Scoreboards for electronic games

摘要

Game scores are obtained and associated with tiers based at least in part on game scores. Also, social networking contacts who are also players of the game are identified. A scoreboard is generated that shows the tiers, rankings of a respective one of the players, and the social networking contacts who were identified.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, the program comprising program instructions, that when executed, cause the computing device to at least:
obtain a plurality of game scores for a plurality of players of an electronic game; determine that the plurality of game scores are within a predetermined range that indicates that the plurality of game scores are not fraudulent; determine a plurality of rankings for the plurality of players; associate individual ones of the plurality of players with respective ones of a plurality of tiers based at least in part on the plurality of rankings, wherein individual ones of the plurality of tiers are associated with respective ones of a plurality of percentile ranges of the plurality of rankings; identify at least one of the plurality of players as having a social networking affiliation with another player of the plurality of players, the social networking affiliation comprising at least one of:
being a social networking contact for the another player through a social networking platform;sharing a common social networking contact for the another player through the social networking platform;having a same domain component of an electronic mail address as the another player;being an electronic mail contact for the another player; orbeing in a same geographical area as the another player; and generate a scoreboard for the electronic game, the scoreboard representing at least the plurality of tiers and at least one of the plurality of game scores for individual ones of the plurality of tiers; encode at least a portion of the scoreboard for display on a client device with a representation of at least:
a selected subset of the plurality of tiers;at least one of the plurality of game scores for individual ones of the plurality of tiers;a first ranking for the another player; anda second ranking for the at least one of the plurality of players that have the social networking affiliation with the another player, wherein the second ranking is presented relative to the selected subset of the plurality of tiers.