Patent ID: 8282458

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: recording one or more first in-game actions by a first player on one or more in-game objects in a game instance comprising a discrete game play area specific to a second player of a computer-implemented game at a first time; generate to the second player a request to accept help from the first player; dismissing the one or more first in-game actions in response to receiving from the second player a dismissal to accept help from the first player; displaying the recorded one or more first in-game actions by the first player on the one or more in-game objects in the game instance at the first time to the second player at a second time succeeding the first time in response to receiving from the second player a confirmation to accept help from the first player; and responsive to an in-game action by the second player, applying, using at least one processor of a machine, one or more second in-game actions to one or more of the in-game objects in the game instance at the second time based on the one or more first in-game actions by the first player and a game state of the game instance at the second time.