Creating publications using gaming-based media content

• US 20060258419A1
• Filed: 05/11/2006
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Planetwide Games Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Planetwide Games Incorporated
• Inventors: Winkler, Marvin, Seibert, Ralph E.
• Application Number:
  US11/433,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20060258419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/822 Strategy games; Role-playing games A63F13/825, A63F13/828 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/30 characterized by output arrangements for receiving control signals generated by the game device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/577 for watching a game played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6009 for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/16 for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements

Abstract

The creation of a personal publication is provided by enabling a user to capture gaming-based media content which is used to populate a page, along with other media and text to create a story or narrative of the actual in-game events. One or more page templates organized into sequential panels may be used to aid in the creation of the story or narrative. A publication, such as a comic book, may then be printed where the publication is comprised of pages based on the aforementioned page template(s) filled with the previously-captured in-game media content, and then augmented with other images, text or graphics.

Claims

1. A method for creating a publication comprising:

capturing media content based on a gaming activity;

populating a plurality of panels of a page template with said media content;

generating a first digital page using said page template and media content;

compiling a plurality digital pages, which includes said first digital page, into a publication.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said gaming activities comprises online role-playing gaming.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said media content includes at least one of video content and image content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said media content includes a video file, and said populating comprises selecting individual frames from said video file to populate said plurality of panels.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising choosing said page template from a plurality of available page templates.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said populating comprises performing a drag-and-drop operation to associate a particular portion of said media content with a particular panel of said plurality of panels.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising inserting text-based content onto said page template.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said text-based content provides serves as a narrative for said media content.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising printing said publication in the form of a comic book.

10. A publication based on media content captured from actual gaming activities, the publication comprising a plurality of pages generated from one or more page templates, wherein the one or more page templates each include a plurality of panels that are populated with portions of said media content.

11. The publication of claim 10, wherein said gaming activities comprises online role-playing gaming.

12. The publication of claim 10, wherein said media content includes at least one of video content and image content.

13. The publication of claim 10, wherein said media content includes a video file, and said plurality of panels are populated with selected frames from said video file.

14. The publication of claim 10, wherein said one or more page templates are user selectable from a plurality of page templates.

15. The publication of claim 10, wherein said plurality of panels are populated by a drag-and-drop operation that associates a particular portion of said media content with a particular panel of said plurality of panels.

16. The publication of claim 10, wherein said publication further includes text-based content that serves as a narrative for said media content.

17. The publication of claim 10, wherein said publication is printed in the form of a comic book.

18. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable medium having computer executable program code embodied therein to create a publication, the computer readable medium having;

computer executable program code to capture media content that is based on a gaming activity;

computer executable program code to populate a plurality of panels of a page template with said media content;

computer executable program code to generate a first digital page using said page template and media content; and

computer executable program code to compile a plurality digital pages, which includes said first digital page, into a publication.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein said gaming activities comprises online role-playing gaming.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein said media content includes at least one of video content and image content.

21. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein said media content includes a video file, and said computer executable program code to populate comprises computer executable program code to select individual frames from said video file for populating said plurality of panels.

22. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising computer executable program code to choose said page template from a plurality of available page templates.

23. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein said computer executable program code to populate comprises computer executable program code to perform a drag-and-drop operation to associate a particular portion of said media content with a particular panel of said plurality of panels.

24. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising computer executable program code to insert text-based content onto said page template.

25. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein said text-based content provides serves as a narrative for said media content.

26. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising computer executable program code to print said publication in the form of a comic book.