Patent ID: 9573058
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A method of operating an interactive computer game on a computer games terminal, comprising: concurrently receiving, at the computer games terminal: during the playing of the interactive computer game, rendering the non-interactive user input data and the interactive game data for display by the computer games terminal and not by the additional computer games terminal, wherein the rendering includes concurrently rendering the interactive game element and a game element associated with a non-interactive games player based on the received control information; and inhibiting any interaction between the non-interactive user input data and the interactive game data, wherein the inhibiting includes preventing any interaction between the interactive game element and the game element associated with the non-interactive games player, wherein the interactive game element and game element associated with the non-interactive games player are first and second avatars, respectively, and wherein the step of rendering the non-interactive user input data and the interactive game data for display includes detecting a coincidence between the position of the second avatar for display associated with the user input data and the first avatar for display associated with the received interactive game data, and responsive thereto to render one of the first and second avatars semi-transparent.