Riot Games, Inc.

Christina Norman

Paul Sottosanti

George Skleres

Brett Harris

Jason Cohen

Carl Kwoh

Victor Keenan

Brooks Bouchard

Kam-Wing Fung

Li Jia Tan

Brian Carter Feeney

Alexander Nixon Huang

Kuo-Yen Lo

A method for identifying and selecting an object in a virtual or real environment is disclosed. The method comprises: determining a target finder area, at a computing device, within an area displayed by the user interface based on a user profile; determining a list of one or more objects within the target finder area; and presenting one or more of the determined list of one or more objects on the user interface.

Methods and systems for object selection

Systems, methods, and media are provided for the selective indication of the presence of off-screen objects in the shared gaming environment of a multiplayer game played on a mobile device. The shared gaming environment can include a game space and a plurality of objects located at various places of the game space. The player may view a portion of the game space via a screen view presented by the mobile device. The screen view can be bordered by a frame area that includes a portion of the game space that is outside of the screen view. Based on a predetermined rule set, the presence of an object that is located within the frame area can be selectively indicated within the screen view by a visual indicator, such as an icon. The visual indicator can be assembled from a library of elements to visually communicate contextually relevant information to the player.

Selective indication of off-screen object presence

In various examples, when a user presses a button to interact with an object while playing a mobile video game, a prioritization zone around a targeting reticle can be defined. If the user positions the prioritization zone on a group of objects, a set of prioritization rules are applied to identify high importance objects (e.g., game Champions) in the prioritization zone. Based on the prioritization rules, the system can select the identified high importance object found inside the prioritization zone that is closest to the targeting reticle. In some embodiments, the prioritization zone is activated only for a defined period of time after the user presses the attack button. If the user releases the attack button during the defined period of time, the system can identify any of the objects in the prioritization zone and select a high importance object to interact with (e.g., launch an attack).

Rapid target selection with priority zones

The field of the invention relates to multi-user online gaming systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable a spectator's experience for online active games. In an embodiment, an online multiuser game system includes an online game session server system communicatively coupled to a public network for access by a plurality of users to establish a plurality of real-time interactive games sessions. The online multiuser game system further includes a spectator server communicatively coupled to the online game session server system and configured to enable a user to view summary information of an active game session. In another embodiment, the spectator server enables the user to time shift the active game session and to view the summary information of the active game session. In another embodiment, the spectator server enables the user to view the summary information of the active game session while the user is playing the active game session.

Video game system with spectator mode hud

Video game system with spectator mode HUD

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Christina Norman