Remote Game Guidance Service via Intermediary Mediator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Players face frustration and churn in video games due to the lack of easily accessible, contextual, and accurate in-game guidance, requiring them to leave the game to search for help online, which is often poorly written, outdated, or irrelevant, leading to increased playtime spent searching rather than playing.
Innovation Solution
A remote networked service providing real-time, user-specific, and in-game contextual guidance through a uniform data platform, accessible via various entry points, which analyzes user data to offer tailored hints and solutions based on their current activity, character build, and statistical analysis of other users' successes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If players search for help online using third party sites, then they can find game guidance, but they have to leave the game and switch devices, resulting in loss of time and immersion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (game guidance service) that mediates between the player and the game content. This service aggregates and analyzes in-game data, then provides contextual guidance through in-game interfaces or connected devices, eliminating the need for players to manually search third-party sites while maintaining continuous engagement with the game environment
Solution Approach 2:
The game guidance service provides multiple functions through a single system: it aggregates data from multiple sources, analyzes player context, generates personalized guidance, and delivers it through various interfaces. This universal system replaces the need for players to visit multiple third-party sites, consolidating help resources into one accessible platform
2Reliability
If comprehensive in-game guidance features are implemented, then player help availability improves, but device complexity and development work increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary service layer that handles the complexity of data aggregation, analysis, and guidance generation. This service acts as a mediator between the game client and the comprehensive guidance system, absorbing implementation complexity while providing reliable help availability to players through standardized interfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The game guidance service provides multiple functions through a single system: it aggregates data from multiple sources, analyzes player context, generates personalized guidance, and delivers it through various interfaces. This universal system consolidates complex functionality into one manageable service that improves help availability without proportionally increasing implementation complexity
3Loss of information
If players use traditional online walkthroughs, then they can find game solutions, but the information is often poorly written, outdated, or not relevant to their specific situation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing guidance that is specifically tailored to the player's current in-game context, character build, and situation. Rather than offering generic walkthroughs, the system analyzes the player's specific state and delivers customized guidance that is locally optimized for their unique circumstances, ensuring relevance and accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where player data is continuously collected, analyzed, and used to refine and personalize guidance. The guidance provided is based on feedback from the player's actual game state, and the system learns from player interactions to improve future guidance recommendations, ensuring continuously improving information quality
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AI summary
Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing contextual game guidance are described herein. An example method includes determining based on contextual information regarding an application an objective of the user; automatically deriving based on the contextual information and the objective contextual guidance to assist the user; generating a user interface having the contextual guidance; and transmitting the user interface to a client device.