Patent ID: 8574076

Claim:
A method comprising: associating a first real-world item with a first virtual-world item; associating a second real-world item with a second virtual-world item; associating a combining of the first virtual-world item and the second virtual-world item with an effect on a virtual world of a computer-implemented game; detecting an interaction between the first real-world item and the second real-world item; and interpreting the interaction between the first real-world item and the second real-world item as the combining of the first virtual-world item and the second virtual-world, wherein the first virtual item is a first ingredient of a third virtual-world item and the second virtual item is a second ingredient of the third virtual-world item; and implementing the effect on the virtual world of the computer-implemented game based on the interpreting, wherein the third virtual-world item is consumable by the at least one of a player character of the first player of the computer-implemented game and a player character of the second player of the computer-implemented game.