Patent ID: 8313364

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: determining 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; 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; 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; determining a game state of the game instance of the computer-implemented game of the second player at a second time succeeding the first time; and 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 the game state of the game instance at the second time, the one or more second in-game actions being consistent with the game state of the game instance at the second time.