Patent ID: 8176124
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A video game development system facilitating communications with at least first and second video game platforms based on at least first and second communication libraries, respectively, comprising: a communications hub module running on a hub server communicatively linked with the first and second video game platforms; memory accessible by the communications hub module storing the first and second communication libraries; and a video game development tool running on a computer system and communicatively linked with the communications hub module, the video game development tool transmitting messages configured based on a client-side communications library providing communication protocols for the communications hub module, wherein the communications hub module receives the transmitted messages, generates first and second game platform messages from the received messages based on the first and second communication libraries, respectively, and forwards the game platform messages to the first and second video game platforms, wherein the first game platform messages have differing format than the second game platform messages, wherein the messages transmitted by the video game development tool include game data for a video game running on the first and second video game platforms, wherein the game platform messages are forwarded to both the first and the second video game platforms, wherein the communications hub module processes each of the messages transmitted by the video game development tool to determine a list of recipients for each of the game platform messages, wherein the list of recipients is determined based on a set of addressees provided in the messages transmitted by the video game development tool, wherein the video game development system further includes a second video came development tool linked with the communications hub module, and wherein the second video game development tool is specified in the set of addressees or is placed on the list of recipients based on the came data in the transmitted messages.