user through a graphical chat interface implemented on a client computing platform associated with the first user; a response-request module configured to receive user acceptances to activity notifications submitted by users through the graphical chat interfaces and to generate commands executable by the space module, wherein responsive to receiving an acceptance to the first activity notification from the first user, the response-request module generates a first activity command executable by the space module; and, wherein the space module is further configured such that responsive to the generation of the first activity command by the response-request module, the space module executes the first activity command.