Providing leaderboard based upon in-game events

• US 9,919,222 B1
• Filed: 06/02/2017
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabam (Netmarble Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabam (Netmarble Corporation)
• Inventors: Curtis, Matthew, Koh, James, Smalley, Kellen Christopher, Caldarone, Michael C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, David L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hall, Shauna-Kay
• Application Number:
  US15/612,967
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• Field of Search: 463 31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/31 Communication aspects specific to video games, e.g. between several handheld game devices at close range
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46

Abstract

An approach to facilitate providing leaderboards based upon in-game events within a game space. The leaderboards based on user progress to achieving one or more administrator defined objectives within the game space, where each objective requires the completion of one or more activities. An objective metric for the first user, indicating the first user'"'"'s progress toward achieving the objective may be determined, based upon one or more activity metric values for the first user. The activity metric values providing an indication of the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing activities required to be completed to achieve the objective, as defined by an administrator.

Claims

1. A system for providing a leaderboard based upon in-game events within a game space, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

execute an instance of an online game, and to implement the instance to facilitate interaction by users with the online game;

obtain an objective definition of an administrator-specified objective to be achieved by users of the online game as part of a limited time event within the online game, wherein completion of the objective requires multiple activities to be performed in the online game, the multiple activities being associated with the objective to be completed by users;

determine activity metric values for the users based upon the users'"'"' progress toward completing individual ones of the multiple activities defined in the objective definition, such that a first activity metric value is determined for a first user based upon the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing a first activity independent of the first user'"'"'s progress toward other ones of the activities, and a second activity metric value is determined for a second user based upon the second user'"'"'s progress toward completing the first activity independent of the second user'"'"'s progress toward the other ones of the activities;

determine objective metric values for the users indicating the users'"'"' progress toward achieving the objective, based upon the activity metric values for the users, such that a first objective metric value for the first user is determined based upon the first activity metric value for the first user;

effectuate presentation of a first leaderboard for the first activity, the first leaderboard including for presentation;

(i) a first identifier and the first activity metric value for the first user and

(ii) a second identifier and a second activity metric value for the second user, in accordance with a relative ranking of the first activity metric value and the second activity metric value; and

effectuate presentation of a second leaderboard for the objective metric values, the second leaderboard including for presentation;

(i) the first identifier and the first objective metric value for the first user, and

(ii) the second identifier and a second objective metric value for the second user, in accordance with a relative ranking of the first objective metric value and the second objective metric value.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

determine a second activity metric value for a second user, wherein the second activity metric value is based upon the second user'"'"'s progress toward completing the first activity, and

determine the second objective metric value for the second user based upon the second activity metric value for the second user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein individual ones of the multiple activities require users to complete multiple actions defined in the objective definition, such that a third activity requires users to complete a first action and a second action.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to determine a first action metric value and a second action metric value for the first user indicating the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing the first action and the second action;

and

determine the third activity metric value indicating the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing the third activity, based on the first action metric value and the second action metric value.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation to the first user of a motivation message, wherein the motivation message comprises an indication of the relative ranking of the activity metric values and/or the relative ranking of the objective metric values.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation to the first user of one or more incentives for achieving a relatively high activity metric value in the relative ranking of the activity metric values.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the incentives include one or more of virtual items, amounts of virtual currency, access to areas in the game space that were previously not accessible to the first user, or access to quests in the game space that were previously not available to the first user.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation to the first user of one or more incentives for achieving the objective defined by an administrator.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the incentives include one or more of virtual items, amounts of virtual currency, access to areas in the game space that were previously not accessible to the first user, or access to quests in the game space that were previously not available to the first user.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

determine the relative ranking of the objective metric values based on the activity metric values for the users.

11. A method for providing a leaderboard based upon in-game events within a game space implemented on a computer system that includes one or more physical processors, the method comprising:

implementing an instance of an online game to facilitate interaction of the users with the online game;

obtaining an objective definition of an administrator-specified objective to be achieved by users of the online game as part of a limited time event within the online game, wherein completion of the objective requires multiple activities to be performed in the online game, the multiple activities being associated with the objective to be completed by users;

determining activity metric values for the users based upon the users'"'"' progress toward completing individual ones of the multiple activities defined in the objective definition, such that a first activity metric value for a first user based upon the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing a first activity independent of the first user'"'"'s progress toward other ones of the activities is determined, and a second activity metric value is determined for a second user based upon the second user'"'"'s progress toward completing the first activity independent of the second user'"'"'s progress toward the other ones of the activities;

determining objective metric values for the users indicating the users'"'"' progress toward achieving the objective, based upon the activity metric values for the users, such that a first objective metric value for the first user based upon the first activity metric value for the first user is determined; and

,

effectuating presentation of a first leaderboard for the first activity, the first leaderboard including for presentation;

(i) a first identifier and the first activity metric value for the first user and

(ii) a second identifier and a second activity metric value for the second user, in accordance with a relative ranking of the first activity metric value and the second activity metric value; and

effectuating presentation of a second leaderboard for the objective metric values, the second leaderboard including for presentation;

(i) the first identifier and the first objective metric value for the first user, and

(ii) the second identifier and a second objective metric value for the second user in accordance with a relative ranking of the first objective metric value and the second objective metric value.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining a second activity metric value for a second user, wherein the second activity metric value is based upon the second user'"'"'s progress toward completing the first activity;

determining the second objective metric value for the second user based upon the second activity metric value for the second user.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein individual ones of the multiple activities require users to complete multiple actions defined in the objective definition, such that a third activity requires users to complete a first action and a second action.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining a first action metric value and a second action metric value for the first user indicating the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing the first action and the second action; and

determining the third activity metric value indicating the first user'"'"'s progress toward completing the third activity, based on the first action metric value and the second action metric value.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

effectuating presentation to the first user of a motivational message, wherein the motivation message comprises an indication of the relative ranking of the activity metric values and/or the relative ranking of the objective metric values.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

effectuating presentation to the first user of one or more incentives for achieving a relatively high activity metric value in the hierarchy of activity metric values.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the incentives include one or more of virtual items, amounts of virtual currency, access to areas in the game space that were previously not accessible to the first user, or access to quests in the game space that were previously not available to the first user.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

effectuating presentation to the first user of one or more incentives for achieving the objective defined by an administrator.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the incentives include one or more of virtual items, amounts of virtual currency, access to areas in the game space that were previously not accessible to the first user, or access to quests in the game space that were previously not available to the first user.

20. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

determining the relative ranking of the objective metric values based on the activity metric values for the users.