JP2001334069A - Own character growing system by other player - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an own character growing system by other players capable of achieving growth of characters other than player's own characters for improving interests of a game compared with conventional systems. SOLUTION: Each game machine can access a storing part (a storage means) 4 of a server device 3 through a network 2. Data of characters A to L are stored in the storing part 4. In the case that a game machine (A) 1a of a player A accesses the server device 3 for starting the game, data of the player's own character A are read out. The data of other characters B to L can also be read out and added as company. In the game machine (A) 1a, growth of the data of the player's own character A and growth of other characters, for example the characters G and B, can be achieved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention allows a character appearing in a game machine to be shared with another game machine including its own character, and allows a character other than its own character in a game to grow (foster). It relates to a player's own character growth system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional game, if a player does not play, his or her own character does not grow. Further, even if it grows, it grows only to a state predetermined by the game machine. Therefore, the growth of each character in the game world,
All the characters grow in the same manner, and it is difficult to provide a special characteristic for each player, and there is little enjoyment. Further, for the above-mentioned reasons, there is no change from the previous time when playing next time, so that there are no fun elements such as expectations. In a conventional game, data of another player is used, but the result data is not fed back.

[0003]

The operation of the conventional game system will be considered when the game machine is connected to a network and character data is acquired from the network. FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the above system.
Each of the players A to F accesses the server A35 via the network 37 and accesses the storage unit 36 of the server A35.
Character data can be obtained. Storage unit 3
6 includes player characters A to F used by the player.
And the data of the party characters U to Z preset as members of the party are stored, and the player character and the party character are distinguished from each other. The party members are selected from the party characters U to Z, and the play characters A to F cannot be incorporated as party members. An object of the present invention is to provide a self-character growing system by another player, which can grow a character other than the own character, and can further improve the game characteristics as compared with the related art.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a self-character growing system by another player according to the present invention comprises at least one game device capable of owning its own character, and the state of all characters. Storage means for storing the data of the character, and the game device can acquire character data corresponding to itself in the storage means when starting a game or during a game and acquire data of other characters. Control means for updating the data of the corresponding character in the storage means with the changed data when the state of the other character is changed. The one or more game devices according to the present invention are connected to the storage means via a network, or are connected to the server device via the network by accommodating the storage means,
It is configured to transmit and receive data. Further, the present invention, when acquiring the data of the other character and adding it to the game, checks the condition of the other character to be added at a predetermined place in the game, and when the condition is satisfied, It is configured to add. Further, the condition according to the present invention is that the other character is not used by another game device or is a character owned by a game device trying to use the other character. Further, in the updating of the other character data in the present invention, the data of the other character at the time of acquisition and the changed data are respectively weighted in a predetermined common manner, compared with the weighted values, and the changed data is obtained. Is configured to be performed when the value is large. Also, the present invention, when the changed character data is an experience value and money, convert these into points, and when the item data is an item, calculate the points based on the monetary value to be traded,
It is configured to compare by score.

[0005]

According to the above construction, even when the player himself is not playing a game, the player's own character grows by being allowed to participate in the play of another player. As a result, it is possible to give the player or the like an image or feeling as if the player's own character actually lives in the game world. Then, at the next play, it is possible to give a sense of expectation that the character is growing.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a self-character growth system by another player according to the present invention, in which one or more game machines and storage means are connected by a network. The game machines (A) 1 a to (L) 11 are connectable to the network 2. Each game machine is stored in the storage unit (storage means) of the server device 3 via the network 2
4 can be accessed. The storage unit 4 stores data of characters A to L, and each character is not distinguished between a player character and a party character as in a conventional game. The data is, for example, data indicating the degree of growth of the character, and includes experience values,
Physical strength, magic value, acquired items, etc.

[0007] When the game machine (A) 1a of the player A accesses the server device 3 to start the game, the data of the own character A is read. At the same time, the data of the other characters B to L can be added as read friends. A default value is set for the own character A. When the game machine (A) uses the own character A for the first time, the game machine (A) starts from the data. When another game machine is growing using character A as a friend, the grown data is used. When the other characters B to L are already used by another game machine, data indicating that the characters are in use is added to a part of the character data. Can not. When the own character is used in another game machine, it can be used because it is the person himself.

The game machine (A) 1a stores data of its own character A and data of other characters, for example, characters G and B, in a RAM 19 of its own game machine. This allows the own characters A, G and B to form a party and progress the role playing game. In the game, not only the own character but also the characters G and B can be grown, and if the predetermined condition is satisfied when leaving the group, the characters G and B in the storage unit 4 of the server device 3 are updated. be able to. If not, it will not be updated.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a circuit of each game machine of the own character growing system by another player according to the present invention. Signals input from the cross lever and switch of the pad 7 are connected to the bus 10 via the input / output control device 8 and transmitted to the CPU 14. CP
U14 controls the image processing unit 15 to display a game screen on the monitor 16. Communication RAM 11
Stores a sound-related command from the CPU 14, and is used when the CPU 14 checks the sound status. The sound system circuit 12 generates a sound based on a command from the CPU 14.

