Active trigger poses

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, containing computer program code that, when executed, performs an operation comprising:

• detecting a first interactive game is playing within a physical environment using one or more electronic devices;
• monitoring user movement using at least one sensor device within the physical environment;
• monitoring user speech using one or more microphone sensor devices within the physical environment;
• upon determining that the user movement matches a predefined series of user actions and that the user speech matches a corresponding predefined speech pattern:
• determining a gameplay action corresponding to both the predefined series of user actions and the predefined speech pattern and based on a current context of a story being played in the first interactive game, and wherein the first interactive game includes a plurality of distinct contexts;
• determining an in-game ability to perform within the first interactive game based on the current context of the story, wherein the predefined series of user actions and the predefined speech pattern correspond to a respective distinct in-game ability in each of the plurality of distinct contexts;
• performing the determined in-game ability within the first interactive game and by operation of one or more computer processors when executing the computer program code;
• and
• transmitting an instruction, to at least one of the one or more electronic devices within the physical environment, instructing the at least one electronic device to perform the determined gameplay action.

A system, comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• and
• a memory containing computer program code that, when executed by operation of the one or more computer processors, performs an operation comprising:
• detecting a first interactive game is playing within a physical environment using one or more electronic devices;
• monitoring user movement using at least one sensor device within the physical environment;
• monitoring user speech using one or more microphone sensor devices within the physical environment;
• upon determining that the user movement matches a predefined series of user actions and that the user speech matches a corresponding predefined speech pattern:
• determining a gameplay action corresponding to both the predefined series of user actions and the predefined speech pattern and based on a current context of a story being played in the first interactive game, and wherein the first interactive game includes a plurality of distinct contexts;
• determining an in-game ability to perform within the first interactive game based on the current context of the story, wherein the predefined series of user actions and the predefined speech pattern correspond to a respective distinct in-game ability in each of the plurality of distinct contexts;
• performing the determined in-game ability within the first interactive game;
• and
• transmitting an instruction, to at least one of the one or more electronic devices within the physical environment, instructing the at least one electronic device to perform the determined gameplay action.