GAME PROCESSING SERVER APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20140087882A1
• Filed: 07/09/2013
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENA Company Limited
• Original Assignee: DENA Company Limited
• Inventors: Kondo, Kazuhiro, Koyama, Tatsuya, MATSUMOTO, Yoshitaka, Tokumaru, Shonosuke, Okihara, Masataka, Takami, Kosuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,795,060 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/795 for finding other players; for building a team; for providing a buddy list
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5546 using player registration data, e.g. identification, account, preferences, game history
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5566 by matching opponents or finding partners to build a team, e.g. by skill level, geographical area, background, play style
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking

Abstract

A game processing server apparatus providing a game service to a plurality of terminal devices connected with each other via a network, includes a game data generation unit that generates game data in the game service; a player information storing unit that stores player information including registration date data indicating a date when the player operating the terminal device is registered in the game service; and a group allocation unit that determines a player group to which the player belongs based on the registration date data of the player, wherein the game data generation unit generates game data for training, which is different from normal game data, to the player who belongs to the player group.

Claims

1. A game processing server apparatus providing a game service to a plurality of terminal devices connected with each other via a network, comprising:

a game data generation unit that generates game data of a normal game in the game service including a quest or a battle against a boss character and game data of a training game including a quest or a battle against a boss character in which a type of the quest or the battle against a boss or the difficulty in a game is adjusted in order to differentiate the content of the training game from that of the normal game;

a player information storing unit that stores player information including registration date data indicating a date when the player operating the terminal device is registered in the game service; and

a group allocation unit that determines a player group to which the player belongs based on the registration date data of the player,

wherein the game data generation unit generates the game data of the training game to the player who belongs to the player group.

2. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the player group is formed by players who are newly registered in the game service.

3. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the player group is formed by players who are contemporarily registered in the game service.

4. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a number of players who belong to the player group is limited.

5. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of the player groups are formed.

6. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the player group is formed based on a game play history.

7. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein after the player group is once formed, each of the players in the player group is further allocated to another player group based on a game play history of the respective player in the training game.

8. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the game data generation unit displays ranking of each of the players in the player group.

12. The game processing server apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the game data generation unit generates the game data of the normal game after receiving an operation of finishing the training game from the player.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program that causes a computer that composes a game processing server apparatus providing a game service to a plurality of terminal devices connected with each other via a network, to execute functions, comprising:

a game data generation function that generates game data of a normal game in the game service including a quest or a battle against a boss character and game data of a training game including a quest or a battle against a boss character in which a type of the quest or the battle against a boss or the difficulty in a game is adjusted in order to differentiate the content of the training game from that of the normal game;

a player information storing function that stores player information including registration date data indicating a date when the player operating the terminal device is registered in the game service; and

a group allocation function that determined a player group to which the player belongs based on the registration date data of the player,

wherein the game data generation function generates the game data of the training game to the player who belongs to the player group.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9,

wherein the game data generation function generates the game data of the normal game after receiving an operation of finishing the training game from the player.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9,

wherein a number of players who belong to the player group is limited.