The work RAM 17 is a work area used by the CPU 14 for calculation. A ROM cassette 20 for storing a game program can be inserted into the ROM storage section 18. The communication interface 9 is connected to the bus 10 and can communicate with the network 2. In the storage unit 4 of the server device 3 on the network 2, characters to be used in a game program built in the ROM cassette 20 are stored as shown in FIG. 1 (FIG. 3). CPU
Reference numeral 14 has functions of a network communication function unit 14a, a character party formation control unit 14b, and a character party release control unit 14c. The network communication function unit 14a connects to the network 2 via the communication interface 9 at the start of the game or during the game to participate in or release a character from the party.
It has a function to end communication when the release processing ends.

Character party formation control means 14b
Controls whether or not a character in the storage unit 4 is to be added in the guild, and when adding a character other than the own character, determines whether or not conditions for addition are satisfied, and adds the character according to the determination. Is controlled. When releasing a character from a party, the character party release control unit 14c determines whether the original data in the storage unit 4 can be rewritten with the data of the released character.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a basic operation flow of the own character growing system by another player according to the present invention. When the power (not shown) of the game machine is turned on, the CPU 14 reads the game program from the ROM cassette 19 and displays a predetermined game start screen on the monitor 16. Then, when the screen for selecting a character is displayed, the network communication function unit 14 a accesses the server device 3 through the communication interface 9. Character party formation control means 1
4b reads the data of its own character from the storage unit 4 (step (hereinafter referred to as "S") 401). Then
It is determined whether or not one's character has a party (S402). S4 if no party
Move to 04. If a party is formed, the data of the character of the party is read (S403).

Next, a process of adding or removing members in the guild is performed (S404). When adding members in the guild, the process proceeds to the flow operation in FIG. When removing a member from the guild, the process proceeds to the flow operation of FIG. After adding or removing members in FIG. 6 or FIG. 7, you can increase the experience value of your character or other characters, obtain money or items, etc., depending on the battle or event in the game, and obtain the data value of the character. Can be changed (S405). In this way, when the game proceeds and ends, the network communication function unit 14a accesses the server device 3 via the communication interface 9.

Next, the data of the own character in the storage unit 4 is updated (S406). Further, the process proceeds to the writing of the character data of the party. The operation of this step is as shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of the flow shown in each figure will be described. FIG. 6 is for checking whether or not the character to be selected can be added to a friend when selecting one of the other characters (S404 in FIG. 4). When a member is added in the guild, data of a registered character is read (S601, S602). The player selects another character besides his own character. FIG. 9 shows an example of a screen for selecting another character. "Who will be your friend?" Is displayed on the screen.

Character party formation control means 14b
Is, for example, if B is selected as another character,
It is checked whether or not the character B has already been used for another game machine, and it is determined whether or not the condition that the character B has not been used is satisfied (S603, S604). FIG.
Shows a screen example when character B is selected. When "Yes" is pressed, the condition judgment starts. If the condition is not satisfied, the process returns to S603, and if another character is selected, the same check is performed. If the condition is satisfied, the party is added to the party (S606).

FIG. 7 is a diagram for checking whether data of the character to be removed can be registered when any of the other characters is removed from the member (S404 in FIG. 4).
When removing a member from the guild, the character to be removed from the party is selected (S701, S702). When, for example, C is selected as the character to be removed, the character party release control unit 14c checks the data of the character C (S703), and determines whether the condition for removal is satisfied (S704). The judgment target is the data before adding the character C and the data when removing it.
The judgment contents are the contents shown in FIG. If the conditions in the flow of FIG. 8 are satisfied, the data of the registered character is rewritten (S705), and then the character C is removed from the party (S706). If the condition is not satisfied, the character C is removed from the party without rewriting (S706).

FIG. 5 shows a case in which data of a character of a party is written out at the end of the game. Thereafter, it is determined whether or not conditions are satisfied so that a game machine using the character is not disadvantageous. FIG. 4S4
07). Check the character data (S502),
It is determined whether the condition is satisfied (S503). The judgment contents are the contents shown in FIG. FIG.
If the conditions in the flow are satisfied, the data of the registered character is rewritten (S504), and the writing of the data of the character of the party ends. If the condition is not satisfied, the flow shifts to S505, and the writing of data of the character of the party ends.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for checking specific conditions in FIG. 5 and FIG. In the system according to the present invention, since character data of another player is rewritten, a predetermined condition must be satisfied when storing the data unlike the related art. In this example, the data storage condition is satisfied if the sum of the points (weights) is larger than the stored data as the data storage condition. First, the experience value of the character is directly converted into a score (weight) (S801, S80).
2). The rate is, for example, 1 point for 1 experience value. Next, money is also converted into a score (S803). Further, the item or the like is converted into a score in the same manner as money with the price at the time of trading (S804). Then, the total B of the scores is calculated (S805). Similarly, a score A is calculated for the previous data stored (S806). Then, the total B is compared with the score A (S807). If B is larger, the data is updated (S808). If A is larger, data is not updated because character data is at a disadvantage.

