Systems and methods for procedural game content generation via interactive non-player game entities

US10086276B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Disney Enterprises, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert Lowe · Layton, US
• Joseph Logan Olson · Avalon, US
• David C. White, Jr. · St. Petersburg, US
• Troy R. Johnson · North Logan, US
• Jared Schibel · Burbank, US
• Jason Scanlon · Cumming, US
• Chad Liddell · Taylorsville, US
• Christopher Shen · Richmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2015
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2018
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63F13/825
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing content in a virtual space are presented herein. The content may be generated in the virtual space by a non-player game entity. The non-player game entity may be associated with generating a particular type of content in the virtual space. The users may deploy the non-player game entities in the virtual space in order to generate the corresponding non-player game entity-generated content in the virtual space. The non-player game entity-generated content may be implemented through procedural placement of elements of the content within the virtual space. The non-player game entity-generated content comprise one or more of static content, moving content, interactive content (e.g., a game), and/or other types of content.