JP2007111319A - Game control method, program and game apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an art materializing a game apparatus having a high entertainment property. <P>SOLUTION: In this game apparatus 10, a control part 40 controls the progress of a roll-playing game. An item control part 46 stores items obtained by a player's character in a parameter retaining part 60. A recipe retaining part 62 retains recipe information indicating items of materials necessary for composing an item. A material analysis part 44 receives an analysis request of the materials of the item, reads the recipe information of the item from the recipe retaining part 62 and presents it on a display device 68. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a game control technique, and more particularly to a game control program, a game control method, and a game apparatus for controlling a role playing game (RPG) in which a player operates a player's character.

  In RPG, generally, when a player's character operated by a player is exploring a game field, various items are acquired, and those items are used to perform battles and various events.

There is also an RPG provided with a function capable of synthesizing weapons and armor owned by the player's character to generate new weapons and armor. The present inventor has further developed such a game system, and has come up with a more entertaining game system.
The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a technique for realizing a game device with higher entertainment.

  In order to solve the above problems, a game control program according to an aspect of the present invention stores and manages a function for controlling the progress of a role playing game and items owned by a player's character in the role playing game in an item holding unit. And a function to read and present recipe information indicating an item of a material necessary for synthesizing the item when receiving a request for analyzing the item from the player, and to present the information to the computer. It is characterized by.

  It should be noted that any combination of the above-described constituent elements and a representation of the present invention converted between a method, an apparatus, a system, etc. are also effective as an aspect of the present invention.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a technique for realizing a game device with higher entertainment.

  The game device according to the present embodiment realizes a role-playing game in which a player character (PC) operated by a player explores a game field (map). In the present embodiment, the player is provided with a function of combining a plurality of items to generate another item. Conversely, the player is given a function of analyzing items of materials necessary to synthesize a certain item. When a player acquires an item with a PC, the player analyzes the item of the material necessary to synthesize the item, so that even if the item is not available, By obtaining and synthesizing, the item can be created.

  FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a game apparatus 10 according to the embodiment. The game apparatus 10 includes a controller 20, an input unit 30, a control unit 40, a parameter holding unit 60, a recipe holding unit 62, an image processing unit 66, and a display device 68. In terms of hardware components, these configurations are realized by a CPU of a computer, a memory, a program loaded in the memory, and the like, but here, functional blocks realized by their cooperation are illustrated. Accordingly, those skilled in the art will understand that these functional blocks can be realized in various forms by hardware only, software only, or a combination thereof.

  The input unit 30 receives a control signal input from the controller 20 operated by the player. The control unit 40 executes the game program based on an instruction from the user received by the input unit 30, and controls the progress of the role playing game while managing the progress of the event in the game scenario using a flag or the like. The parameter holding unit 60 includes character attributes such as a character name, type, level, position, line-of-sight direction, viewing angle, field-of-view range, moving direction, moving speed, HP indicating the character's physical strength, and weapons and items owned by the character. Holds the parameter that represents. When the character forms a group composed of a plurality of members, information such as the name of the group and the members is also stored in the parameter holding unit 60. The image processing unit 66 generates a game screen controlled by the control unit 40 and causes the display device 68 to display the game screen.

  The recipe holding unit 62 holds recipe information indicating items of materials necessary for combining items. FIG. 2 shows an example of internal data of the recipe holding unit 62. The recipe holding unit 62 is provided with an item column 80 and a material item column 82. For example, recipe information indicating that the item “hero's sword” is generated by combining the item “iron sword” and the item “hero's stone” is stored. The item “Brave Stone” can be further synthesized from items of materials “Stone”, “Gold Powder”, and “Water of Life”. In this way, some items are generated by a multi-step synthesis.

  The item management unit 46 manages items owned by the PC and its fellow characters. Hereinafter, when a PC forms a party with friends, the characters including the friends are also called PCs. Items are acquired by the PC picking up while moving in the game field, winning battles with enemy characters, making an event successful, or purchasing at a store in the city of the game field. And stored in a parameter holding unit 60 which is an example of an item holding unit. When the item management unit 46 receives a use request for an item from a player in a battle with a game field or an enemy character, the item management unit 46 notifies the control unit 40 of the use of the item, and if the item is a consumable item. The item is deleted from the parameter holding unit 60. When an expiration date, a lifetime, or the like is set for the item, the item management unit 46 manages the item expiration date, and deletes an item whose expiration date has passed from the parameter holding unit 60. For example, hit points may be set for weapons. In this case, the item management unit 46 adds the hit points that the weapon has taken from the enemy character, and determines that the weapon has reached the end of its life when the accumulated value exceeds the hit points set for the weapon. Delete from the holding unit 60. Moreover, you may set the upper limit of the frequency | count of use to a weapon or an item. In this case, the item management unit 46 counts the number of times the weapon or item is used, and deletes the weapon or item from the parameter holding unit 60 when the usage number reaches the upper limit value, assuming that the weapon or item has reached the end of its life.

  The item synthesizing unit 42 provides a player with a function of synthesizing a plurality of items to generate another item. In this embodiment, an item for synthesizing items is prepared, and when the PC owns the item for compositing, the item using the compositing item is used at an arbitrary place on the game field. Can be synthesized. When the item composition unit 42 receives designation of an item to be composed from among the items owned by the PC, the item composition unit 42 refers to the recipe holding unit 62 and is synthesized by a combination of designated material items. Is identified. If there is no recipe information corresponding to the specified combination of material items, the items are not combined.

