GAME APPARATUS, GAME CHARACTER DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20100197396A1
• Filed: 01/28/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: FUJII, Takahiro, YAMAZAKI, Haruko, TARUMI, Toshiaki, TAMURA, Ryosuke, MARUYAMA, Eri, HARADA, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,834,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• 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 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/85 Providing additional services to players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5553 user representation in the game field, e.g. avatar
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/575 for trading virtual items
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/65 for computing the condition of a game character

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a game apparatus that can display an avatar matched to any kind of games that the avatar participates, without changing clothes or decorations worn by the avatar to new clothes or decorations.

The present invention relates to a game apparatus that can play a plurality of games using a specific player character. The game apparatus includes an item display data specifier that specifies display data of items based on attributes set to the items and a design table where a correspondence relationship between the attributes and the display data of the items is set; a character display data generator that generates display data of the player character based on the specified display data of the items; and a character displayer that displays the player character on a display screen based on the generated display data of the player character.

Claims

1. A game apparatus capable of playing a plurality of games using a specific player character operated by a player, the game apparatus comprising:

an item display data specifier that specifies display data of items possessed or worn by the player character based on attributes set to the items and a design table where a correspondence relationship between the attributes and the display data of the items is set, the design table being different or same for every game;

a character display data generator that generates display data of the player character based on the specified display data of the items; and

a character displayer that displays the player character on a display screen based on the generated display data of the player character.

2. The game apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an item displayer that displays the items on the display screen based on the specified display data of the items; and

an item selector that selects items to be possessed or worn by the player character in accordance with an input from the player,

wherein the character display data generator generates the display data of the player character based on the selected display data of the items.

3. The game apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the design table stores the display data of the items when the items possessed or worn by the player character is a specific combination, and

when the items possessed or worn by the player character is the specific combination, the item display data specifier specifies the display data of the items based on the display data of the items when the items is the specific combination.

4. A game character displaying method that is executed in a game apparatus, capable of playing a plurality of games using a specific player character operated by a player, the method comprising:

specifying display data of items possessed or worn by the player character based on attributes set to the items and a design table where a correspondence relationship between the attributes and the display data of the items is set, the design table being different or same for every game;

generating display data of the player character based on the specified display data of the items; and

displaying the player character on a display screen based on the generated display data of the player character.

5. A tangible computer-readable recording medium in which a game program executed by a game apparatus is recorded, the game apparatus capable of playing a plurality of games using a specific player character operated by a player,

the game program comprising:

an item display data specifying code segment that, when executed, specifies display data of items possessed or worn by the player character based on attributes set to the items and a design table where a correspondence relationship between the attributes and the display data of the items is set, the design table being different or same for every game;

a character display data generating code segment that, when executed, generates display data of the player character based on the specified display data of the items; and

a character displaying code segment that, when executed, displays the player character on a display screen based on the generated display data of the player character.