Game device, game control method and information storage medium

• US 20050070349A1
• Filed: 09/21/2004
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Corporation, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Seitaro
• Granted Patent: US 7,927,203 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/4
• 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 13/46 Computing the game score
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/303 for displaying additional data, e.g. simulating a Head Up Display
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/61 Score computation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball

Abstract

To provide a game device capable of evaluating and displaying progress in a more reliable manner in the case of implementing a soccer game or basketball game etc., there is provided means for determining which team is in possession of the ball, means for acquiring the ball position and the position of the game character in possession of the ball as a possession position, progress variable updating means for executing processing to enable the progress variable to approach a prescribed first fixed value when the first team is in possession of the ball and the ball is within a first attacking preparation region common to part or all of the first region, and executing processing to increase the progress variable when the first team is in possession of the ball and the possession position is outside of the first attacking preparation region, and means for displaying a progress display image according to the progress variable.

Claims

1. A game device with one or a plurality of game characters constituting a first team made to correspond to a first region, one or a plurality of game characters constituting a second team made to correspond to a second region, and a ball being arranged at a field provided with the first region and the second region, with the ball being made to move on the field, for executing a ball game where the ball is caused to move to within goals arranged at the first region or second region corresponding to the opposing team, comprising:

means for storing progress variables expressing extent of superiority of the first team;

means for determining which team is in possession of the ball;

means for acquiring the ball position and the position of the game character in possession of the ball as a possession position;

progress variable updating means for executing processing to enable the progress variable to approach a prescribed first fixed value when the first team is in possession of the ball and the ball is within a first attacking preparation region common to part or all of the first region, and executing processing to increase the progress variable when the first team is in possession of the ball and the possession position is outside of the first attacking preparation region; and

means for displaying according to the progress variable.

2. The game device as disclosed in claim 1, wherein the progress variable updating means executes processing to enable the progress variable to approach a prescribed second fixed value the same as or differing from the first fixed value when the second team is in possession of the ball and the ball is within the second attacking preparation region common to part or all of the first region, and executes processing to reduce the progress variable when the second team is in possession of the ball and the possession position is outside of the second attacking preparation region.

3. The game device as disclosed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein

the game is a soccer game.

4. The game device as disclosed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein

the first attacking preparation region is the same region as the first region.

5. The game device as disclosed in any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein

the second attacking preparation region is the same region as the second region.

6. The game device as disclosed in any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein

the progress variable has a maximum value and a minimum value, and

the first fixed value and the second fixed value are both set to be intermediate values of the maximum value and the minimum value.

7. The game device as disclosed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein

the progress variable updating means contains means for increasing and decreasing the progress variable according to the occurrence of a prescribed event if the prescribed event occurs when the ball is in the possession of the first team or the second team.

8. The game device as disclosed in any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the game device further comprises:

past progress variable storage means for storing a prescribed number of current values for the progress variable every prescribed time; and

comparison display means for displaying images in order of storage to the past progress variable storage means according to each progress condition stored in the past progress variable storage means in comparison manner.

9. A control method for a game for enabling games to function on a game device with one or a plurality of game characters constituting a first team made to correspond to a first region, one or a plurality of game characters constituting a second team made to correspond to a second region, and a ball being arranged at a field provided with the first region and the second region, with the ball being made to move on the field, for executing a ball game where the ball is caused to move to within goals arranged at the first region or second region corresponding to the opposing team, comprising:

a step of storing progress variables expressing extent of superiority of the first team;

a step of determining which team is in possession of the ball;

a step of acquiring the ball position and the position of the game character in possession of the ball as a possession position;

a progress variable updating step of executing processing to enable the progress variable to approach a prescribed first fixed value when the first team is in possession of the ball and the ball is within a first attacking preparation region common to part or all of the first region, and executing processing to increase the progress variable when the first team is in possession of the ball and the possession position is outside of the first attacking preparation region; and

a step of displaying according to the progress variable.

10. Information storage medium readable by a computer and storing a program for causing a computer to function so as to execute a game with one or a plurality of game characters constituting a first team made to correspond to a first region, one or a plurality of game characters constituting a second team made to correspond to a second region, and a ball being arranged at a field provided with the first region and the second region, with the ball being made to move on the field, for executing a ball game where the ball is caused to move to within goals arranged at the first region or second region corresponding to the opposing team, wherein the computer functions as:

means for storing progress variables expressing extent of superiority of the first team;

means for determining which team is in possession of the ball;

means for acquiring the ball position and the position of the game character in possession of the ball as a possession position;

progress variable updating means for executing processing to enable the progress variable to approach a prescribed first fixed value when the first team is in possession of the ball and the ball is within a first attacking preparation region common to part or all of the first region, and executing processing to increase the progress variable when the first team is in possession of the ball and the possession position is outside of the first attacking preparation region; and

means for displaying according to the progress variable.