Zynga Inc.

Matthew Adam Ocko

Amitt Mahajan

Brian Reynolds

Jay Monahan

Justin Potter Driemeyer

Nathan Arthur Etter

Carl Eric Schiermeyer

William Henry Kelly Mooney

Ian Wang

Erik Paul Bethke

Scott Koenigsberg

Mark Pincus

Kevin Thomas Hagan

Shantanu Talapatra

Donald C Mosites

Justin Waldron

Deniz Ersever

Benjamin Mullin

Kathleen Auterio

Serena Lam

Jackson Wang

Hardik Kheskani

Christopher Joseph Makarsky

Shane Ishmael Sareli

Jason Samuel McGuirk

Nicholas John Tornow

Darren Ryan Craine

Sim Singh

Michael Arieh Luxton

Tim Terence Trampedach

Harsimran Singh

Revant Kapoor

John Marsland

Emily Anadu

Matt Levine

Edmund Leo

Stephen Henry Schoettler

Erik Francis Vanbragt

Roger F Dickey

Jonathan Chang Tien

Sudhanshu Pintu Sethi

Michael Broom

Dorion Carroll

Robert Aaron Jones

Shane Saraeli

Bill Mooney

Joel Poloney

Nick Tornow

Aaron Jones

Shane Ishmaei Sareli

A method of providing virtual items based on location-based action is disclosed. An indication is received of a performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game. A virtual item is provided based on the receiving of the indication of the performance of the location-based action by the player of the computer-implemented game. The virtual item may be usable within the computer-implemented game.

Providing virtual items based on location-based actions

A method of changing a virtual world of a computer-implemented game based on real-world locations of players of the computer-implemented game is disclosed. A presence of a player of the computer-implemented game is detected at a physical location. A presence of an additional player of the computer-implemented game is detected at the physical location based on a communication received from the player of the computer-implemented game. An aspect of the virtual world of the computer-implemented game is changed based on the detecting of the presence of the player at the physical location and the detecting of the presence of the additional player of the computer-implemented game at the physical location.

Changing a virtual world based on real-world locations of players

A method of incentivizing location-based actions by groups is disclosed. A group of users of a game networking system is notified that an incentive reward is to be provided based on a number of members of the group performing a location-based action transgressing a threshold. The incentive reward is provided based on the number of members of the group performing the location-based action transgressing the threshold.

Incentivizing location-based actions by groups

The present disclosure relates to games and applications in general and in particular to computer-implemented online games, such as online role-playing games, playable by more than one person from more than one location. The game engine can search a player's social network to find friends to play with. These social networks can be constructed implicitly by analyzing a player's game play information and other information.

Finding friends for multiuser online games

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for limiting transfer of virtual currency in an online game. One method includes an operation for receiving, at a server, a purchase order for virtual currency from a first player. The purchase order is made with legal currency, and the virtual currency is usable within a computer-implemented gambling game. Further, the method includes operations for using a particular type of virtual currency available in an account of the first player to purchase a virtual item and a beneficiary is selected for crediting the virtual item. Account of the first player is adjusted to reflect the purchase of the virtual item and the account of the beneficiary is updated to credit the virtual item.

Limiting transfer of virtual currency in a multiuser online game

A method of providing virtual items based on location-based actions is disclosed. An indication is received of a performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game. A virtual item is added to an inventory of a player character of the player of the computer-implemented game based on the receiving of the indication of the performance of the location-based action by the player of the computer-implemented game. The virtual item is usable within the computer-implemented game by the player character of the player of the computer-implemented game.

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Matthew Adam Ocko