Fighting game program

• US 20030040364A1
• Filed: 08/08/2002
• Published: 02/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Konami Corporation
• Inventors: Hirata, Hidehiro, Yamamura, Kazuki, Kubo, Yuji, Okamura, Noriaki, Yabe, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US10/214,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20030040364A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/537 using indicators, e.g. showing the condition of a game character on screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/833 Hand-to-hand fighting, e.g. martial arts competition A63F13/837 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/204 the platform being a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/303 for displaying additional data, e.g. simulating a Head Up Display
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/64 for computing dynamical parameters of game objects, e.g. motion determination or computation of frictional forces for a virtual car
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/66 for rendering three dimensional images
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8029 Fighting without shooting
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8088 involving concurrently several players in a non-networked game, e.g. on the same game console

Abstract

In a fighting game in which a plurality of characters controlled by players are displayed on a display to fight with each other, a computer program provides a first mode in which at least three characters are displayed on a first screen to fight with each other, and a second mode in which two characters are displayed on a second screen to perform a man-to-man battle. A current mode of the fighting game is switched between the first mode and the second mode.

Claims

1. A computer program for a fighting game in which a plurality of characters controlled by players are displayed on a display to fight with each other the program comprising the processing of:

providing a first mode in which at least three characters are displayed on a first screen to fight with each other;

providing a second mode in which two characters are displayed on a second screen to perform a man-to-man battle; and

switching a current mode of the fighting game between the first mode and the second mode.

2. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, wherein a transition between the first screen and the second screen is continuously performed in the switching process.

3. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, further comprising the processing of:

detecting an attack input operation performed by one player who is associated with a first character and intends to deliver an attack to a second character; and

judging whether a distance between the first character and the second character in the first screen is a first distance or less,

wherein the attack input operation is made valid only when it is judged the distance between the first character and the second character is the first distance or less.

4. The computer program as set forth in claim 3, further comprising the processing of displaying gages each associated with one character to indicate a level acquired by the one character.

5. The computer program as set forth in claim 4, wherein the gage is represented by a graph having an area corresponding to the acquired level.

6. The computer program as set forth in claim 4, further comprising the processing of incrementing a gage for the first character when the attack input operation is made valid, while decrementing a gage for the second character.

7. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, further comprising the processing of detecting a mode shift input operation performed by one player who is associated with a first character and intends to conduct a man-to-man battle with a second character,

wherein a transition from the first mode to the second mode is performed by the mode shift input operation.

8. The computer program as set forth in claim 7, further comprising the processing of judging whether a distance between the first character and the second character in the first screen is a second distance of less,

wherein the mode shift input operation is made valid to perform the transition, only when it is judged the distance between the first character and the second character is the second distance or less.

9. The computer program as set forth in claim 8, further comprising the processing of:

displaying, on the second screen, a series of operation instructions to be followed by the players associated with the first character and the second character, as the man-to-man battle; and

judging which player first follows the operation instructions.

10. The computer program as set forth in claim 9, further comprising the processing of:

displaying gages respectively associated with the first character and the second character to indicate a level acquired by the respective character; and

incrementing a gage for a character won the man-to-man battle, while decrementing a gage for a character lost the man-to-man battle.

11. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, further comprising the processing of:

detecting a mode return input operation performed by one player who intends to cancel the second mode; and

detecting whether a first time period has elapsed since the second mode was established,

wherein a transition from the second mode to the first mode is performed at least one of when the mode return input operation is detected and when it is detected the first time period has elapsed.

12. The computer program as set forth in claim 11, further comprising the processing of judging whether a distance between a third character and either the first character or the second character in the first screen is a third distance or less, wherein:

the mode return operation is provided as an interruption attack input operation performed by one player who is associated with a first character and intends to deliver an attack to a second character to cancel the second mode; and

the interruption attack input operation is made valid only when it is judged the distance between the third character and either the first character or the second character is the third distance or less.

13. The computer program as set forth in claim 12, further comprising the processing of displaying an image which defend the first character and the second character from the interruption attack operation.

14. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, further comprising the processing of giving an item for enhancing attack prowess of a character who won the man-to-man battle.

15. The computer program as set forth in claim 14, further comprising the processing of:

detecting an item activation input operation performed by a player who intends to activate the item; and

enhancing the attack prowess of a character associated with the player who activated the item.

16. The computer program as set forth in claim 14, wherein the item is plurally stockable by each character.

17. The computer program as set forth in claim 6, further comprising the processing of:

providing at least one decisive attack item which is competitively possessed by the characters;

judging whether a first character possesses the decisive attack item;

judging whether a gage for the first character reaches a predetermined level; and

enabling the first character to deliver a decisive attack to a second character so that the first character wins against the second character.

18. The computer program as set forth in claim 17, further comprising the processing of displaying the decisive attack item on the first screen.

19. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, wherein the second screen is displayed only on display of players who participate the man-to-man battle, while the first screen is displayed on display of another player.

20. The computer program as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least one of the characters is a computer-controlled character.

21. A computer-readable recording medium in which the computer program as set forth in any one of the claims 1 to 20 is recorded.