Game system with game screen and guidance operation area

• US 9,132,353 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2013
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENA Company Limited
• Original Assignee: DENA Company Limited
• Inventors: Otomo, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Coburn, Corbett B
• Application Number:
  US14/019,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20150065255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• Field of Search: 463/9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/422 automatically for the purpose of assisting the player, e.g. automatic braking in a driving game
• 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 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/63 by the player, e.g. authoring using a level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/69 by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/825 Fostering virtual characters

Abstract

To reduce labor of a player to search for game content sought by the player. A game program according to the present invention causes a computer to execute: when an operation to designate game content is performed by a player, play event selection processing to select a play event in which the designated game content is obtainable from among a plurality of play events set in advance; game screen generation processing to generate a game screen including a guidance operation area that guides the player to the selected play event; and game progress processing to make a game progress with the guided play event and to make the player play the game when the guidance operation area is operated by the player while the game screen is displayed.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for causing a computer to execute:

while there is displayed a game screen including a game content selection operation area in which each of items of game content is displayed in any one of a first display form indicating that the item of the game content is possessed by a player, a second display form indicating that the item of the game content has not been possessed by the player, and a third display form indicating that the item of the game content is not possessed by the player but has been possessed by the player, play event selection processing not to select a play event in which the item of the game content of the second display form is obtainable when an operation to designate an item of the game content displayed in the second display form has been performed by the player and to select a play event in which the designated item of the game content of the third display form is obtainable from among a plurality of play events set in advance when an operation to designate an item of the game content displayed in the third display form has been performed by the player;

game screen generation processing to generate a game screen including a guidance operation area that guides the player to the selected play event; and

game progress processing to make a game progress with the guided play event and to make the player obtain the item of the game content of the third display form when the guidance operation area is operated by the player while the game screen is displayed.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

while there is displayed the game screen including the game content selection operation area in which each of all items of material game content associated with base game content is displayed in any one of the first display form, the second display form, and the third display form, the play event selection processing does not select a play event in which the item of the material game content of the second display form is obtainable when an operation to designate an item of the material game content displayed in the second display form has been performed by the player and selects a play event in which the designated item of the material game content of the third display form is obtainable from among the plurality of play events set in advance when an operation to designate an item of the material game content displayed in the third display has been performed by the player, and

when the designated item of the material game content of the third display form has been obtained by the player when making the game for causing the player to obtain the item of the material game content of the third display form progress with the guided play event, the game progress processing permits fusion of the obtained item of the material game content of the third display form and the base game content.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, for causing the computer to execute:

when all items of the material game content associated with the base game content have been obtained by the player, game content fusion processing to vary a parameter set to the base game content by performing fusion of the base game content and the all items of the material game content.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the play event selection processing selects a play event in which a probability of obtaining the designated item of the game content is set higher in preference to a play event to which the probability of obtaining the designated item of the game content is set lower, from among a plurality of play events set in advance.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein

the play event selection processing selects a play event in which the designated item of the game content is obtainable from among the plurality of play events based on player information related to the player.

6. An information processing device comprising:

a play event selection unit configured, while there is displayed a game screen including a game content selection operation area in which each of items of game content is displayed in any one of a first display form indicating that the item of the game content is possessed by a player, a second display form indicating that the item of the game content has not been possessed by the player, and a third display form indicating that the item of the game content is not possessed by the player but has been possessed by the player is displayed, not to select a play event in which the item of the game content of the second display form is obtainable when an operation to designate an item of the game content displayed in the second display form has been performed by the player and to select a play event in which the designated item of the game content of the third display form is obtainable from among a plurality of play events set in advance when an operation to designate an item of the game content displayed in the third display form has been performed by the player;

a game screen generation unit configured to generate a game screen including a guidance operation area that guides the player to the selected play event; and

a game progress processing unit configured, when the guidance operation area has been operated by the player while the game screen is displayed, to make a game for causing the item of the material game content of the third display form progress with the guided play event and to make the player play the game.