Abstract: A game platform manages, on behalf of a game program, platform nodes used to execute game operations, such as physics operations, artificial intelligence operations, and player messaging operations. Via the game platform, the game program can implement relatively sophisticated and complex game operations. The game platform can implement each game operation at a corresponding platform node, wherein the platform node employs associated hardware to execute the game operation. The game platform can distribute the platform nodes at different sets of hardware resources, such as different servers, different hardware accelerators, and the like, and thereby implement more sophisticated game operations than can be implemented by the game program directly. The game platform communicates data between the game program and the platform nodes using a zero-copy transfer technique, thereby transferring data with relatively little latency.

Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for generating a virtual spatial environment comprising a first contextual for a first object and a second contextual for a second object. A zoom level of the virtual spatial environment is determined as exceeding a zoom threshold. A zoom contextual is generated based on an aggregation of the first contextual and the second contextual due at least to the zoom level exceeding the zoom threshold. A display of the first contextual and the second contextual in the virtual spatial environment is replaced with a display of the zoom contextual.