TIME LIMITED, APPLICATION SPANNING AND POST-APPLICATION RELEASE ACHIEVEMENTS

摘要

A cloud-based achievement and reward recognition portal exposes services that enable developers of games and other applications to author rules that govern the logging of player statistics that reflect a player's interactions and behaviors during gameplay. The logged player statistics are stored in a data repository and monitored by a service. The portal enables achievements to be authored that specify thresholds or other criteria for earning an achievement and obtaining an associated reward. When the monitoring of the player statistics indicates that a threshold has been crossed, a service will award the achievement to the player. A reward associated with the earned achievement can be provided to the player or unlocked within the game context.

主权项

1. A method for enabling achievements to be authored through a portal, comprising the steps of:
configuring the portal for authoring statistics that describe a user's interactions or behaviors with an application during execution on a device, the statistics being logged subsequent to the authoring by a statistics logging client on the device as the application executes on the device; and configuring the portal for creating an achievement that is awardable to the user, the creating comprising specifying a threshold by which the user earns the achievement when exceeded by the logged statistics;