Patent ID: 8628423

Claim:
A method for presenting hints to a player engaged with an interactive video gaming environment having a plurality of segments, the method comprising: receiving, at a remote server, a plurality of videos from a plurality of players of the interactive video gaming environment, wherein each of the plurality of videos (i) is created by one of the plurality of players, (ii) includes a hint that corresponds to one of the plurality of segments within the interactive video gaming environment, and (iii) includes data that indicates a selected association between the hint and the one of the plurality of segments, as selected by the one of the plurality of players who created the video; receiving, at the remote server from a player equipment, an action relating to game play in the interactive video gaming environment, wherein the action is an automatically generated hint request for presenting at least one of the plurality of videos having the corresponding hint, wherein the hint request is automatically generated, without receiving player input for the hint request based on player progress of the game play within the interactive video gaming environment, wherein the player progress is determined by processing circuitry of either one of the remote server or the player equipment; determining, at the remote server, whether the action is associated with one of the plurality of segments; in response to determining the action is associated with one of the plurality of segments, selecting, at the remote server, one of the plurality of videos that includes the hint that corresponds to the one of the plurality of segments associated with the action; and transmitting the selected one of the plurality of videos to the player equipment for display.