Multi-user game system with trigger-based generation of projection view

A game control system for trigger-based generation of projection views, the game control system comprising:

• a communication interface that receives communications sent from a plurality of user devices playing an electronic game title, the communications from each user device comprising respective game information regarding a respective different view associated with a respective user-controlled character, wherein the respective different view corresponds to a respective display of a game environment at the respective user device;
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• one or more processors that execute a camera game client to:
• execute a game client in a virtual machine, wherein the game client executed on the virtual machine is identified as a camera game client and establishes a camera character at a first location within the game environment, and the camera character controlled through the virtual machine, and wherein the game client is executed to provide a view associated with the camera character that includes status data created for the camera character;
• provide a projection view of the first location, the projection view corresponding to the view associated with the camera character of the first location within the game environment, wherein the status data created for the camera character is omitted from the projection view;
• identify one or more in-game triggers that have been satisfied based on the respective game information of one or more user-controlled characters, wherein the in-game triggers are associated with a different location in the game environment;
• moving the camera character to the different location based on the identified triggers, wherein the moved camera character is associated with a view of the different location;
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• generate an updated projection view of the different location based on the view associated with the camera character at the different location, wherein the updated projection view also omits the status data created for the camera character.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for trigger-based generation of projection views, the method comprising:

• receiving communications sent to a game control system from a plurality of user devices playing an electronic game title, the communications from each user device comprising respective game information regarding a respective different view associated with a respective user-controlled character, wherein the respective different view corresponds to a respective display of a game environment at the respective user device;
• executing a game client in a virtual machine of the game control system, wherein the game client executed on the virtual machine is identified as a camera game client and establishes a camera character at a first location within the game environment, the camera character controlled by the game control system through the virtual machine, and wherein the game client is executed to provide a view associated with the camera character that includes status data created for the camera character;
• providing a projection view of the first location to a display screen, the projection view corresponding to the view associated with the camera character at the first location within the game environment, wherein the status data created for the camera character is omitted from the projection view;
• identifying one or more in-game triggers that have been satisfied based on the respective game information of one or more user-controlled characters, wherein the in-game triggers are associated with a different location in the game environment;
• moving the camera character to the different location based on the identified triggers, wherein the moved camera character is associated with a view of the different location;
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• generating an updated projection view of the different location based on the view associated with the camera character at the different location, wherein the updated projection view also omits the status data created for the camera character.