JP6734433B2 - Game device, program and game system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a game device, a program, and a game system, and more particularly to a game device capable of outputting an article related to a game character.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a device that executes a predetermined operation by recognizing a specific item, such as an educational system (Patent Document 1) that outputs a sound corresponding to a design drawn on a card.

In recent years, there is also a game device that outputs a predetermined number of cards with a symbol of a character that can be used in the game for each game play executed by paying the consideration. In such a game device, a plurality of characters are prepared in advance, and most of the players can enjoy not only the game play but also the collection of cards with the symbols of such characters.

JP, 2006-350058, A

In the game device as described above, the desire to collect the cards corresponding to the attractive characters and the player's willingness to capture the game using the collected characters promotes the game play, and eventually leads to the profit of the publisher. ..

However, in recent years, the number of cases where cards are circulated by means such as so-called online auctions is increasing, and some players can collect cards without playing a game, and as a publisher, they lose profit opportunities. There were cases. In addition, when a strong character corresponding to a card obtained by such an unauthorized route is used in the game in this way, the ranking by play scores or the like is occupied by the obtainer, so that the game of another player is played. Publishers may miss out on revenue opportunities as a result.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a game device, a program, and a game system that enable a character corresponding to an article that is legally obtained by a player to be used in a game. To do.

Game apparatus of the present invention provides an article game character is associated, and outputs an article user information is attached indicating at least a particular user in a visible or invisible, the correspondence to the recognized article Information that is used for a user who is involved in the current game play, based on user information attached to each of the plurality of recognized items , which is a game device that executes processing related to a game that uses the identified character. Determining means for determining, and whether or not the character associated with the recognized article can be used in the game based on the user information attached to the article and the user information used for the user related to the current game play. The determining means includes a determining means for determining, and the determining means determines the most user information among the user information attached to the plurality of recognized articles as user information used for the user relating to the current game play, and makes the determination. The means, when determining that the user information attached to the recognized article is the same as the user information used for the user related to the current game play, determines that the character associated with the article can be used. you judgment.

According to the present invention having such a configuration, it is possible to use a character corresponding to an article that is legally obtained by the player in the game.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the game device 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention. The figure which illustrated the card which concerns on the character which can be used in the game concerning Embodiment 1 and 2 of this invention. The figure which showed the example of a screen in the competitive game in the game which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The flowchart which illustrated the determination processing performed in the game device 100 which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. The flowchart which illustrated the determination processing performed in the game device 100 which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. The flowchart which illustrated the determination processing performed in the game device 100 which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention. The figure which illustrated the data structure of various data used in the game which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

[Embodiment 1]
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the embodiment described below uses the character as an example of the game device by recognizing a card that is an article related to the character of the game, and an effect of the character-based competition game depending on the lottery result. An example will be described in which the present invention is applied to a game device that executes a game that proceeds while applying. However, the present invention outputs a product related to a game character, which is provided with user information indicating at least a specific user in a visible or invisible state, and performs a process related to a game using a character corresponding to the product. It is applicable to any executable device.

<<Structure of the game device 100>>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a game device 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

The control unit 101 is, for example, a CPU, and controls the operation of each block included in the game device 100. Specifically, the control unit 101 controls the operation of each block by reading out the operation program of each block stored in the recording medium 102, loading it in the memory 103 and executing it.

The recording medium 102 is a recording device such as a non-volatile memory or an HDD that can hold data permanently. The recording medium 102 records, in addition to the operation program of each block included in the game device 100, information such as parameters necessary for the operation of each block and various graphics data used in the game executed by the game device 100. To do. The memory 103 is a storage device used for temporary data storage, such as a volatile memory. The memory 103 is used not only as an expansion area for the operation program of each block, but also as a storage area for temporarily storing the data output in the operation of each block.

The character DB 104 is a database that manages information on characters that appear in the game executed in the game device 100 of this embodiment. The data managed for one character may have a data structure as shown in FIG. 7A, for example. In the example of FIG. 7A, in association with the character ID 701 that is the identification information of the character, the ability information 702 indicating the character-specific ability parameters such as physical strength and attack power, which are predetermined for the character, the attack technique (enemy) Command information 703 indicating parameters relating to commands that can be instructed to the character such as giving a detrimental effect such as damage or inaction to the character) or recovery technique (providing an effect to recover the damage of the teammate character), and Class information 704 indicating a predetermined class to which the character belongs is managed. These pieces of information are information uniquely determined for each character appearing in the game. It should be noted that one character may be provided with a plurality of types of commands as commands that can be commanded, and the command information 703 is configured to include at least one parameter related to the commands that can be commanded.