In the above-described embodiment, an example has been described in which a server device having storage means for storing its own character and other characters that can share a plurality of game devices via a network is accessed. The storage means may be directly connected to an apparatus for data communication. In addition, the present invention can be similarly implemented even when the storage unit is accommodated in one game device and a plurality of players use one game device.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, the player's own play can grow the character of another player, and at the same time, the player's own character grows by the play of another player. Since the player himself / herself or another player can use the player's character, the player's own character grows by playing by another player even while the player is not playing. Therefore, it is possible to give the player a feeling as if his / her character is actually living in the game world. Then, when the next game is played, an expectation such as "how your own character and other characters are growing" can be expected, and the game characteristics can be improved.

According to the present invention, the following can be realized which has not been possible in the past. There is a “guild system” in which a character is registered as a mercenary in a guild as a game system, and another player incorporates the mercenary as a member of a party. By applying to this system, even when you are not playing, your character grows by participating in the adventure of another player. Then, when the player himself plays, he or she has experience values, money, and items obtained by the adventure of the other player's character together, and can use these.

Using the "guild system", the following can also be performed. (1) Your character lives in the game world! ? The game is played in a party, but a character other than the player's own character is a character that is arbitrarily added to a character created by another player recorded in the recording device. The experience value and money obtained during the play are distributed to the characters added to the party at this time. As a result, even when the player is not playing, the player can have his own character grow by another player, and feel as if the character is actually living in the game world. And your character is growing up the next time you play (maybe?)
The replay rate is improved.

(2) A character created by another person is a non-player character (NPC). By setting a character that is to be a rival at the time of character creation (naturally, a character of another person), the player has a rivalry and competes to raise his own character. That is, the replay rate is high. In addition, characters created by other people besides rivals will be NP during the game
It can appear as C.

(3) I don't know what will happen! ? Since a character created by another person is involved in the game as an NPC, various effects are exerted on the game depending on how the other person plays. Therefore, various developments occur more than in the conventional game, and the player is not bored. (4) Who is popular? (Ranking system) You can tell which character is popular by the number of guild hires. In addition to this, various rankings such as a long ranking can be performed by referring to other characters.
And it can be used in the game. For example, "The more guilds are hired, the higher the rewards will be."

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a self-character growth system by another player according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a circuit of each game machine of the own character growing system by another player according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example in which each player is associated with the game machine of FIG. 1 and the data is stored in a storage means.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a basic operation flow of the own character growth system by another player according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an operation at the time of writing character data of a party;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an operation when a member is added in a guild.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an operation when a member is removed from the guild.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of determining a rewriting condition of character data of a party.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a screen example when a friend is added.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen example of status information of a character to be selected.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a case where a conventional system is connected to a server on a network to be a system having a character on the network.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a, 1b, 1c to 11: Game machines (A) to (L) 2: Network 3: Server device 4: Storage unit (storage means) 7: Pad 8: Input / output control device 9: Communication interface 10: Bus 11 ... Communication RAM 12 ... Sound system circuit 13 ... Speaker circuit 14 ... CPU 14a ... Network communication function unit 14b ... Character party formation control unit 14c ... Character party release control unit 15 ... Image processing unit 16 ... Monitor 17 ... Work RAM 18 ... ROM 19 … RAM

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A game device comprising one or more game devices each capable of owning its own character, and storage means for storing state data of all characters, wherein the game device starts a game, or During the game, character data corresponding to itself in the storage means can be obtained, and data of another character can be obtained and added to the game. When the state of the other character is changed, the changed data is used. A self-character growing system by another player, further comprising control means for updating data of the corresponding character in the storage means. 2. The one or more game devices are connected to the storage device via a network, or the server device accommodates the storage device and connected via a network to transmit and receive data. The self-character growth system by another player according to claim 1. 3. When acquiring the data of the other character and adding the data to the game, a condition of the other character to be added is checked at a predetermined place in the game, and added when the condition is satisfied. 3. The own character growing system by another player according to claim 1, wherein: 4. The condition according to claim 1, wherein the other character is not used by another game device, or the condition is a character owned by a game device trying to use the other character. 3. A self-character growth system by another player according to 3. 5. The updating of other character data in the storage means is performed by weighting the data of the other character and the changed data at the time of acquisition with a predetermined common weight, comparing the weighted values, and 3. The own character growing system by another player according to claim 1, wherein the changing is performed when the changed data is large. 6. The method according to claim 6, wherein when the fluctuated character data is an experience value and money, the data is converted into a score, and when the data is an item, the score is calculated based on a monetary amount to be bought and sold, and compared based on the score. Item 5. A self-character growth system by another player according to Item 5.