Systems and Methods for Tagging Content of Shared Cloud Executed Mini-Games and Tag Sharing Controls

A system for enabling generation of mini-games executed on a cloud computing system, comprising:

• the cloud computing system including,
• a mini-game processor, and
• a tag processor,
• wherein the mini-game processor is configured to generate a mini-game based on a portion of a video recording of game play for a video game title executed for a game player, the tag processor is configured to receive tag content for the mini-game, the tag content is associated with video frames of the video recording of the mini-game, the mini-game being sharable with other users of a social group, the social group having access to view the video frames of the recording for the mini-game and the tag processor handling addition of tag content from users having access through the social group, the tag processor associating user identification to the tag content added to the mini-game.

A computer readable medium having program instructions for enabling tagging of content in a video game title during game play executed on a game cloud system, the computer readable medium comprising:

• (a) program instructions for executing game play of the video game title while receiving user interactive input;
• (b) program instructions for receiving a pause indication from the user interactive input;
• (c) program instructions for suspending the game play and storing game state in response to the pause indication, the suspending acting to hold the video game title in a current frame image;
• (d) program instructions for receiving tag data for the current frame image, the tag data being associated to a location in the current frame image and a user identifier (UID);
• (e) resuming execution of the game play, and repeating (b)-(d) for any additional tag data;
• (f) program instructions for generating a video recording of the game play, the video recording including the tag data;
• and
• (g) program instructions for generating a mini-game from a portion of the video game title, the portion is selected by identifying start and end positions in the video recording,
• wherein the mini-game includes,
• (i) a playable portion to enable view of a portion of the video recording for the mini-game, and
• (ii) an executable portion to enable play of game code for the mini-game that is a portion of the video game title, wherein the method is executed by a processor.