The lottery section 105 performs a lottery process in the game of this embodiment. In the game of the present embodiment, the commands selected in the battle between the characters are selected and executed according to the result of the lottery performed by the lottery section 105. In the game of the present embodiment, the user (player) can basically use the three characters as one group and compete with the character that is the opponent. When there is a lottery request, the lottery section 105 performs lottery on each of the three characters, and outputs the results of all the characters as a lottery result.

The drawing unit 106 is, for example, a drawing device that performs a drawing process of a GPU or the like and generates a screen related to the game. The drawing unit 106 draws a game screen related to the game of this embodiment. Specifically, the drawing unit 106 reads out a necessary drawing object in accordance with information such as an in-game parameter according to the progress of the game and executes an appropriate arithmetic process during the game process described below to perform drawing. ..

The display unit 107 is a display device included in the game device 100, such as an LCD. The game screen drawn by the drawing unit 106 is displayed on the display unit 107. In the present embodiment, the display unit 107 is described as being incorporated in the game device 100, but may be any display device externally connected to the game device 100.

The recognition unit 108 detects that a card is placed on a predetermined portion provided on the game device 100 and recognizes the card. The recognition unit 108 captures the two-dimensional code 201 attached to the card, for example, as illustrated in FIG. 2 with an imaging device (not shown), and applies a predetermined calculation to the obtained image to Acquires the information indicated by the two-dimensional code. Information of a data structure as shown in FIG. 7B, for example, is obtained from the two-dimensional code attached to the card usable in the game of this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 7B, the information obtained from the two-dimensional code of the card is indicated by the user information 711 indicating the user (player) who has output the card as a result of playing the game, and the design of the card. , A character ID 712 for identifying the character corresponding to the card, and other information 713. The other information 713 may include, for example, growth parameter information indicating that the character corresponding to the card has grown as a result of game play. In addition, in the present embodiment, the description will be made assuming that the other information 713 includes the growth parameter information. However, the growth parameter information is acquired and managed by each user in a server (not shown) (output as a card. ) It may be managed in association with the information of each character. In this case, for example, the control unit 101 may identify and acquire the growth parameter information using the character ID 712 obtained as the recognition result.

Further, in this embodiment, the user information 711 is character string information set by the user at the time of the first game play, for example, and is used as a name of the user during the game. In the present embodiment, the user information 711 is not only attached to the card as so-called invisible information that cannot be acquired without applying a predetermined arithmetic processing like a two-dimensional code, but also as shown in FIG. The corresponding user character string 202 on the card is visible as "○○○○ (of)" to indicate which user owns the character having the name of the character string 203 corresponding to the card. It is also attached as information. The user information 711 does not have to be attached in a visible or invisible state as described above, and may be attached only as visible information or as invisible information, for example. When the user information 711 is added only as visible information, the user information 711 may be acquired by recognizing the character string by performing image processing on the design of the card, for example. When attached only in an invisible state, it is not necessary to be attached in a visible state as a random pattern like a two-dimensional code, for example, a state in which data is written in a predetermined recording chip embedded inside the card, It goes without saying that it is invisible.

The determination unit 109 determines whether the character corresponding to the card recognized by the recognition unit 108 is a character that the user playing the current game can use for the game. In the present embodiment, whether each character can be used in the game is determined by the determination process described later.

The operation input unit 110 is a user interface included in the game device 100, such as a decision button and a button used to decide a result in a lottery. When the operation input unit 110 detects an operation input made on various user interfaces, the operation input unit 110 outputs a control signal corresponding to the operation input to the control unit 101 or the lottery unit 105. It should be noted that in the present embodiment, the game apparatus 100 is described as having various interfaces as physical operation members, but includes, for example, a touch input detection sensor that detects a touch input made on the screen of the display unit 107. Good.

The output unit 111 outputs, as an article corresponding to the character, a card having the pattern of the character as shown in FIG. 2 with the user information 711 mentioned above. In this embodiment, the output unit 111 has a printing device and a print medium discharge mechanism, and prints an image of a character selected based on an instruction from the control unit 101 and predetermined graphic data on a predetermined print medium. Output. In the game of the present embodiment, the user can obtain a card on which any of the character played in the game and the character used for the play is printed at the end of one game play. The content printed on the card is different depending on the progress of the game, and in the present embodiment, printing is performed according to the progress of each game play, so that only the user can own it. The thing card is output. This allows users to own their own cards that other users do not own, and to obtain different cards for each game play, the card with fixed symbols is ejected. The desire to collect cards can be more satisfied as compared with a game using cards.

