Systems and Methods for Sharing Cloud-Executed Mini-Games, Challenging Friends and Enabling Crowd Source Rating

摘要

Systems and methods for managing sharing of mini-games over a game cloud system are provided. One example method includes receiving a request to access games through a user account. A user interface with a plurality of games is presented for a user to view and play, upon successful access to the user account. A first game is played and a video is generated recording the game play. Selection of a portion of the recorded video is received from the first user and a mini-game is generated from the selected video portion. Mini-game generated includes the recorded video and an executable portion. The mini-game is posted to a website along with a challenge comment upon first user's request for sharing the mini-game. One or more game plays for the posted mini-game are received and mini-game play videos are generated. The mini-game play videos are provided to other users during sharing.

主权项

1. A method for managing execution and sharing of mini-games over a game cloud system, comprising:
receiving a request from a first user to access an account managed by the game cloud system; presenting a user interface to the first user to view and access a plurality of games to be played and executed by the game cloud system; enabling play of a first game and generating a recorded video of the game play by the first user; receiving selection from the first user to define a portion of the recorded video, the selection causing the game cloud system to generate a mini-game, the mini-game includes the portion of the recorded video and an executable portion for the mini-game; receiving a request from the first user to post the mini-game to a website to enable other users to view the portion of the recorded video and play the executable portion of the mini-game, the request includes a challenge comment that is to be posted along with the mini-game; posting the mini-game along with the challenge comment at the website; storing one or more game plays of the mini-game as mini-game play videos, the mini-game play videos associated to the post of the mini-game along with any comments made by the other users that played the mini-game, wherein the method is executed by a processor.