Lighting for video games

A computer program product for controlling illumination emitted by one or more luminaires of a lighting system to accompany video games played in an environment illuminated by the illumination from said one or more luminaires;

• wherein the computer program product comprises code embodied on a computer-readable storage medium and configured so as when run on one or more control devices to perform operations of:
• detecting implicit triggers in the video games, the detection of each of the implicit triggers being based on analysing audio and/or video content output during gameplay and/or an effect on one or more players invoked by the audio and/or video content during gameplay, wherein each of the implicit triggers corresponds to a respective one of a set of predefined event types;
• based on detecting a first one of said implicit triggers in a first one of the video games, identifying a first event occurring within the first video game as being of a first one of said predefined event types;
• reading first metadata associated with the first video game, the first metadata specifying a classification of the first video game from amongst a set of predefined classifications;
• based on said identification of the first event as being of said first identified type, and in dependence on the classification of the first video game as specified in the first metadata, controlling the illumination emitted by the one or more luminaires to produce a first lighting effect to accompany the first event during gameplay of the first video game
• based on detecting a further instance of the first implicit trigger in a second one of the video games, identifying a second event occurring within the second video game as being of the first predefined event type;
• reading second metadata associated with the second video game, the second metadata specifying a classification of the second video game from amongst said set of predefined classifications, the classification of the second video game being different from the classification of the first video game;
• based on said identification of the second event as being of the first predefined event type, and on the classification of the second video game as specified in the second metadata being different than the classification of the first video game, controlling the illumination emitted by the one or more luminaires to produce a second lighting effect to accompany the occurrence of the second event during gameplay of the second video game, wherein the second lighting effect is visibly distinct from the first lighting effect.

A method of controlling illumination emitted by one or more luminaires of a lighting system to accompany video games played in an environment illuminated by the illumination from said one or more luminaires;

• wherein the method comprises:
• detecting implicit triggers in the video games, the detection of each of the implicit triggers being based on analysing audio and/or video content output during gameplay and/or an effect on one or more players invoked by the audio and/or video content during gameplay, wherein each of the implicit triggers corresponds to a respective one of a set of predefined event types;
• based on detecting a first one of said implicit triggers in a first one of the video games, identifying a first event occurring within the first video game as being of a first one of said predefined event types;
• reading first metadata associated with the first video game, the first metadata specifying a classification of the first video game from amongst a set of predefined classifications;
• based on said identification of the first event as being of said first identified type, and in dependence on the classification of the first video game as specified in the first metadata, controlling the illumination emitted by the one or more luminaires to produce a first lighting effect to accompany the first event during gameplay of the first video game
• based on detecting a further instance of the first implicit trigger in a second one of the video games, identifying a second event occurring within the second video game as being of the first predefined event type;
• reading second metadata associated with the second video game, the second metadata specifying a classification of the second video game from amongst said set of predefined classifications, the classification of the second video game being different from the classification of the first video game;
• based on said identification of the second event as being of the first predefined event type, and on the classification of the second video game as specified in the second metadata being different than the classification of the first video game, controlling the illumination emitted by the one or more luminaires to produce a second lighting effect to accompany the occurrence of the second event during gameplay of the second video game, wherein the second lighting effect is visibly distinct from the first lighting effect.