Game device, method of controlling a game device, and information storage medium

• US 8,235,823 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2010
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Mimura, Ryuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, David L
• Assistant Examiner(s): TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN
• Application Number:
  US12/748,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20100248845A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 463/3, 463/5, 463/7, 463/36, 463/37, 463/43, 273/371, 273/374
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6027 using adaptive systems learning from user actions, e.g. for skill level adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/61 Score computation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball

Abstract

A target output control section causes, after a game has started, a target which a user needs to achieve in the game to be output. A target output standby section holds the target output by the target output control section on standby based on an achievement status for the target.

Claims

1. A game device for executing a game, comprising:

a target output control section for causing, after the game has started, a target which a user needs to achieve in the game to be output, the target output control section comprising,

a section for causing a part of a content of the target to be output; and

a section for causing the whole of the content of the target to be output after the part of the content of the target is output and the game has started; and

a target output standby section for holding the output of the target by the target output control section on standby based on an achievement status of the player for the target,

wherein the target output standby section holds the output of the whole of the content of the target on standby during the play of the game, based on the achievement status of the player for the target.

2. The game device according to claim 1, wherein the target output standby section comprises:

a section for acquiring content stored in a storage storing an achievement status condition in association with each of a plurality of output time candidates, the achievement status condition being a condition regarding the achievement status for the target;

a section for judging, in a case where any one of the plurality of output time candidates has arrived, whether or not the achievement status for the target at the output time candidate satisfies the achievement status condition associated with the output time candidate; and

a section for allowing, in a case where it is judged that the achievement status for the target satisfies the achievement status condition, the target output control section to output the target.

3. The game device according to claim 1, wherein:

the game comprises a game played between one of a first game character and a first game character group, and one of a second game character and a second game character group, the first game character and the first game character group each being an operation subject of the user, the second game character and the second game character group each being an operation subject of one of another user and a computer; and

the game device further comprises a first target changing section for changing the target based on a combination of the one of the first game character and the first game character group, and the one of the second game character and the second game character group.

4. The game device according to claim 1, further comprising a second target changing section for changing the target based on the achievement status for the target after the game has started.

5. A method of controlling a game device comprising a processor and a storage device including computer-readable instructions for executing a game, the method comprising:

a target output control step of causing, by the processor, after the game has started, a target which a user needs to achieve in the game to be output, the target output control step comprising,

causing a part of a content of the target to be output; and

causing the whole of the content of the target to be output after the part of the content of the target is output and the game has started; and

a target output standby step of holding, by the processor, the output of the target by the target output control step on standby based on an achievement status of the player for the target

wherein the target output standby step comprises holding the output of the whole of the content of the target on standby during the play of the game, based on the achievement status of the player for the target.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the target output standby step comprises:

acquiring content stored in a storage storing an achievement status condition in association with each of a plurality of output time candidates, the achievement status condition being a condition regarding the achievement status for the target;

judging, in a case where any one of the plurality of output time candidates has arrived, whether or not the achievement status for the target at the output time candidate satisfies the achievement status condition associated with the output time candidate; and

allowing, in a case where it is judged that the achievement status for the target satisfies the achievement status condition, the target output control step to output the target.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the game comprises a game played between one of a first game character and a first game character group, and one of a second game character and a second game character group, the first game character and the first game character group each being an operation subject of the user, the second game character and the second game character group each being an operation subject of one of another user and a computer; and

the game device changes the target based on a combination of the one of the first game character and the first game character group, and the one of the second game character and the second game character group.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising changing the target based on the achievement status for the target after the game has started.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium storing a program, the program causing a computer to function as a game device for executing a game,

the program further causing the computer to function as:

a target output control section for causing, after the game has started, a target which a user needs to achieve in the game to be output, the target output control section comprising,

a section for causing a part of a content of the target to be output; and

a section for causing the whole of the content of the target to be output after the part of the content of the target is output and the game has started; and

a target output standby section for holding the output of the target by the target output control section on standby based on an achievement status of the player for the target

wherein the target output standby section holds the output of the whole of the content of the target on standby during the play of the game, based on the achievement status of the player for the target.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium of claim 9, wherein the target output standby section comprises:

a section for acquiring content stored in a storage storing an achievement status condition in association with each of a plurality of output time candidates, the achievement status condition being a condition regarding the achievement status for the target;

a section for judging, in a case where any one of the plurality of output time candidates has arrived, whether or not the achievement status for the target at the output time candidate satisfies the achievement status condition associated with the output time candidate; and

a section for allowing, in a case where it is judged that the achievement status for the target satisfies the achievement status condition, the target output control section to output the target.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium of claim 9, wherein:

the game comprises a game played between one of a first game character and a first game character group, and one of a second game character and a second game character group, the first game character and the first game character group each being an operation subject of the user, the second game character and the second game character group each being an operation subject of one of another user and a computer; and

the program further causing the computer to function as a first target changing section for changing the target based on a combination of the one of the first game character and the first game character group, and the one of the second game character and the second game character group.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium of claim 9, wherein the program further causes the computer to function as a second target changing section for changing the target based on the achievement status for the target after the game has started.