Game Notification System for Live Stream Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Players in video games often face difficulties in accomplishing tasks due to lack of access to strategies used by skilled players, and the dynamic nature of tasks in multiplayer games makes it hard to stay updated on opponent tactics.
Innovation Solution
A system that provides notifications of unscheduled video game play events, allowing users to request and receive live streams or video game state information, with a server monitoring and collating requests to match user interests with ongoing game events, and utilizing this information for matchmaking and notification purposes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users manually search for and watch skilled players' gameplay to learn strategies, then they can access tactical information, but this consumes significant time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically pushes gameplay notifications to users based on their subscribed players and games, eliminating the need for users to manually search for and watch skilled players' gameplay. The notification system serves itself by autonomously identifying and delivering relevant gameplay information.
Solution Approach 2:
Users pre-subscribe to specific players and games they are interested in before gameplay occurs. The system then proactively pushes notifications when subscribed players engage in gameplay, preparing users in advance rather than requiring post-hoc searching.
2Loss of information
If the system pushes notifications for all gameplay events, then users receive comprehensive information, but users experience information overload and distraction
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system applies different qualities of information delivery to different users based on their specific subscriptions. Each user receives a customized subset of gameplay notifications tailored to their interests in particular players and games, rather than a uniform broadcast to all users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the player base into different notification groups based on subscription preferences. Users can selectively subscribe to notifications from specific players or games, creating segmented notification streams that reduce overall information overload while maintaining relevance.
3Productivity
If the system monitors and pushes notifications for numerous subscribed players and games, then user engagement increases, but server computational load and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges notification requests from multiple users who are interested in the same player or game into a single monitoring instance. This consolidation reduces redundant computational overhead while maintaining comprehensive coverage of all subscribed gameplay events.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification server implements a universal monitoring mechanism that can handle multiple players and games through a single system architecture. This multi-functional approach allows the server to efficiently manage diverse notification subscriptions without proportionally increasing computational complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Users may request notification of occurrence of video game play events. Upon occurrence of the video game play events, the users may be provided access to live streams of play of the video games. In some embodiments the video game play events may occur across play of a multitude of video games using a multitude of game hosts, including in some embodiments different video games, and play of the video games may be at unscheduled times.