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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2015
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Seth John Sivak, Cambridge, MA (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium for efficiently collecting doobers. A game area may be presented in a graphical user interface on a display device. The game area may include a game character associated with a first player, regions and objects within the regions. The character may move within the regions and interact with the objects. One or more doobers may be presented in the game area, and the doober(s) may be identified as collected by the first player in response to one or more inputs to the graphical user interface by the first player. The doober(s) may be marked as collected if an input is within a particular distance from the doober(s).