System and method for facilitating user defined virtual space
AssigneeElectronic Arts Inc.
InventorsKent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington
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Abstract
A system and method for facilitating a user defined virtual space is disclosed. One or more virtual space locations and/or activities may be correlated with user specified geolocations. In some implementations, the user specified geolocations may be verified against one or more spatial requirements prior to recording the user selected space-geolocation correlations. A user request to initiate an action or activity in the virtual space may be received. Prior to executing the requested action or activity in the virtual space, the user current geolocation may be verified against that specified in a space-geolocation correlation corresponding to a virtual space location or activity indicated in the user request.
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A system configured to facilitate user defined virtual space, the system comprising:
- one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
- execute an instance of a virtual space, and to implement the instance of the virtual space to facilitate user participation in the virtual space, wherein user participation in the virtual space is facilitated by receiving user requests to initiate actions at locations within the virtual space and executing corresponding actions in the instance, wherein an individual user request specifies an action type in a virtual space location;
- manage user information associated with the individual users, the user information including user selected space-geolocation correlations between geolocations and virtual space locations such that the user accounts include first user information associated with the first user;
- verify that a selection of a first space-geolocation correlation between a first virtual space location and a first geolocation satisfies one or more spatial requirements, wherein the spatial requirements include one or more requirements specified for the user that reflect geographic relationships between or among virtual space locations;
- in response to verification that the first space-geolocation correlation satisfies the spatial requirements, record the first space-geolocation correlation in the first user information associated with the first user;
- obtain geolocation information indicating current geolocations of the users;
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- wherein, responsive to receiving a request from the first user that specifies the first action type, and responsive to the current geolocation of the first user being the first geolocation, an action of the first action type is executed in the instance of the virtual space at the first virtual space location.
A computer-implemented method of facilitating user defined virtual space, the method being implemented in one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions, the method comprising:
- executing an instance of a virtual space;
- implementing the instance of the virtual space to facilitate user participation in the virtual space, wherein the user participation in the virtual space is facilitated by receiving user requests to initiate actions at locations within the virtual space and executing corresponding actions in the instance, wherein an individual user request specifies an action type in a virtual space location;
- managing user information associated with the individual users, the user information including user specified space-geolocation correlations between geolocations and virtual space locations such that the user information include a first user information associated with the first user;
- verifying that a selection of a first space-geolocation correlation between a first virtual space location and a first geolocation satisfies one or more spatial requirements, wherein the spatial requirements include one or more requirements specified for the user that reflect geographic relationships between or among virtual space locations;
- in response to verification that the first space-geolocation correlation satisfies the spatial requirements, recording the first space-geolocation correlation in the first user information associated with the first user;
- obtaining geolocation information indicating current geolocations of the users;
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- responsive to receiving a request from the first user that specifies the first action type, and responsive to the current geolocation of the first user being the first geolocation, executing an action of the first action type in the instance of the virtual space at the first virtual space location.
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