GAME CONTROL METHOD, GAME SERVER, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150165318A1
• Filed: 06/21/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Original Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Inventors: Yoshikawa, Tsuyoshi, Tsukihara, Tomohiro, Kato, Norikazu, Yasuhara, Tomoki
• Granted Patent: US 10,076,708 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• 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 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/575 for trading virtual items
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/609 for unlocking hidden game elements, e.g. features, items, levels

Abstract

A game control method, game server, and program can increase variations on methods for acquiring items, increase the predictability of acquisition of an item with a high rarity value or the like, and heighten interest in the game. Included are the steps of presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when receiving, from the communication terminal, a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal, determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when receiving an item acquisition request from the communication terminal, and changing the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.

Claims

1. A game control method comprising the steps of:

(a) presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when receiving, from the communication terminal, a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal;

(b) determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when receiving an item acquisition request from the communication terminal; and

(c) changing the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.

2. The game control method according to claim 1, wherein in step (a), a method for presenting the acquirable item information presented to the communication terminal differs between a first item and a second item, a numerical value of the item type being at least a predetermined value for the first item, and the numerical value of the item type being less than the predetermined value for the second item.

3. The game control method according to claim 2, wherein the acquirable item information for the first item includes identification information or an image for an item.

4. The game control method according to claim 2, wherein in step (a), information on another user who has acquired the first item is presented.

5. The game control method according to claim 4, wherein in step (b), based on a selection request from the communication terminal, one item selected from among items for which count of necessary attempts for acquisition is at most the predetermined value is determined to be the item to provide.

6. A game server comprising:

information presentation means for presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal is received from the communication terminal; and

control means for determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when an item acquisition request is received from the communication terminal, wherein

the control means changes the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.

7. The game server according to claim 6, wherein the information presentation means adopts a different method for presenting the acquirable item information presented to the communication terminal for a first item than for a second item, a numerical value of the item type being at least a predetermined value for the first item, and the numerical value of the item type being less than the predetermined value for the second item.

8. The game server according to claim 7, wherein the acquirable item information for the first item includes identification information or an image for an item.

9. The game server according to claim 7, wherein the information presentation means presents information on another user who has acquired the first item.

10. The game server according to claim 9, wherein based on a selection request from the communication terminal, the control means determines one item selected from among items for which count of necessary attempts for acquisition is at most the predetermined value to be the item to provide.

11. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored thereon instructions to he executed on a computer that functions as a battle game server, the instructions causing the computer to perform the steps of:

(a) presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when receiving, from the communication terminal, a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal;

(b) determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when receiving an item acquisition request from the communication terminal; and

(c) changing the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.

12. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein in step (a), a method for presenting the acquirable item information presented to the communication terminal differs between a first item and a second item, a numerical value of the item type being at least a predetermined value for the first item, and the numerical value of the item type being less than the predetermined value for the second item.

13. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 12, wherein the acquirable item information for the first item includes identification information or an image for an item.

14. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 12, wherein in step (a), information on another user who has acquired the first item is presented.

15. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium according to claim 14, wherein in step (b), based on a selection request from the communication terminal, one item selected from among items for which the count of necessary attempts for acquisition is at most the predetermined value is determined to be the item to provide.