GAME DEVICE, GAME DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20120122580A1
• Filed: 10/31/2011
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Asami, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US13/285,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20120122580A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/46 Computing the game score
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/814 Musical performances, e.g. by evaluating the player's ability to follow a notation
• 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 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/61 Score computation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/638 according to the timing of operation or a time limit
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8047 Music games

Abstract

A game device includes a memory unit, a display unit, a detecting unit, and a noticing unit. The memory unit stores plural pieces of task information each indicating a timing at which a player should give an operation and a position where the operation should be given. The display unit displays each stored task information in the screen. The detecting unit detects a position where the player gives an operation. The noticing unit gives a notice to the player when the detected position where the player gives an operation does not match any one of the positions indicated in the plural pieces of task information, and prompts the player not to operate the position that should not have been be operated.

Claims

1. A game device comprising:

a memory unit that stores a plurality of data of task information each indicating a timing at which a player should give an operation and a position where the operation should be given;

a display unit that displays each of the plurality of data of stored task information on a screen at least at the timing indicated in the task information;

a detecting unit which detects whether or not an operation is given by the player and which detects, when the operation is given, a position where the operation is given; and

a noticing unit that gives a notice to the player when it is detected that the player gives the operation and the detected position where the operation is given does not match any one of the positions indicated by the plurality of data of task information.

2. The game device according to claim 1, wherein the position where the operation should be given is in an operation surface, and further comprising a scoring unit that obtains a score of the player based on whether or not it is detected that the player gives the operation at the timing indicated by the task information and on whether or not the detected position where the operation is given matches a position indicated in the task information.

3. The game device according to claim 1, wherein when it is detected that the player gives an operation in a time period other than the timing indicated by the task information and the detected position where the operation is given does not match any one of the positions indicated in the plurality of data of task information, the noticing unit presents notice information to the player in order to give the notice to the player, the notice information corresponding to the detected position.

4. The game device according to claim 3, wherein the noticing unit presents the notice information to the player in order to give the notice to the player, the notice information corresponding to a relative positional relationship between the detected position and a position which is indicated by a most recent task information which has already past as indicated by the timing.

5. The game device according to claim 3, wherein when the detected position and the position which is indicated by the most recent task information which has already past as indicate by the timing

(a) adjoin to each other, the noticing unit presents the notice information to the player in order to give the notice to the player, the notice information corresponding to a relative positional relationship of the detected position to the position indicated by the most recent task information, and

(b) do not adjoin to each other, the noticing unit presents the notice information to the player in order to give the notice to the player, the notice information corresponding to the detected position.

6. The game device according to claim 5, wherein when a number of positions which adjoin to the detected position, is indicated by the most recent task information which has already past as indicated by the timing is a plural number, the noticing unit selects any one of the positions, and presents the notice information to the player in order to give the notice to the player, the notice information corresponding to the relative positional relationship of the detected position to the selected position.

7. The game device according to claim 1, wherein the noticing unit displays the notice information on the screen in order to give the notice to the player.

8. The game device according to claim 2, wherein

the operation surface is provided with a plurality of detectors which are disposed on the operation surface and which detect a depression given by the player,

the positions indicated by the plurality of data of task information are all any positions of the plurality of detectors,

the positions of the plurality of detectors include positions which are not the positions indicated by the plurality of data of task information, and

when any one of the plurality of detectors is depressed, the detecting unit detects a depressed timing and the position of the depressed detector as the timing at which the operation is given and the position where the operation is given.

9. The game device according to claim 2, wherein

the operation surface is a touch panel that detects a depression given by the player, and

the detecting unit detects a timing at which the depression is given to the touch panel and a position where the depression is given as the timing at which the operation is given and the position where the operation is given.

10. A control method for a game device including a memory unit to store a plurality of data of task information each indicating a timing at which a player should give an operation and a position where the operation should be given, the method comprising:

displaying each of the plurality of data of stored task information on a screen at least at the timing indicated in the task information;

detecting whether or not an operation is given by the player and also to detect, when the operation is given, a position where the operation is given; and

giving a notice to the player when it is detected that the player gives the operation and the detected position where the operation is given does not match any one of the positions indicated by the plurality of data of task information.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable information recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as:

a memory unit that stores a plurality of data of task information each indicating a timing at which a player should give an operation and a position where the operation should be given;

a display unit that displays each of the plurality of data of stored task information on a screen at least at the timing indicated in the task information;

a detecting unit which detects whether or not an operation is given by the player and which detects, when the operation is given, a position where the operation is given; and

a noticing unit that gives a notice to the player when it is detected that the player gives the operation and the detected position where the operation is given does not match any one of the positions indicated by the plurality of data of task information.