Allowing Interactive Post of an Online Game within a Social Network

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer programs for sharing a game play over a social network include executing a play session of a game. During execution of the play session, an option is provided to share a portion of the game on a social network. In response to receiving a request to share the portion of the game, an instance of the game is generated at a time when the request is received and is posted to a stream of the social network. The instance of the game inherits a current state of the play session. A reward is generated to a user account that plays the instance in the stream and to the user that initiates the sharing of the portion of the game upon the user playing the instance of the game claims the reward.

主权项

1. A method for sharing game play over a social network, comprising:
executing a play session of a game, during execution of the play session providing an option to share a portion of the game on a social network; in response to receiving a request to share the portion of the game, generating an instance of the game at a time when the request is received, the instance of the game inheriting a current state of the play session, the request to share further acting to post the instance of the game to a stream of the social network; and generating a reward to a user account that plays the instance in the stream and a reward to a user account that initiated the request to share the portion of the game upon the user playing the instance of the game claiming the reward, wherein operations of the method are executed by a processor.