Patent ID: 9186575
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of breeding virtual animals in an online game that is accessed through a website of game networking system that supports the online game, the method comprising: receiving instructions for initiating an animal breeding in the online game, the instructions being received through a game interface of a user machine corresponding to a player in the online game, the game interface being enabled by communications with the website of the game networking system that supports the online game, the instructions including a selection of a male animal and a female animal of a virtual animal type, and each of the selected animals being visually characterized by a corresponding parameter set that includes one or more color parameters; generating, with at least one computer, from the male-animal parameter set and the female-animal parameter set, an offspring-animal parameter set that visually characterizes an offspring animal of the virtual animal type, the generating of the offspring-animal parameter set including: providing values from the offspring-animal parameter set to the user machine corresponding to the player in the online game for a corresponding display at the game interface.