System and method for sharing score experiences

1. A system for sharing gameplay score experiences, wherein the system comprises:

one or more devices on which one or more games are played;

a gameplay experience service arrangement; and

a communication arrangement for communicatively coupling the one or more devices to the gameplay experience service arrangement, wherein the one or more devices include computing hardware for executing one or more games software products for implementing the one or more games when executed upon the computing hardware, wherein the one or more devices are configured to:

record a gameplay experience played thereupon as multiple individual data streams and an associated score, the multiple individual data streams including a game video, a player video, game event data, microphone sounds, game sounds, game control, game statistics and user interface data and being recorded with temporal information identifying when an event occurred during playing of the game and linking the multiple individual data streams;

share only selected ones of the multiple individual data streams corresponding to the recorded gameplay experience; and

upload the shared individual data streams of the recorded gameplay experience as individual data streams, and the associated score, to the gameplay experience service arrangement which maintains a score list corresponding to uploaded gameplay experiences, and wherein the score list is accessible to the one or more devices for identifying gameplay performances of users of the one or more devices; and

wherein the gameplay experience service arrangement is configured to:

detect a request for replay of an uploaded gameplay experience on the score list from a requesting device of the one or more devices;

detect, in the request, a selection of individual ones of the shared individual data streams to be replayed; and

download the selected individual ones of the individual data streams to the requesting device for replay, the selected individual ones of the individual data streams including a high score associated with the requested gameplay experience and events of the gameplay experience indicating how the high score was achieved.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein uploaded gameplay experiences comprise a plurality of the individual data streams, the plurality of individual data streams being recorded in real-time during playing of the one or more games.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the individual data streams generated at the one or more devices are user-editable before being uploaded as individual data streams to the gameplay experience service arrangement.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the score list is accessible via the one or more devices, and the score list includes links for replaying gameplay experiences associated with scores presented on the score list.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the score list is maintained in an internet web site, and accessible from the one or more devices using browser software in the one or more devices.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the one or more games software products are host games software products into which one or more software components from a GESW API software library have been incorporated.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the one or more devices are wireless-enabled devices implemented by way of at least one of: a smart phone, a laptop computer, a personal computer, a pad computer and a tablet computer.

8. A method of sharing gameplay score experiences using a score sharing system, wherein the method includes:

using one or more devices of the score sharing system for playing one or more games;

communicatively coupling the one or more devices via a communication arrangement to a gameplay experience service server, wherein the one or more devices include computing hardware for executing one or more games software products for implementing the one or more games when executed upon the computing hardware;

recording on the one or more devices a gameplay experience played thereupon including an associated score, the game play experience being recorded as multiple individual data streams, the multiple individual data streams including a game video, a player video game event data, microphone sounds, game sounds, game control game statistics and user interface data and being recorded with temporal information identifying when an event occurred during playing of the game and linking the multiple individual data streams;

identify for sharing selected ones of the multiple individual data streams corresponding to the recorded gameplay experience;

uploading from the one or more devices the shared data streams of the recorded gameplay experience and the associated score to the gameplay experience service server to generate uploaded gameplay experiences;

maintaining a score list corresponding to the uploaded gameplay experiences, and wherein the score list is accessible to the one or more devices for identifying relative gameplay performances of users of the one or more devices;

detecting a request in the gameplay experience service server for a replay of an uploaded gameplay experience on the score list from a requesting device of the one or more devices;

detecting, in the request, a selection of individual ones of the shared individual data streams of the requested gameplay experience to be replayed; and

downloading the selected individual ones of the shared data streams of the requested gameplay experience to the requesting device for replay, the selected data streams including a high score associated with the requested gameplay experience and events of the gameplay performance indicating how the high score was achieved.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the uploaded gameplay experience comprises one or more different data streams, the different data streams recorded in real-time in the one or more devices during playing of games thereupon.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the different data streams generated at the devices are user-editable before being uploaded to the gameplay experience service server.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the score list is accessible via the one or more devices, and the score list includes links for replaying gameplay experiences associated with scores presented on the score list.

12. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the score list is maintained in an Internet web site, and accessible from the devices using browser software in the devices.

13. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the one or more games software products are host games software products into which one or more software components from a GESW API software library have been incorporated.

14. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the one or more devices are wireless enabled devices implemented by way of at least one of: a smart phone, a laptop computer, a personal computer, a pad computer and a tablet computer.

15. A software product recorded on non-transitory machine-readable data storage media, wherein the software product is executable upon computing hardware for implementing a method as claimed in claim 8 .

16. The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the requesting device is configured to integrate a gameplay performance of the requesting device with the requested replay of the uploaded gameplay experience to generate a composite video for uploading to the gameplay experience service arrangement.

17. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the requesting device is configured to:

integrate a gameplay performance of the requesting device with the requested replay of the uploaded gameplay experience; and

generate a composite video for uploading to the gameplay experience service arrangement.

18. The method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the game statistics include a player reaction time, a percentage of successful shots and a number of fouls.