Game program

• US 8,187,094 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2005
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SEGA Corporation (SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SEGA Corporation (SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc.)
• Inventors: Sawada, Tsuyoshi, Gotoh, Yasunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Hylinski, Steven J
• Application Number:
  US11/231,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20060116186A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,441 Days
• Field of Search: 463/8, 463/4, 463/36, 463/37
• US Class Current: 463/36
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• 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 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/50 characterized by details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/807 Role playing or strategy games
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2237/32 Ceramic
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2237/407 Copper
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2237/408 Noble metals, e.g. palladium, platina or silver
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2237/62 Forming laminates or joined articles comprising holes, channels or other types of openings
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2237/84 Joining of a first substrate with a second substrate at least partially inside the first substrate, where the bonding area is at the inside of the first substrate, e.g. one tube inside another tube
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 2237/86 Joining of two substrates at their largest surfaces, one surface being complete joined and covered, the other surface not, e.g. a small plate joined at it's largest surface on top of a larger plate
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 37/001 directly with other burned ceramic articles
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 37/008 by means of an interlayer consisting of an organic adhesive, e.g. phenol resin or pitch
• CPC Class Codes: C04B 37/028 by means of an interlayer consisting of an organic adhesive, e.g. phenol resin or pitch
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/10 Ornamental shape of the graduations or the surface of the dial; Attachment of the graduations to the dial cases for special purposes, e.g. ring or button watches G04B37/12; indicating means with special effects G04B45/00
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/103 attached or inlaid numbers attaching of jewels or ornaments G04B47/042; arrangements for attaching bearing jewels, or the like G04D3/04
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/12 Selection of materials for dials or graduations markings
• CPC Class Codes: G04D 3/0048 for dials construction thereof G04B19/10, G04B19/12
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/22 Nonparticulate element embedded or inlaid in substrate and visible
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24331 : including nonapertured component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24612 : Composite web or sheet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24926 : including ceramic, glass, porcelain or quartz layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2495 : Thickness [relative or absolute]

Abstract

In the game program, a computer 100 is operated as means for moving a game character in a game field, based on an input signal inputted from an operation unit 114 and outputting the motions to display means 110. The game program comprises the processing of setting a player character PC which moves, based on an operation signal inputted from an operation unit 114 by a game player and a partner character PT which moves, based on a prescribed movement algorithm, and judging whether or not a first input signal has been inputted from the operation unit, and the processing of restricting a range where the player character PC is movable to a prescribed range with a present position of the partner character PT in the gate field as a reference when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted. The game program permits a player character a player operates and a partner character which supports the player character to make various cooperative motions.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium recorded on a game program for operating a computer as means for moving game characters in a game field, based on input signals inputted from an operation unit and outputting the motions to display means,

a player character directly controllable to move based on input signals a game player inputs from the operation unit, and a partner character which moves based on a prescribed motion algorithm contained in the game program being set,

the game program comprising:

the processing of judging whether or not a first input signal has been inputted from the operational unit to directly move the player character;

the processing of displaying a stopped position of the partner character in the game field when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted; and

the processing of restricting a range where the player character is movable to a prescribed range set in relation to said stopped position, but not restricting a range where the partner character is movable to the prescribed range set with said stopped position, the movement of the player character being independent of the partner character.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

the processing of judging whether or not a second input signal has been inputted after the first input signal was inputted from the operation unit;

the processing of, when it is judged that the second input signal has been inputted, based on a positional relationship between the player character and said position and a kind of a prescribed cooperative motion set corresponding to the second input signal, determining an effective range of the cooperative motion; and

the processing of making the cooperative motion in the determined effective range.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

the processing of determining an effective range of the cooperative motion or a position to be a generation point where the effective range of the cooperative motion or the cooperative motion is generated, based on a positional relationship between the player character and said position and a kind of a prescribed cooperative motion set corresponding to either of the player character and the partner character or a combination of them, when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted; and

the processing of displaying images indicating a kind of the cooperative motion, and the effective range or a generation point at the effective range or the generation point of the cooperative motion.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

the processing of, when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted, stopping a position of the partner character at a position where the partner character was when the first input signal was inputted, thereby to display said position.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

the processing of, when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted, stopping a position of the partner character at a position where the partner character was when the first input signal was inputted, thereby to display said position, and executing a special motion based on information of standby special motions set for the partner character.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

the processing of displaying an icon indicating said position of the partner character in the game field when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium recording recorded on a game program for operating a computer as means for moving game characters in a game field, based on input signals inputted from an operation unit and outputting the motions to display means,

a player character directly controllable to move based on input signals a game player inputs from the operation unit, and a partner character which moves based on a prescribed motion algorithm contained in the game program being set,

the game program comprising:

the processing of judging whether or not a first input signal has been inputted from the operational unit to directly move the player character; and

the processing of restricting a range where the player character is movable to a prescribed range set with a present stopped position of the partner character in the game field as a reference when it is judged that the first input signal has been inputted,

wherein the inputted first signal controls the movements of the player character independent of those corresponding to the partner character.