Synchronous cross-experience party-based engagement

A non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a processing device, causes the processing device to perform or control performance of operations to enable synchronous party-based interaction across multiple virtual experiences, each virtual experience corresponding to an instance hosted by a server on a virtual experience platform, the operations comprising:

• causing individual users in a group of two or more users to join a first virtual experience on the virtual experience platform by forming communication sessions between client devices of the individual users with a first server on the virtual experience platform that hosts a first instance of the first virtual experience;
• forming a party connection between the users in the group in the first virtual experience by using a party connection management data structure;
• providing the users in the group with a first interface that enables the users to collaboratively interact in the first virtual experience via the party connection;
• and
• transitioning from the first virtual experience to a second virtual experience on the virtual experience platform by using the party connection management data structure to maintain the party connection by forming communication sessions between the client devices of the users in the group with a second server on the virtual experience platform that hosts a particular instance of the second virtual experience,
• wherein the virtual experience platform hosts multiple instances of the second virtual experience and wherein maintaining the party connection between the users in the group during transitioning comprises performing the transition so that the users are placed in the particular instance of the second virtual experience.

A system comprising:

• a memory with instructions stored thereon;
• and
• a processing device, coupled to the memory, the processing device configured to access the memory and execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processing device to perform or control performance of operations to enable synchronous party-based interaction across multiple virtual experiences, each virtual experience corresponding to an instance hosted by a server on a virtual experience platform, the operations comprising:
• causing individual users in a group of two or more users to join a first virtual experience on the virtual experience platform by forming communication sessions between client devices of the individual users with a first server on the virtual experience platform that hosts a first instance of the first virtual experience;
• forming a party connection between the users in the group in the first virtual experience by using a party connection management data structure;
• providing the users in the group with a first interface that enables the users to collaboratively interact in the first virtual experience via the party connection;
• and
• transitioning from the first virtual experience to a second virtual experience on the virtual experience platform by using the party connection management data structure to maintain the party connection by forming communication sessions between the client devices of the users in the group with a second server on the virtual experience platform that hosts a particular instance of the second virtual experience,
• wherein the virtual experience platform hosts multiple instances of the second virtual experience and wherein maintaining the party connection between the users in the group during transitioning comprises performing the transition so that the users are placed in the particular instance of the second virtual experience.