Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Christopher Navin Stewart

Brent Ryan Nash

David Hendrik Verfaillie

Syed Suhaib Sarmad Barbero

Jorge Oseguera

Drew Repasky

Ilia Rotelli

Troy Allen Woolman

Christopher Talucci

A video game client on a client device may, for example, be operated by a broadcasting game player, and the client device may capture video generated by a video game client and transmit (e.g., stream) the video to one or more spectators. The video game client may include a local server component, such as a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server, which executes locally at the client device. The local server component may be employed to provide statistical information from the video game to a local client component, such as a web interface. The statistical information provided by the local server component may be included in one or more visual display items that are generated by the client device. The visual display items may be included in the video that is captured and transmitted by the client device, thereby potentially providing live streaming statistical information to spectators of the video game.

Streaming video game statistics

Technology is described for electronic game interaction. A request may be received to generate an electronic link for an electronic game session hosted by a game server in a computing service environment. The electronic link may enable one or more game interactions to be performed with the electronic game session. The electronic link may be generated for the electronic game session to include link information. The link information may include one or more game parameters associated with the electronic game session that are to be included in the electronic link. The electronic link may be provided for inclusion in an electronic page. An activation of the electronic link by a target gaming device may enable the target gaming device to perform a game interaction with the electronic game session.

Interacting using an electronic link

Useful metadata can be embedded directly into dynamically rendered content in a way that is minimally perceptible to a viewer. Objects to be rendered for an application, such as backgrounds and gameplay elements for a gaming application, can have their appearance modified in order to embed specified metadata. The modifications can impact the color, patterns, configuration, or other aspects of the objects. The metadata can include any data useful for identifying a state, context, or configuration for the presentation of content, such as the state of a game at the time of rendering, as well as information about the player or device corresponding to a device-specific rendering of the content. A video segment including a representation of the rendered content can be analyzed to quickly identify and extract the metadata, which can help to quickly obtain the information needed to perform certain tasks, such as debugging or issue spotting.

Embedding metadata in rendered content

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Christopher Navin Stewart