Patent ID: 8317606
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A video game development system providing enhanced feedback to developers regarding game modifications, comprising: a communications hub module running on a hub server communicatively linked with first and second video game platforms having game engines with differing configurations; a video game development tool running on a computer system and communicatively linked with the communications hub module, the video game development tool operable to perform modifications of video game data; and an authoring module associated with the video game development tool and operating after the modifications of the video game data to transmit an authoring message to the communications hub module, the authoring message including content based on the modifications to the video game data, wherein the communications hub module generates game data update messages from the authoring messages and forwards the game data update messages to the first and second video game platforms, and wherein the game engines of the first and second video game platforms concurrently run a like video game using game data including the modifications of the video game data, the differing configurations of the game engines causing the game data to be processed to produce first and second game effects based on the modifications to the video game data and the video game including a character or a game element controlled in response to player input.