Supply delivery for interactive social games

An apparatus comprising:

• an interface to communicate with players of an interactive social game;
• a memory to store data associated with the interactive social game;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the interface and the memory, the one or more processors configured to:
• receive a request for in-game supplies from a first player in the interactive social game;
• present a graphical expression of a supply delivery vehicle in a game instance of the first player in response to receiving the request, the supply delivery vehicle offering a plurality of supply options, each supply option having an associated processing time;
• receive a supply option selection from the first player, the supply option selection indicating selection of one of the plurality of supply options;
• dispatch a graphical expression of a supply delivery vehicle, the supply delivery vehicle being associated with the supply option selection received from the first player and being associated with a supply fulfillment invitation to a second player, the supply fulfillment invitation being associated with an expiration time;
• and
• notify the first player upon completion of the processing time for the selected supply option, the notifying indicating availability of the requested in-game supplies to the first player.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a request for in-game supplies from a first player in an interactive social game;
• presenting a graphical expression of a supply delivery vehicle in a game instance of the first player in response to receiving the request, the supply delivery vehicle offering a plurality of supply options, each supply option having an associated processing time;
• receiving a supply option selection from the first player, the supply option selection indicating selection of one of the plurality of supply options;
• receiving an identity of one or more second players from the first player;
• distributing a supply fulfillment invitation to each of the second players based on the supply option selected by the first player, the supply fulfillment invitation being presented in a game instance of the one or more second players using the graphical expression of the supply delivery vehicle and being associated with an expiration time;
• providing an in-game benefit to the second player in response to acceptance of the supply fulfillment invitation prior to the expiration time;
• and
• notifying the first player upon completion of the processing time for the supply option selected by the first player, the notifying indicating availability of the requested in-game supplies to the first player.