METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE SHOOTING GAME

• US 20170368462A1
• Filed: 09/11/2017
• Published: 12/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Original Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Inventors: Jo, Chang Hyun, Lee, Ki Hoon, Lee, Jung Ho, Kim, Sae Rom
• Granted Patent: US 10,589,180 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/837 Shooting of targets

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to providing an online shooting game by a game server communicatively connected to a player terminal. The player terminal may display a virtual online shooting game environment based on information received from the game server. Providing an online shooting game may include: selecting a basic identification range within a virtual online shooting game environment displayed on the player terminal; detecting one or more enemy characters that are within the basic identification range; determining one of the detected one or more enemy characters as an automatic tracking object; and allowing an aiming point to automatically track movement of the automatic tracking object within the basic identification range.

Claims

1. A method of providing an online shooting game performed by a game server communicatively connected to a player terminal, the method comprising:

setting a basic identification range within a virtual online shooting game environment displayed on the player terminal;

allowing an aiming point to track an enemy character that is within the set basic identification range; and

determining, when an attack input is received from the player terminal, a damage inflicted on the enemy character based on at least a relative location of the aiming point with respect to the enemy character within the basic identification range.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the basic identification range is movable within the virtual online shooting game environment in response to a manipulation input from the player terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein setting the basic identification range includes setting one of a plurality of basic identification ranges having different areas, respectively, according to a setting on the player terminal or a selection from the player terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein allowing the aiming point to track the enemy character includes tracking the enemy character on the aiming point according to movement of the enemy character within the basic identification range.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the enemy character is movable within the virtual online shooting game environment, and

wherein allowing the aiming point to track the enemy character includes allowing the aiming point to be moved toward the enemy character according to the movement of the enemy character within the basic identification range.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein allowing the aiming point to track the enemy character includes allowing the aiming point to be mowed toward an obstacle when the enemy character is invisible on the player terminal due to the obstacle in the basic identification range as the enemy character is moved within the basic identification range.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein a movement trajectory of the aiming point is visible on the player terminal.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein allowing the aiming point to be moved toward the enemy character includes changing display of the aiming point based on a location relationship between the aiming point and the enemy character.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising releasing the enemy character when the enemy character is moved out of the basic identification range within the virtual online shooting game environment.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the attack input is a shooting input, and

wherein determining the damage inflicted on the enemy character includes:

determining a damage to be inflicted on the enemy based on the shooting input; and

reflecting the determined damage in the online shooting game.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

calculating loss of firepower to be applied to the player terminal based on the basic identification range and the shooting input; and

reflecting the calculated loss of firepower in the online shooting game.

12. A server configured to execute an online shooting game, the server comprising:

circuitry configured to

set a basic identification range within a virtual online shooting game environment displayed on a player terminal communicatively coupled to the server;

allow an aiming point to track an enemy character that is within the set basic identification range; and

determine, when an attack input is received from the player terminal, a damage inflicted on the enemy character based on at least a relative location of the aiming point with respect to the enemy character within the basic identification range.

13. The server of claim 12, wherein the identification range is movable within the virtual online shooting game environment in response to a manipulation input from the player terminal.

14. The server of claim 13, wherein the circuitry is configured to set one of a plurality of basic identification ranges having different areas, respectively, according to a setting on the player terminal or a setting from the player terminal.

15. The server of claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured to track the enemy character on the aiming point according to movement of the enemy character within the basic identification range.

16. A computer-readable recording medium recording one or more instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method of providing an online shooting game, the method comprising:

setting a basic identification range within a virtual online shooting game environment displayed on a player terminal;

allowing an aiming point to track an enemy character that is within the set basic identification range; and

determining, when an attack input is received from the player terminal, a damage inflicted on the enemy character based on at least a relative location of the aiming point with respect to the enemy character within the basic identification range.

17. computer-readable recording medium of claim 16, wherein the basic identification range is movable within the virtual online shooting game environment in response to a manipulation input from the player terminal.

18. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 16, wherein setting the basic identification range includes setting one of a plurality of basic identification ranges having different areas, respectively, according to a setting on the player terminal or a selection from the player terminal.

19. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 18, wherein allowing the aiming point to track the enemy character includes tracking the enemy character on the aiming point according to movement of the enemy character within the basic identification range.