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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Hideo Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for influencing a gaming world of a video game. The method including cross-pollinating a first path using an inter-game communication medium across a plurality of virtual environments of a plurality of asynchronous game plays of a plurality of players playing the video game. The method including determining that a first path has been traversed one or more times by one or more characters of the plurality of players in the plurality of asynchronous game plays. The method including improving the first path based on a number of times the first path has been traversed by the one or more characters. The method including cross-pollinating the first path that has been improved across the plurality of virtual environments.