Techniques to automatically provide assistance for electronic games

摘要

Techniques to automatically provide assistance for electronic games are described. An apparatus may comprise a game strategy application arranged to receive as input game telemetry information representing gameplay of an electronic video game on a client device. The game strategy application may process the game telemetry information to determine whether a player of the electronic video game potentially needs assistance, and if so, automatically retrieve appropriate game strategy information from a local or remote datastore. The game strategy application may then send the retrieved game strategy information to the same or different client device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor circuit; and a game strategy application operative on the processor circuit to receive as input game telemetry information representing gameplay by a player of an electronic game from a client device, receive during gameplay a selection to toggle game assistance on or off, retrieve a set of game assist files customized according to a game assist parameter specifying at least one of an assistance modality and a type of assistance, automatically send the set of game assist files as output game strategy information to assist the player of the electronic game in the gameplay based on the game telemetry information to a different client device when the selection of game assistance is toggled on, receive a request for supplemental game assistance from the player via the different client device, and send supplemental game assist files to the different client device in response to the request.