Patent ID: 9517414
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F,G09B

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating creation of an online game, comprising: obtaining a data set and a game template for the online game from an online gaming framework, wherein the data set comprises a list of items and corresponding attributes for each item in the list of items, wherein the game template comprises a set of game mechanics for implementing the game, and wherein the data set and the game template are independent; enabling, at the online gaming framework, a user to select one or more subsets of the data set for use with the game template; and creating, at the online gaming framework, the online game from the game template and data from the one or more subsets without requiring manual input of the data into the game template by the user, wherein the online gaming framework enables the efficient reuse of data sets and game templates for the creation of new games.