System and method for sharing gameplay experiences

摘要

Users are arranged to employ gameplay terminals which including computing hardware for executing one or more software products The users share gameplay experiences by
including in the one or more software products a host game software application for implementing one or more games on one or more of the terminals, andappending one or more software components to the host game software application for providing control of the host game software application on a real-time basis for recording gameplay experiences for sharing amongst the users based upon one or more of: game view, sub-game view, sensor data employed to control the game, video camera views of one or more users playing the game, game events occurring during playing the game. A software development kit is also described.

主权项

1. A system for sharing gameplay experiences between users, wherein the system includes gameplay terminals which the users employ for gameplay activities, wherein the gameplay terminals include computing hardware for executing one or more software products recorded on non-transitory machine-readable data storage media, wherein the one or more software products include a host game software application for implementing one or more games on one or more of the terminals, and one or more software components for appending to the host game software application for providing control of the host game software application on a real-time basis for recording gameplay experiences for sharing amongst the users based upon one or more of: a game view, a sub-game view, sensor data employed to control the game, video camera views of one or more users playing the game, or game events occurring during playing the game; and wherein the computing hardware of the gameplay terminal is, upon execution of the one or ore software products, configured to:
identify one or more game elements generated during playing of the game to be recorded as mutually independent data streams, wherein an actual game view is recorded as a first game video stream and a toolbar view generated during the playing of the game is recorded as a second game video stream; enable selection of individual ones of the one or more of the recorded mutually independent data streams to be watched or shared; detect a selection of individual ones of the recorded mutually independent streams on a viewing gameplay terminal; and present the selected ones of the recorded mutually independent streams as separate windows on the viewing gameplay terminal, wherein the first video stream is presented in a first window and the second video stream is presented in a second window.