Patent ID: 8636594

Claim:
A method of playing a game executed on a touch screen device, comprising: detecting, in a first region of the touchscreen device, a selection of a resource to be deployed to a second region of the touch screen device, the resource comprising a game piece; detecting a selection of two or more areas of the second region by a selection device by: determining that the selection comprises selection of multiple individual areas in the second region; determining that the selection comprises a multi-point touch, the multi-point touch comprising the substantially simultaneous selection of two or more areas in the second region; or determining that the selection comprises a swipe, the swipe comprising a selection of multiple areas of the second region along a substantially continuous path; and deploying an instance of the selected resource to each of the two or more selected areas in the second region, the second region including a target game element and the instances of the selected resource being presented in the second region in proximity to the target game element; and determining a number of the instances of the selected resource to be deployed to the second region by: detecting a pressure on the touch screen device associated with the detected selection of the two or more areas and instantiating a number of the selected resource based on the detected pressure, wherein detecting a higher pressure corresponds to a greater number of instances of the selected resource being presented in the second region.