Game Message Routing System for Social Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social games often limit user interaction and cooperation based on real-world friend relationships, leading to reduced opportunities for users with fewer friends to participate and collaborate effectively.
Innovation Solution
A game system and method that allows users to send messages to other users within the same group or approved users, enabling cooperation regardless of real-world relationships, through a friend-to-friend or random sending method, where messages can be forwarded to the game without specifying a recipient, promoting user interaction and collaboration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are limited to sending help requests only to real-world friends on SNS, then the system maintains simplicity in user relationship management, but users with fewer friends have reduced opportunities to participate and cooperate in the game
Solution Approach 1:
The message sending system is segmented into two distinct paths: friend-to-friend sending (for real-world friends) and random sending (for unknown users). This segmentation allows the system to maintain simplicity for users with many friends while providing additional opportunities for users with fewer friends through the random sending option.
Solution Approach 2:
The game server acts as an intermediary that receives help requests from users and automatically selects appropriate recipients from its database of registered users. This mediator approach enables users to send requests without specifying recipients, expanding participation opportunities while keeping the user interface simple.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users send help requests to unspecified recipients through the game server, then users gain more cooperation opportunities regardless of real-world relationships, but the message routing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The game server serves as an intermediary that receives help requests without specified recipients and automatically selects appropriate users from its database. This mediator handles the routing complexity internally, allowing users to send requests to unspecified recipients while maintaining simple user-side interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the game server selects recipients based on game state, user availability, and cooperation needs, then notifies the sending user of the selection. This feedback loop manages the complexity of random routing by providing transparency and control to users.
3Productivity
If the system supports both friend-to-friend and random message sending, then user engagement increases regardless of friend network size, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The message sending functionality is divided into two separate modes: friend-to-friend sending and random sending. Each mode has its own workflow and recipient selection mechanism, allowing the system to support diverse user needs while managing complexity through clear functional separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The game server implements multi-functionality by supporting both direct friend-based message routing and random recipient selection within a single unified system. This universal approach enables the system to serve users with different social network sizes and preferences without requiring separate systems.
Data Source
AI summary
During execution of a game, a user terminal sends, to a first server, a message sending request for sending a message without specifying a recipient. Responsive to receiving the message sending request, the first server selects a user specified as the recipient of the message. The first server sends, to a second server, a message sending request for sending the message while specifying the selected user as the recipient and indicating a game management account as a sender.