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Game effects from spectating community inputs

  • US 10,376,795 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2015
  • Issued: 08/13/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system, comprising:

  • one or more computing devices configured to implement a spectating system configured to;

    broadcast video received from a broadcaster device to a plurality of spectator devices, wherein the video includes game play of a respective broadcaster participating as a player in a game executing on a game system, wherein the plurality of spectator devices participates as non-player spectators of the game;

    obtain spectator inputs from the plurality of spectator devices;

    analyze the spectator inputs to generate spectating data for the broadcast;

    generate values for one or more game inputs based at least in part on analysis of the spectating data, wherein the one or more game inputs comprise one or both of parametric inputs that provide parametric values for parameters in the game or randomizing inputs that provide an entropy source for randomizing functions in the game, and wherein the one or both of the parametric inputs or the randomizing inputs are weighted based at least in part on the spectating data; and

    expose the one or more game inputs to the game system according to an application programming interface (API) of the spectating system.

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