Method of miving piece in a networked computer game

• US 20070032299A1
• Filed: 08/08/2005
• Published: 02/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lager Interactive Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Lager Interactive Incorporated
• Inventors: Chen, Tseng, Hsiao, Yen
• Application Number:
  US11/198,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20070032299A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• 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 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/358 Adapting the game course according to the network or server load, e.g. for reducing latency due to different connection speeds between clients
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/577 using determination of contact between game characters or objects, e.g. to avoid collision between virtual racing cars
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/643 by determining the impact between objects, e.g. collision detection

Abstract

Provided is a method of moving piece in a networked computer game played between a server and a client wherein at the server a checkerboard coordinate of low resolution and a fine coordinate of high resolution is used, and an object in a virtual three-dimensional space is represented in the checkerboard coordinate; at a three-dimensional piece of the computer game, both the checkerboard coordinate and the fine coordinate are used wherein an approximate location and blocking determination of the piece are represented and recorded by the checkerboard coordinate; and at the client, a vector is used for representing a piece movement, and an attack distance of the piece is represented in the fine coordinate. The method can significantly decrease calculation times of the server and thus the computer game is more smooth.

Claims

1. In a networked computer game played between a server and a client wherein at the server a checkerboard coordinate of low resolution and a fine coordinate of high resolution is used, and an object in a virtual three-dimensional space is represented in the checkerboard coordinate;

at a three-dimensional piece of the computer game, both the checkerboard coordinate and the fine coordinate are used wherein an approximate location and blocking determination of the piece are represented and recorded by the checkerboard coordinate; and

at the client, a vector is used for representing a piece movement, and an attack distance of the piece is represented in the fine coordinate, a method of moving the piece in the computer game, comprising;

(a) at the client receiving location data sent from the server;

(b) initializing the piece to cause the piece to return to an initial point at start of the computer game or a previous stop point by employing the location data;

(c) calculating a precise location based on direction and speed of the piece being moved;

(d) locating a cube corresponding to the precise location;

(e) determining whether the piece is allowed to enter the cube or not;

(f) in response to the determination in the step (e) being positive moving the piece to the precise location;

(g) at the client sending data about the precise location and the cube to the server;

(h) determining whether the cube is legal or not;

(i) in response to the determination in the step (h) being positive at the server sending data about the precise location to other clients;

(j) in response to the determination in the step (e) being negative at the server moving the piece to a central point of a legal cube and informing the client to modify the precise location of the piece prior to looping back to the step (g);

(k) in response to the determination in the step (e) being negative serving the cube as an obstacle cube;

(I) causing the piece to move toward an X-axis direction along an edge of the obstacle cube and calculating a first new location after the movement;

(m) determining whether the cube corresponding to the first new location is a cube that is allowed to enter or not;

(n) in response to the determination in the step (m) being positive looping back to the step (f);

(o) causing the piece to move toward an Y-axis direction along an edge of the obstacle cube and calculating a second new location after the movement;

(p) determining whether the cube corresponding to the second new location is a cube that is allowed to enter or not;

(q) in response to the determination in the step (p) being positive looping back to the step (f); and

(r) in response to the determination in the step (p) being negative causing the piece to stop prior to looping back to the step (a).