Patent ID: 8287341

Claim:
A method comprising, by one or more computing devices: accessing a record of 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; responsive to a second in-game action by the second player, applying one or more third in-game actions based on one or more of the first in-game actions to one or more of the in-game objects in the game instance specific to the second player at a second time succeeding the first time; generating to the second player a request to accept help from the first player; playing back the one or more first in-game actions in response to receiving from the second player a confirmation to accept help from the first player; and 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.