Geographic-based content curation in a multiplayer gaming environment

Abstract

Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for selecting, distributing, and/or consuming content, including but not limited to recorded speech, written productions, images, recorded music, and video recordings. A multiplayer game based on content curation includes information associated with a graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment including a plurality of different locations, a plurality of different compositions, a plurality of user profiles, and a plurality of playlists, each electronically linked to a user profile and specifying at least one composition of a plurality of different compositions, a map representing at least a subset of the plurality of different locations and at least one user icon occupying a location of at least the subset of the plurality of different locations based on associated user location information.

1 . A method for running a multiplayer game for a plurality of users including a first user and a second user based on content curation in a system comprising at least one communication interface for communicating information with a plurality of user devices including a first user device used by the first user and a second user device used by the second user, at least one memory for storing processor-executable instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one communication interface and the at least one memory, the information associated with a graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment including a plurality of different locations and a plurality of different compositions, the method comprising:
 storing, in the at least one memory, a plurality of user profiles to be used in the graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment, each user profile generated from a user profile generation request having associated user location information;   automatically determining the associated user location information for each user profile from at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a Media Access Control (MAC) address, a radio-frequency identification (RFID), a Wi-Fi connection location, a satellite navigation position, and a Cell ID;   storing, in the at least one memory, a plurality of playlists to be shared in the graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment, each playlist generated from a playlist generation request having associated user profile information and associated playlist composition information such that each playlist is electronically linked to a corresponding user profile based on the associated user profile information and specifies at least one composition of a plurality of different compositions based on the associated playlist composition information;   generating, via the at least one processor, a first graphical display including a map representing at least a subset of the plurality of different locations and at least a first user icon associated with the first user, the first user icon occupying a first location of at least the subset of the plurality of different locations based on first associated user location information and electronically linking the first graphical display to a first user profile of the plurality of user profiles and any corresponding playlists of the plurality of playlists based on the first associated user profile information; and   transmitting, via the at least one communication interface, first information associated with the first graphical display to at least the second user device to facilitate rendering of the first graphical display on at least the second user device.