Game item management
AssigneeEmpire Technology Development LLC
InventorSeungil KIM
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Abstract
Technologies are generally described for a game item management scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of a game server may include receiving, from a player account, a request to play a game hosted on the game server; determining whether the player account has been dormant based at least in part on an amount of elapsed time between a most recent playing of the game and the receiving; and modifying at least one game item associated with the player account, when the determining indicates that the player account has been dormant.
Claims22
A method performed under control of a game server, comprising:
- receiving, from a player account, a request to play a game hosted on the game server;
- determining whether the player account has been dormant based at least in part on an amount of elapsed time between a most recent playing of the game and the receiving;
- and
- modifying at least one game item associated with the player account, when the determining indicates that the player account has been dormant.
A game server, comprising:
- a play request receiver unit configured to receive, from a player account, a request to play a game hosted on the game server;
- a dormancy determination unit configured to determine whether the player account has been dormant based at least in part on an amount of elapsed time between a most recent playing of the game and the request to play the game;
- and
- a game item modification unit configured to modify at least one game item associated with the player account after the dormancy determination unit determines that the player account has been dormant.
A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a processor to perform operations, comprising:
- receiving, from a player account, a request to play a game hosted on a game server;
- comparing an amount of elapsed time between a most recent playing of the game and the request to play the game with a threshold time period;
- determining that the player account has been dormant when the amount of elapsed time is longer than the threshold time period;
- and
- modifying at least one game item associated with the player account.
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