Prompting a player of a dance game
First Claim
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps comprising:
- providing dance video game information including a game play screen to a display, wherein the game play screen includes an avatar that dances during a song and a first icon that displays a representation of a body in at least one pose representing an associated first dance move;
triggering a display of the first icon representing the first dance move in the dance video game for a first time interval during the song;
triggering a display of a second icon representing a second dance move in the dance video game for a second time interval during the song; and
arranging the display of the first icon and the second icon in relation to one another such that the first icon is arranged in the display at a first fixed location representing a current dance move in the song and the second icon is arranged in the display at a second fixed location representing a next dance move in the song.
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Abstract
Presented herein are methods, apparatuses, programs, and systems for prompting a player to perform a series of dance moves. A player is prompted to perform a series of dance moves by providing a timeline comprising at least a first time interval associated with a first dance move, and a second time interval associated with a second dance move; displaying an icon representing the first dance move at a first location on the display for the duration of the first time interval; and displaying an icon representing the second dance move at the first location on the display for the duration of the second time interval, wherein the icon representing the first dance move includes one or more representations of a body and indicates on the one or more representations of the body at least one body part whose position is important during the performance of the first dance move.
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22 Claims
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1. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps comprising:
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providing dance video game information including a game play screen to a display, wherein the game play screen includes an avatar that dances during a song and a first icon that displays a representation of a body in at least one pose representing an associated first dance move; triggering a display of the first icon representing the first dance move in the dance video game for a first time interval during the song; triggering a display of a second icon representing a second dance move in the dance video game for a second time interval during the song; and arranging the display of the first icon and the second icon in relation to one another such that the first icon is arranged in the display at a first fixed location representing a current dance move in the song and the second icon is arranged in the display at a second fixed location representing a next dance move in the song. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method executed on a game console comprising:
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providing to a display from the game console a game play screen in a dance video game comprising a first region, a second region, and a third region; displaying in the first region of the game play screen provided from the game console a first icon representing a first dance move for a first time period associated with the first dance move; translating into the first region from the second region of the game play screen provided from the game console, at the end of the first time period, a second icon depicting a second dance move; displaying in the third region of the game play screen provided from the game console at the end of the first time period the first icon; and displaying in the second region of the game play screen provided from the game console at the end of the first time period a third icon representing a third dance move. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method executed on a game console comprising:
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providing dance video game information including a game play screen to a display from the game console, wherein the game play screen includes an avatar that dances during a song and a first icon that displays a representation of a body in at least one pose representing an associated first dance move; providing in the game play screen a first fixed region representing a current dance move and a second fixed region representing a next dance move; and placing in the first fixed region the first icon and in the second fixed region a second icon representing a second dance move. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions and when executed by a game console performing the steps comprising:
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providing dance video game information including a game play screen to a display, wherein the game play screen includes an avatar that dances during a song and a first icon that displays a representation of a body in at least one pose representing an associated first dance move; triggering a display of the first icon representing the first dance move in the dance video game for a first time interval during the song; triggering a display of a second icon representing a second dance move in the dance video game for a second time interval during the song; arranging the display of the first icon and the second icon in relation to one another such that the first icon represents a current dance move in the song and the second icon represents a next dance move in the song; and translating the first icon and the second icon such that the second icon represents the current dance move in the song and a third icon represents the next dance move in the song. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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