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US 10,300,393 B2Granted
Music based video game with components
AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsJamie Jackson, Dave Osbourn, Neil Wigfield, Chris Coates, Paul Turland, Pete O'Donnell, James Norris, Lee Roberts
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Abstract
A video game includes a plurality of components providing for opportunities for increased social interaction of users playing the video game. The video game may be a music-based video game, and a server may provide content of the video game to game devices for play at predefined times.
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A method for providing for video game play, comprising:
- determining a time period for play of video game content, the video game content comprising audio information, visual information for display, and instructive cue information for a plurality of songs, the instructive cue information for each particular song in the plurality of songs providing instructions to a user for manipulation of an input device during play of the particular song;
- transmitting, over a network, scheduling information of the time period for play of the video game content to a plurality of game devices;
- receiving over the network requests from at least some of the plurality of game devices for the video game content, for play during the time period;
- transmitting, over the network, the video game content to the at least some of the plurality of game devices, for play during the time period;
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- further comprising determining if there is a lull, the lull being a predetermined duration in which a user need not comply with the instructive cues, and in response to determining the presence of the lull, commanding display of posts generated by users who have been identified as friends of a particular user.
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