Patent ID: 8814670
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a queuing game, the method comprising: queuing a first player for a multiplayer game, wherein the multiplayer game provides a virtual environment in which players in a first plurality of players interact with one another, and wherein a second plurality of players, inclusive of the first player, are queued for the multiplayer game; upon determining that a plurality of criteria for beginning the multiplayer game have not been satisfied, beginning, by operation of one or more computer processors, a queuing game for the queued first player, wherein upon determining that a first level of the multiplayer game is less played, relative to other levels of the multiplayer game, selecting the first level for use in the queuing game for the queued first player, based at least in part on the queuing game having a predefined association with the first level of the multiplayer game; in response to determining that at least a first criterion of the plurality of criteria has been satisfied, while the first player is playing the queuing game, ending the queuing game for the first player; and beginning the multiplayer game for at least the first player.