Social game concerning photograph manipulation for play across distributed devices

摘要

A computer implemented method defines game pieces for play which can complement a natural human tendency to be attracted by people's faces. The game is based on segmenting an image of a user's face under control of a programmed processor, the user's face being captured by the mobile application or provided to it, and then turned into a plurality of segments. A reconstituted image of a face made up of multiple segments from two or more different users for presentation to each respective user in a user interface. A user can select or be selected for a game, which once started has each user revealing a further part of their image to the other until either the whole image of both are revealed and the game is won and they can further communicate. Alternatively a user loses by having their image segment rejected with no further communication available.