Game system, server, and game control program

• US 20060003843A1
• Filed: 06/15/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takahiko, Fujimori, Kenichi, Kogo, Junichi, Hayashi, Kentaro, Hiranoya, Nobukatsu
• Application Number:
  US11/152,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20060003843A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/31 Communication aspects specific to video games, e.g. between several handheld game devices at close range
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/60 Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or game-integrated level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/822 Strategy games; Role-playing games A63F13/825, A63F13/828 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/95 Storage media specially adapted for storing game information, e.g. video game cartridges
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1068 being specially adapted to detect the point of contact of the player on a surface, e.g. floor mat, touch pad
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/206 Game information storage, e.g. cartridges, CD ROM's, DVD's, smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/208 for storing personal settings or data of the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/301 using an additional display connected to the game console, e.g. on the controller
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/402 Communication between platforms, i.e. physical link to protocol
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/407 Data transfer via internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/50 characterized by details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/513 server hierarchy, e.g. local, regional, national or dedicated for different tasks, e.g. authenticating, billing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5546 using player registration data, e.g. identification, account, preferences, game history
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6009 for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/65 for computing the condition of a game character
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/69 Involving elements of the real world in the game world, e.g. measurement in live races, real video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/807 : Role playing or strategy games

Abstract

The game system is capable of executing a game using read objects such as a card, an action figure, and the like. In the game system, the identifying information owned by a read object, for example, a card, a action figure, and the like, itself does not change, a game result of the game performed by using the read object is stored as specific data, for example, historical data showing the history of the game, and the like, and next, on the occasion of executing the game, based on the character specific data, character information is decided, and therefore, according as the game is proceeded, the character information corresponding to the read object changes.

Claims

1. A game system capable of executing a game using read objects portraying characters appearing on the game, each object having a piece of specific identifying information, comprising:

a specific data storage unit for storing character specific data of said characters for each character, each character specific data being associated with said identifying information;

a character specific data setting unit for setting each character specific data based on a game result, and storing the character specific data in said character specific data storage unit;

a reading unit for reading the identifying information from said read object;

an acquiring unit for acquiring player identifying information for specifying a player;

an extracting unit for extracting the character specific data of the character corresponding to the read object from said character specific data storage unit based on the player identifying information acquired by said acquiring unit and the identifying information read by said reading unit;

a character information deciding unit for deciding the character information used in the game based on the character specific data extracted by said extracting unit; and

a game control unit for proceeding said game by using the character information decided by said character information deciding unit.

2. The game system according to claim 1, wherein:

said read object is a character card corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

3. The game system according to claim 1, wherein:

said read object is an action figure having a shape corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

4. The game system according to claim 1, wherein:

said character information deciding unit decides the external appearance structure information for the external appearance structure of the character.

5. A game system capable of executing a game using read objects portraying characters appearing on the game, each object having a piece of specific identifying information, comprising:

a character specific data storage unit for storing the character specific data defined on each character in association with said identifying information for each character;

a character specific data setting unit for setting each character specific data based on a game result and storing it into said character specific data storage unit;

a reading unit for reading the specific identifying information of the read object from said read object;

an extracting unit for extracting the character specific data of the character corresponding to the read object from said character specific data storage unit based on the identifying information read by said reading unit;

an ability value deciding unit for deciding the ability value of the character based on the character specific data extracted by said extracting unit; and

a game control unit for proceeding said game by using the ability value decided by said ability value deciding unit.

6. The game system according to claim 5, wherein:

said read object is a character card corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

7. The game system according to claim 5, wherein:

said read object is an action figure having a shape corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

8. The game system according to claim 5, wherein:

said character information deciding unit decides the external appearance structure information for the external appearance structure of the character.

9. A server connected to at least one set of terminal through a communication line, said server constituting a game system allowing a player to execute a game using read objects by using said terminal, said read objects portraying the characters appearing on the game, and each read object having a piece of specific identifying information, comprising:

a character specific data storage unit for storing each character specific data in association with said corresponding identifying information;

a character specific data setting unit for setting the character specific data based on a game result, and storing it into said character specific data storage unit;

an extracting unit for extracting the character specific data of the character corresponding to the read object from said character specific data storage unit based on the identifying information read from said read object by the reading unit provided in each terminal;

an ability value deciding unit for deciding the ability value of the character based on the character specific data extracted by said extracting unit; and

a game control unit for proceeding said game by using the ability value decided by said ability value deciding unit.

10. The server according to claim 9, wherein:

said read object is a character card corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

11. The server according to claim 9, wherein:

said read object is an action figure having a shape corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

12. The server according to claim 9, wherein:

said character information deciding unit decides the external appearance structure information for the external appearance structure of the character.

13. A program product including a server being connected to at least one set of terminal through a communication line, constituting a game system allowing a player to execute a game using read objects by using said terminal, said read objects portraying the characters appearing on the game, and each read object having a piece of specific identifying information, comprising the steps of:

storing each character specific data in association with said corresponding identifying information;

setting the character specific data based on a game result, and storing the character specific data into a character specific data storage unit;

extracting the character specific data of the character corresponding to the read object from said character specific data storage unit based on the identifying information read from said read object by the reading unit provided in each terminal;

deciding the ability value of the character based on the character specific data extracted at said extracting step; and

proceeding said game by using the ability value decided at deciding step.

14. The program product according to claim 13, wherein:

said read object is a character card corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

15. The program product according to claim 13, wherein:

said read object is an action figure having a shape corresponding to any one of the characters among plural types of characters appearing on the game.

16. The program product according to claim 13, wherein:

the external appearance structure information for the external appearance structure of the character is decided at said deciding step.