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US 2025/0375709 A1Published application
Cloud-based platform for real-world experimentation driven game incubation at scale
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorChen Yao
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Abstract
A cloud-based platform significantly lowers the barrier to creating and testing gaming concepts. On the platform, game developers can publish and test a full game, or just a self-contained mission or activity, to allow maximum agility to test and get quick market feedback on a granular discrete set of gaming concepts.
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A method comprising:
- providing a cloud-based service executed by at least one network server;
- the service provisioning cloud resources including storage, compute power, and auto-scaling of at least a first prototype computer game for execution on at least a first game play device;
- deploying, from the service, the first prototype computer game to the first game play device;
- receiving game play data from the first game play device;
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- providing analysis results of the first game play data to an independent (indie) developer of the first prototype computer game.
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A processor system configured to:
- receive communication from an independent (“indie”) developer of a first prototype computer game at at least one server over a wide area network;
- using the server, enable the indie developer to develop the first prototype computer game;
- using the server, provide the first protype computer game over the wide area network to at least a first game play device;
- receive game play data at the server from the first game play device executing the first prototype computer game;
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- provide analysis of the game play data to the indie developer.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one computer memory that is not a transitory signal and that includes instructions executable by at least one processor system to:
- establish on at least one network server a facility to allow game developers to develop and test computer games;
- stream one or more of the computer games to game play devices;
- receive from the game play devices game play data;
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- provide access to the game play data and/or analysis thereof to the respective game developers.
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