System and method for managing game-playing experiences

A method of managing game-playing experiences in a system, wherein the system includes one or more game-playing devices provided with communication interfaces for exchanging game-playing experiences therebetween, wherein each device includes computing hardware coupled to a graphical interface for presenting an interactive game thereupon, and wherein the computing hardware is configured to execute one or more game software products including a game experience software module recorded on machine-readable data storage media for generating the interactive game, wherein the method comprises:

• recording an execution of the computer game during execution of the computer game on a game experience software module running on the game playing device, the recorded execution of the computer game comprising a gameplay experience;
• using the game experience software module to generate a stream of metadata concurrently with recording the gameplay experience substantially as presented via the graphical interface;
• the stream of metadata enabling the recorded gameplay experience and an arbitrary number of points or segments of time in the recorded gameplay experience to be subsequently identified, described, analyzed, searched, managed, or edited.