NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING GAME PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, GAME PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20170354866A1
• Filed: 02/07/2017
• Published: 12/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: MATSUZAKI, Yasuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 10,653,947 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/64 for computing dynamical parameters of game objects, e.g. motion determination or computation of frictional forces for a virtual car
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites

Abstract

A technique for allowing a user to easily understand an operation method of an input apparatus is disclosed. An example of non-transitory storage medium having a game program stored therein is performed by a computer of an information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus is connected to a display apparatus and an input apparatus and performs game processing on the basis of an operation performed by a user. When the game processing is in a predetermined situation, the game program causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to perform outputting an operation model video showing a model of an operation of the input apparatus together with a video related to a content of the game to the display apparatus. In the outputting, an animation video, which indicates an animation occurring in the game when an operation indicated by the operation model video is performed, and the operation model video are displayed side by side.

Claims

1. Anon-transitory storage medium having a game program stored therein, the program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus which is connected to a display apparatus and an input apparatus and performs game processing on the basis of an operation performed by a user to perform:

outputting, when the game processing is in a predetermined situation, an operation model video showing a model of an operation of the input apparatus together with a video related to a content of a game to the display apparatus.

2. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the operation model video is a video obtained by shooting an actual operation performed with the input apparatus.

3. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the operation model video has a frame rate that is high enough to be played smoothly.

4. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the operation model video contains at least a part of a body of an operator of the input apparatus.

5. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein an animation video indicating an animation occurring in the game when the operation indicated by the operation model video is performed is output together with the operation model video.

6. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the operation model video and the animation video are output side by side.

7. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the input apparatus has a motion sensor and/or a touch panel.

8. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the input apparatus has two controllers.

9. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein in the output, the operation model video starts to be output when a new operation is ready to be performed in accordance with a progress of the game.

10. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1 causing the computer of the information processing apparatus to perform controlling an object in the game according to an operation with the input apparatus performed by user and outputting a result thereof to the display apparatus,

wherein the output of the operation model video is started when the object enters into a predetermined range in a virtual space.

11. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1 causing the computer of the information processing apparatus to perform counting a time from when the operation model video starts to be output,

wherein the output of the operation model video is terminated when a time counting result reaches a predetermined time.

12. An information processing apparatus connected to a display apparatus and an input apparatus and performing game processing on the basis of an operation performed by a user, the information processing apparatus comprising:

an output unit outputting, when the game processing is in a predetermined situation, an operation model video showing a model of an operation of the input apparatus together with a video related to a content of the game to the display apparatus.

13. An information processing system comprising:

a display apparatus;

an input apparatus; and

an information processing apparatus performing game processing on the basis of an operation performed by a user, wherein

the information processing apparatus outputs, when the game processing is in a predetermined situation, an operation model video showing a model of an operation of the input apparatus together with a video related to a content of the game to the display apparatus.

14. A game processing method for performing game processing on the basis of an operation performed by a user with an information processing apparatus made by connecting a display apparatus and an input apparatus, the game processing method comprising:

outputting, when the game processing is in a predetermined situation, an operation model video showing a model of an operation of the input apparatus together with a video related to a content of the game to the display apparatus.