Patent Document ID: 8886550
Application ID: 13969155
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A game analysis system for providing a guidance report for at least one evaluation game, comprising: a historical feature database storing collected feature data of existing games; and an analysis tool coupled with the historical feature database, and comprising a processor and computer readable memory storing software instructions, the instructions causing the analysis tool to: identify a first pattern by comparing feature data of each game of a set of the existing games to every other of the set; identify a position of an evaluation game with respect to the first pattern; generate a recommendation based on the position of the evaluation game with respect to the first pattern, wherein the recommendation is based on an analysis of past trends in the feature data and a prevalence of the feature data in the set of existing games; and present a guidance report that includes the recommendation, wherein the recommendation comprises at least one of a recommended feature to include in the evaluation game and a non-recommended feature to include in the evaluation game, wherein the first pattern comprises a cluster, and wherein (a) when the position falls within the first pattern, the guidance report indicates the evaluation game belongs to a genre group, and (b) when the position falls outside of the first pattern, the guidance report indicates the evaluation game as a breakout from specified genre groups.