It’s no surprise that video games are big business; with the wildly competitive nature of companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, it was only a matter of time before Apple dipped their foot in the pool.
In 2009, developers at Apple filed a patent to make a person’s video gaming experience even more special: turning your specific game play into your own story. The general gist is that choices which you make during the game will be recorded, and when the game is finished you can get a book or eBook of your game in the form of a comic.
This kind of comic clouding software would be suited only for games with a strong narrative driven plots. Variables such as character options, progress, dialogue, setting, and achievements will be specially arranged with screenshots to tell the story which you had just played. The data would be collected and clouded from the gaming system then an algorithm would cultivate that information, turning it into a linear story. The book would then be downloaded onto a device, or perhaps printed into a physical copy.
It took nearly four years for the US Patent and Trademark Office to award this patent to Apply, alongside 54 others which were published recently. Speculators are unsure of how Apple will use this technology, since their presence in the video game industry is fairly sparse. Some say that they may try to work this with their market dominating tablet, the iPad.
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