Bandwidth and processing efficient heatmaps

A computer readable non-transitory medium comprising a plurality of executable programmatic instructions wherein, when said plurality of executable programmatic instructions are executed by a processor in a computing device, a process for generating and displaying a heatmap is performed, while a player is actively playing a video game on the computing device, said plurality of executable programmatic instructions comprising:

• programmatic instructions, stored in said computer readable non-transitory medium, for recording data representative of a plurality of events in said video game, wherein said plurality of events occurs at one or more coordinates within a virtual geographical landscape of said video game;
• programmatic instructions, stored in said computer readable non-transitory medium, for forming a second map by dividing said virtual geographical landscape into a plurality of subsections, wherein the secondary map has a lower resolution than said virtual geographical landscape;
• programmatic instructions, stored in said computer readable non-transitory medium, for generating performance metrics based on said data;
• programmatic instructions, stored in said computer readable non-transitory medium, for assigning said generated performance metrics to the plurality of subsections based on said one or more coordinates;
• programmatic instructions, stored in said computer readable non-transitory medium, for generating a heatmap by generating a non-alphanumeric visual representation of said performance metrics and overlaying said non-alphanumeric visual representation of said performance metrics on said secondary map, wherein the overlaying is based on to which of the plurality of subsections said generated performance metrics was assigned;
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• programmatic instructions, stored in said computer readable non-transitory medium, for displaying the heatmap.