  When the item synthesis unit 42 identifies an item to be synthesized from the designated material item, the item synthesis unit 42 deletes the item designated as the material from the parameter holding unit 60 and determines the success or failure of the synthesis. If it is determined that the composition is successful, the item generated by the composition is stored in the parameter holding unit 60. If it is determined that the composition has failed, a message to that effect is displayed on the display device 68.

  The success probability of combining items may be determined according to the item attributes. For example, if you specify attributes such as “water”, “fire”, and “soil” for an item, and the attributes such as the place, time, and character that were combined are the same as the attributes of the item to be combined The success probability may be set high. The success probability may be set according to the PC level. For example, when the PC level is low, an item with a high level may not be combined. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the progress of the game from being improperly facilitated by synthesizing powerful weapons at an early stage of the game, and to maintain the game balance appropriately. In addition, when an item having an attribute opposite to that of the character is synthesized in a time zone in which an attribute indicating disorder is set during the time progress in the game, an item different from the normal recipe is synthesized. You may do it. For example, when a character having the “water” attribute tries to synthesize an item having the “fire” attribute, an item that cannot be obtained normally may be synthesized.

  When the material analysis unit 44 receives an item analysis request from the player, the material analysis unit 44 reads recipe information indicating an item of a material necessary for synthesizing the item from the recipe holding unit 62 and presents it on the display device 68. In the present embodiment, a store called “analyzer” is provided in the town of the game field, and when the PC stops by the analyzer, it is possible to request the analysis of the item. When the analyst receives an item to be analyzed from the PC, it provides recipe information of the item, disassembles the analyzed item into material items, and requests at least one of the disassembled material items as compensation. . The item to be handed over to the analysis shop as a price may be selected by the player, or the material analysis unit 44 may automatically select the item. In the case of causing the player to select, the material analysis unit 44 may present the items already owned by the PC among the decomposed material items in an identifiable manner, and may accept a selection instruction from the player. Thereby, the player can identify an item with a spare, for example, can leave an item without a spare and pass an item with a spare to the analysis shop. The analysis shop returns the remaining items excluding the items to be paid to the PC. The material analysis unit 44 deletes the analyzed item from the parameter holding unit 60, and stores, in the parameter holding unit 60, the remainder of the material item obtained by disassembling the item, excluding items handed over to the analysis shop as compensation. As a result, instead of losing the analyzed item, the PC obtains the remaining items of the material of the item, excluding the items handed over to the analysis shop as compensation. The price given to the analyst may be a parameter such as money. In this case, the material analysis unit 44 deletes the analyzed item from the parameter holding unit 60, stores the material item in the parameter holding unit 60 instead, and reduces parameters such as money to be paid for the analysis. The analyzed item may be left in the parameter holding unit 60 without being disassembled. The analyzed recipe is then presented on the display device 68 in response to a reference request from the player.

  As described above, by analyzing the recipe of the item, the player can obtain a desired item by synthesis if the item of the material is obtained. For example, if the recipe of consumables is analyzed in advance, even if it is lost using that item, there is no need to return to the store in the city and purchase it. Can be synthesized from In addition, by analyzing the recipe before the life of the weapon or the like is exhausted, the same weapon can be obtained by synthesis again.

  In the game field, item recipes may be available. For example, a powerful weapon recipe may be dropped on the game field so that the PC can pick up the recipe and synthesize the weapon. In this manner, not only items on the game field can be picked up, but also recipes can be picked up and synthesized by the player, thereby providing unprecedented game characteristics.

  The present invention has been described based on the embodiments. This embodiment is an exemplification, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications can be made to combinations of the respective constituent elements and processing processes, and such modifications are also within the scope of the present invention. is there.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the game device which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the internal data of a recipe holding | maintenance part.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Game device, 20 Controller, 30 Input part, 40 Control part, 42 Item composition part, 44 Material analysis part, 46 Item management part, 60 Parameter holding part, 62 Recipe holding part, 66 Image processing part, 68 Display apparatus.

Claims (6)

The ability to control the progress of the role-playing game,
A function of storing and managing items owned by the player's character in an item holding unit in the role playing game;
When receiving a request for analysis of an item from a player, a function for reading and presenting recipe information indicating an item of a material necessary for synthesizing the item from the recipe holding unit,
A program characterized by causing a computer to realize the above.   The function of presenting the recipe information, when receiving an analysis request for an item owned by the player's character stored in the item holding unit, deletes the analyzed item from the item holding unit and disassembles the item. The program according to claim 1, wherein the remaining items except for at least one of the items are stored in the item holding unit. A computer can further realize the function of generating another item by combining multiple items,
The function of synthesizing the items can be executed at any place in the game field of the role playing game,
The program according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the function of presenting the recipe information can be executed at a specific place in the game field. The ability to control the progress of the role-playing game,
A function of storing and managing items owned by the player's character in an item holding unit in the role playing game;
When receiving a request for analysis of an item from a player, a function for reading and presenting recipe information indicating an item of a material necessary for synthesizing the item from the recipe holding unit,
The computer-readable recording medium which recorded the program which makes a computer implement | achieve. Controlling the progress of the role playing game;
Storing and managing items owned by the player's character in an item holding unit in the role playing game;
When receiving an item analysis request from a player, reading recipe information indicating an item of a material necessary for synthesizing the item from the recipe holding unit, and presenting the recipe information;
A game control method comprising: A control unit for controlling the progress of the role playing game;
An item management unit that stores and manages items owned by the player's character in the item holding unit in the role playing game;
When receiving an item analysis request from a player, a material analysis unit that reads and presents recipe information indicating an item of a material necessary for synthesizing the item from the recipe holding unit,
A game apparatus comprising:

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