Game system

• US 20060009270A1
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp. (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takahiko, Kogo, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US11/170,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20060009270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/214 for locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads
• 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 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/32 using local area network [LAN] connections
• 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 13/426 involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/537 using indicators, e.g. showing the condition of a game character on screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/822 Strategy games; Role-playing games A63F13/825, A63F13/828 take precedence
• 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 2300/307 for displaying an additional window with a view from the top of the game field, e.g. radar screen
• 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 2300/6623 for animating a group of characters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8029 Fighting without shooting

Abstract

This game system includes a plurality of terminals each of which has a display unit and an input unit, and a server connected to the terminals through communication lines. The game system executes a game performing the fighting between a plurality of characters controlled by the terminals operated by a plurality of players. The game system comprises a position data storage unit storing position data representing the positions of characters disposed in the game area where a plurality of characters operated by each player can be disposed; a position renewal unit renewing the position data stored in the position data storage unit, based on the input operation of each player using by the input unit; a first display control unit displaying a game area image representing the game area where characters are disposed based on the position data stored in the position data storage unit in the first display area owned by the display unit; and a second display control unit displaying the fighting image representing the fighting between the characters in the second display area owned by the display unit when the fighting between the characters is performed in the game area.

Claims

1. A game system including a plurality of terminals each having a display unit and an input unit, and a server connected to the terminals through communication lines, said game system executing a game performing the fighting between a plurality of characters controlled by the terminals operated by a plurality of players, said game system comprising:

a position data storage unit storing position data representing the positions of characters disposed in the game area where a plurality of characters operated by each player can be disposed;

a position renewal unit renewing the position data stored in said position data storage unit, based on the input operation of each player using by said input unit;

a first display control unit displaying a game area image representing the game area where characters are disposed based on the position data stored in said position data storage unit in the first display area owned by said display unit; and

a second display control unit displaying the fighting image representing the fighting between the characters in the second display area owned by said display unit when the fighting between the characters is performed in said game area.

2. The game system according to claim 1, wherein said input unit is a touch panel, which is provided in front of said display unit, which can detect a touch by the player, and when detecting the touch, and which outputs a detection signal showing the touch position, wherein said position renewal unit, in case the touch position shown by the detection signal outputted from said touch panel matches the display position of the character in the game area image displayed in said first display area, renews the position data of the character based on the detection signal.

3. The game system according to claim 1, wherein said display unit is capable of having a plurality of second display areas, wherein said second display control unit, in case the fighting between the characters is performed in plurality in said game area, displays the fighting image representing each fighting in each of plural second display areas.

4. The game system according to claim 1, wherein the characters include an ally character and an enemy character, the ally character can selectively perform any one of plural types of all-out attacks which are different in at least one of the range of the play field which becomes the object of the all-out attack, the form of the all-out attack performed by the ally character, and the damage given to the enemy character.

5. The game system according to claim 4, wherein said input unit accepts an input for designating any one of said plural types of the all-out attacks

6. A game system including a plurality of terminals each having a display unit and an input unit, and a server connected to the terminals through communication lines, said game system executing a game performing the fighting between a plurality of characters including an ally character and an enemy character, controlled by the terminals operated by a plurality of players, said game system comprising:

a position data storage unit storing position data representing the positions of characters disposed in the game area where a plurality of characters operated by each player can be disposed;

a position renewal unit renewing the position data stored in said position data storage unit based on the input operation of each player using said input unit;

a first display control unit displaying a game area image representing the game area where the ally character and the enemy characters are disposed based on the position data stored in said position data storage unit in the first display area owned by said display unit;

a second display control unit displaying the fighting image representing the fighting between the ally character and the enemy characters in the second display area owned by said display unit when the fighting between the ally character and the enemy characters is performed in said game area; and

an attack instruction input unit inputting the instruction to the effect that an ally character attacks against the whole or a part of enemy characters disposed within the predetermined range of said game area based on the input operation of the player using said input unit, wherein;

said first display control unit, when the instruction is inputted by said attach instruction input unit, displays the game area image representing the game area where the ally character and the enemy characters are disposed in said first display area in the aspect where the ally character attacks the whole or a part of the enemy characters disposed within the predetermined range of the game area.

7. The game system according to claim 6, wherein said input unit is a touch panel, which is provided in front of said display unit, which can detect a touch by the player, and when detecting the touch, and which outputs a detection signal showing the touch position, wherein said position renewal unit, in case the touch position shown by the detection signal outputted from said touch panel matches the display position of the character in the game area image displayed in said first display area, renews the position data of the character based on the detection signal.

8. The game system according to claim 6, wherein said display unit is capable of having a plurality of second display areas, wherein said second display control unit, in case the fighting between the characters is performed in plurality in said game area, displays the fighting image representing each fighting in each of plural second display areas.

9. The game system according to claim 6, wherein the ally character can selectively perform any one of plural types of all-out attacks which are different in at least one of the range of the play field which becomes the object of the all-out attack, the form of the all-out attack performed by the ally character, and the damage given to the enemy character.

10. The game system according to claim 9, wherein said input unit accepts an input for designating any one of said plural types of the all-out attacks.