30 results about "Video game design" patented technology

A system making use of video games and data communications external to video games is used to provide advertisements, prizes and other benefits to gamers. The prizes relate to either of real world products and services as well as content for use within the video game environment. During a video game session an advertisement is provided to the gamer. When the gamer interacts with the advertisement the video game software acts to facilitate a transaction between the gamer and the advertiser.

A video game device allows a game player to set a degree of difficulty of a technique to be performed by a play character by continuously hitting a pair of buttons in a controller. A command guiding unit guides the input of a command which causes the play character to perform a technique corresponding to the set degree of difficulty, and a stick-shaped controller allows the game player to input commands in accordance with the guide given by the command guiding unit. Upon completion of the performance of the technique by the play character, an evaluating unit evaluates the technique performed in accordance with the commands inputted by the game player.

A video game device in which a game screen displayed on a monitor is controlled by operating an operation unit, the video game device comprises a character display control unit for displaying a player character in such a manner as to be rotatable together with a throwing object character and making such a display that the throwing object character is thrown in a specified direction by the player character when the operation unit is operated at a specified timing, and a guide display control unit for setting a guide display area in a partial area of the game screens, displaying a throwing mark in the guide display area which mark moves in response to a rotation of the throwing object character, and displaying an area mark specifying a throwing area of the throwing object character in association with the guide display area.

The player gives a change in the input through a touch operation to a character pattern P2 displayed on a second display screen 12a covered by a touch panel. The character pattern P2 is associated with a player character P1 displayed on a first display screen 11a, and is displayed on a larger scale than the player character P1. The player character P1 is moved according to the change in the input. Thus, a video game is provided that is played on a dual-screen video game device with a novel operation in which the player can accurately specify an intended position.

Displayed on a first LCD 11 are a “fire” planet 40a, a “wood” planet 40b; an “earth” planet 40c, a “wind” planet 40d and a “water” planet 40e, each traveling along an orbit by a unique orbital period. While an attribute symbol is traveling through an active zone that is associated with the attribute symbol, the status of the attribute represented by the attribute symbol is active. An attribute being active affects the space attribute, which is the attribute of a particular space in the game world. The space attribute affects the ability parameters of characters of the same attribute. Thus, it is possible to enrich the strategic aspect of a video game using characters' attributes.

To reflect a player's degree of skill in a battle between a player character and an enemy character, and increase a strategic element. In the event that a player selects magic as an action of a player character in a battle between a player character and an enemy character, a puzzle battle is started. In the puzzle battle, a magic army (a block frame) is displayed on a display device in accordance with a kind of magic selected, the player moves or rotates a block falling from above the display device by operating an input device, stops it in a desired position, and fills the magic army. In the event that all squares of the magic army are filled with the blocks before a time elapsing from a start of the puzzle battle, displayed on an elapsed time gauge, reaches a prescribed time, the magic selected by the player is unleashed, and inflicts damage on the enemy character. An effectiveness of the magic depends on an overlapping, and a protrusion from the magic army, of the blocks.

A racing game in which a player moving object controlled by a human player and a plurality of non-player moving objects automatically controlled based on a predetermined algorithm race together on a course in a virtual space is provided, wherein: different target places are set for the plurality of non-player moving objects; a driving performance value preset for each non-player moving object is changed according to the target place thereof; and each non-player moving object is automatically controlled according to the changed driving performance value thereof. Thus, it is possible to provide a thrilling racing game.

A video game program includes a terminology storing function, a first running commentary function, a running commentary interrupting function, a second running commentary function, a running commentary returning function, and a running commentary continuing function. In the video game implemented with this program, if specific events occur while the video game is in progress and the play-by-play or commentary is interrupted, the system returns from the play-by-play or commentary related to the specific events to the interrupted play-by-play or commentary, after the play-by-play or commentary has been provided for the specific events, and the interrupted play-by-play or commentary is continued.

Embodiments of the present invention include methods for providing a simulated disc jockey experience in a video game. Embodiments are provided for playing video games on portable electronic devices such as mobile phones and / or portable music players and on conventional video game clients, such as video game consoles, personal computers, and / or handheld video game devices.

A video game device successively obtains game data, which changes according to the state of the input device and is used in the game process. The video game device stores game data obtained at a point in time when the game process is paused. The video game device successively compares current game data with the stored game data, after starting to accept cancellation of the pause. The pause is canceled to resume the game process when a difference between a value of the current game data and a value of the game data stored in the storage means becomes smaller than a predetermined reference.