Patent ID: 11964206
Assignee: GARENA ONLINE PRIVATE LIMITED
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method for shrinking an area in battle royale games, the method comprising:
generating, within a graphical user interface presented on a display of a user device, a map of a gaming environment comprising a playing area configured to shrink discontinuously at a variable shrinking rate, the variable shrinking rate having a default rate value;
determining that a shrink operation of the playing area is to be initiated;
in response to determining that the shrink operation of the playing area is to be initiated, determining whether a number of players alive in the gaming environment at a time when the shrink operation of the playing area is to be initiated, is equal to or lower than a threshold value;
in response to determining that the number of players alive in the gaming environment at the time when the shrink operation of the playing area is to be initiated is equal to or lower than the threshold value, increasing the variable shrink rate to a rate value greater than the default rate value;
shrinking the playing area from a first configuration to a second configuration in accordance with the increased variable shrink rate over a period of time, wherein a speed at which the playing area shrinks from the first configuration to the second configuration in accordance with the increased variable shrink rate is faster than a speed at which the playing area shrinks from the first configuration to the second configuration in accordance with the default rate value of the variable shrinking rate; and
wherein the graphical user interface presented within the display of the user device presents the shrinking of the playing area of the map from the first configuration to the second configuration in accordance with the increased variable shrink rate.