GAME APPARATUS, GAME CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120058825A1
• Filed: 08/31/2011
• Published: 03/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Takehiro, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US13/222,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20120058825A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/493 Resuming a game, e.g. after pausing, malfunction or power failure
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/537 using indicators, e.g. showing the condition of a game character on screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/803 Driving vehicles or craft, e.g. cars, airplanes, ships, robots or tanks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/636 involving process of starting or resuming a game

Abstract

The present invention provides a game apparatus suitable for pausing and resuming a game by use of a touch panel. A game apparatus has a touch detection part, a display part, and a pause part. The touch detection part detects the touch of the user on the screen. The display part displays a pause command button at a position different from the initial touch position on the screen so long as a touch is detected by the touch detection part. The pause part pauses the game when the touch detection part detects touch to the pause command button.

Claims

1. A game apparatus capable of pausing and resuming the progress of a game, the apparatus comprising:

a touch detection part detecting a touch of a user on a screen;

a display part displaying a pause command button at a position different from the initial touch position on the screen while a touch is detected by the touch detection part; and

a pause part pausing the game when a touch of the pause command button is detected by the touch detection part.

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

a tilt detection part detecting the tilt of the game apparatus;

a storage part storing the tilt of the game apparatus that is detected by the tilt detection part when the game is paused; and

a resume part resuming the game when the tilt detected by the tilt detection part while the game is paused is equal to the tilt stored in the storage part.

3. The game apparatus according to claim 2, wherein while the game is paused

the display part displays a fixed symbol fixed on the screen of the game apparatus and a movable symbol moving according to the tilt on the screen of the game apparatus, and

displays the movable symbol over the fixed symbol when the tilt detected by the tilt detection part while the game is paused is equal to the tilt stored in the storage part.

4. The game apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the resume part resumes the game when the movable symbol is placed over the fixed symbol for a predetermined period of time.

5. The game apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display part changes the first display position of the pause command button on the screen according to the tilt detected by the tilt detection part.

6. The game apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display part moves the display position of the pause command button on the screen according to the tilt detected by the tilt detection part.

7. The game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display part displays the pause command button so as to approach the initial touch position over a predetermined period of time while the screen is being touched.

8. A game control method executed by a game apparatus capable of pausing and resuming the progress of a game, wherein

the game apparatus comprises:

a touch detection part;

a display part; and

a pause part, and

the game control method comprises;

a detection step in which the touch detection part detects a touch of a user on a screen;

a display step in which the display part displays a pause command button at a position different from the initial touch position on the screen while a touch is detected by the touch detection part; and

a pause step in which the pause part pauses the game when a touch of the pause command button is detected by the touch detection part.

9. A computer-readable non-transitory information recording medium recording a program allowing a computer to function as a game apparatus that is capable of pausing and resuming the progress of a game, the program allowing the computer to function as:

a touch detection part detecting a touch of a user on a screen;

a display part displaying a pause command button at a position different from the initial touch position on the screen while a touch is detected by the touch detection part; and

a pause part pausing the game when a touch of the pause command button is detected by the touch detection part.