Inventors:
Manuel Uris Bronstein Bendayan - Palo Alto CA, US
Jason Paul Allen - Seattle WA, US
Reed Hobby Shaffner - San Francisco CA, US
Philip Yuen - Mercer Island WA, US
Blunt Jackson - Seattle WA, US
Chih-Jen Huang - Issaquah WA, US
Diwakar Gupta - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:
Zynga Inc. - San Francisco CA
International Classification:
A63F 13/12
Abstract:
A system, machine-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for switching between synchronous and asynchronous game modes is provided. A first game instance of a computer-implemented game of a first player and a second player is generated. The first game instance is generated in a first mode associated with the availability of the second player to play the game. First display data is provided to a client device of the first player to display the first game instance of the game in the first mode. A change in the availability of the second player is identified. A second game instance of the game is generated in a second mode associated with the change in the availability of the second player. Second display data is provided to the client device to display the second game instance of the game in the second mode.