The communication unit 112 is a communication interface with an external device included in the game device 100. The communication unit 112 can be connected to an external device via a communication medium such as a communication network such as the Internet or a cable (not shown) such as a cable or the like, and can transmit/receive data. The game device 100 of the present embodiment is configured to be able to receive program data, which is a packaged program of a process related to a game, from an external device via the communication unit 112. When the program data is received by the communication unit 112 together with the program update request, the control unit 101 uses the received program data to execute the game processing program currently stored in the recording medium 102 in accordance with the update request. Can be updated. Note that, in addition to this, the program update process of the game is automatically executed when the program data recorded in the recording medium is inserted into an optical drive or the like (not shown) included in the game device, or after the insertion. It can also be executed by the administrator issuing a start command.

《Game outline》
Here, an outline of a game executed by the game device 100 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

In the game of the present embodiment, the user starts one game play by using a coin or a medal equivalent to a coin as a trigger as a trigger into a coin slot (not shown). When the game play starts, the user can register up to three characters used in the game. The registration of the character can be performed by placing the cards corresponding to the character on a predetermined part in order and recognizing them, as described above. The character that the user can use for the game is basically determined by whether or not the card corresponding to the character is provided with the user information of the user related to the current game play. In the game of this embodiment, it is assumed that the user information of the user relating to the current game play is set to the user information acquired from the card first placed and recognized. The method of acquiring the user information of the user relating to the current game play is not limited to this. For example, the user inputs it at the start of the game play, it is acquired by a predetermined person recognition method, or the embodiment described later. It may be determined by a predetermined process, such as being acquired from an article prepared for user identification as in item 3.

In the game of the present embodiment, only when the card has the same user information as the user information of the user who is involved in the current game play, the card is legally obtained by the user. It is possible to realize that the character can be used in the game. However, when the game is designed so as to strictly assure the identity between the user who is involved in the game play and the user who outputs the card, for example, a so-called trial user who wants to perform the game play for trial, or the number of experiences. It is possible to limit the game play of a so-called light user who is less frequent. Therefore, in the game of the present embodiment, the cards related to some characters are configured to be usable by any user regardless of the user information so that such a user can also have a suitable game experience. To do. Specifically, as described with respect to the character DB 104, the class information 704 is set for each of the characters prepared in advance so that they can appear in the game. In the game of the present embodiment, five grades from "A" to "E" are prepared as classes, and all characters are predetermined as belonging to any of them. The class is fixed information that does not depend on the game play, and is uniquely determined for each character, and may be clearly indicated on the card as indicated by 204 in FIG. Each class is classified in consideration of, for example, the height of basic parameters in the game, rarity, popularity ranking by users, etc., and is “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “E”. Are treated as having a lower rank (lower ownership value as a user). Therefore, in the game of the present embodiment, the character defined as belonging to the "D" or "E" class can be used less frequently by the user, and can be used by any user. That is, the determination unit 109 determines that the character can be used regardless of the user information attached to the card.

After the registration of the character used in the game, the user can search for the fighting character playing the fighting game by a predetermined operation. After the battle character is determined, the battle game is started, and the user can cause the used character to act by determining a command to instruct the registered character (used character). In the game of the present embodiment, the command for the used character is determined by the lottery process by the lottery section 105. Specifically, in the game screen as shown in FIG. 3A, when the spinning effect of the reel having the eye corresponding to the command for each used character is performed, the rotation stop operation is performed to perform the lottery. The outcome (winning eye) can be determined by the processing. In FIG. 3A, a reel in which graphics (eyes) corresponding to commands that can be selected for each used character are arranged in the vertical direction is displayed on each of the images 301a to 301c of the used characters arranged in the horizontal direction. Further, the battle character images 301d to 301e are displayed thereon. In FIG. 3A, the eye that is the result of the lottery is, in principle, the eye displayed in the area 302, and the command corresponding to the eye is the result, that is, the command for each used character. Confirmed as a command.

During the competitive game, if it is determined that the progress of the game is unfavorable to the user based on, for example, the physical strength gauges of all the used characters, a "summoning" event for additionally causing the character to appear in the game occurs. When the summoning event occurs, after the notification indicating that the summoning event has occurred, from the frame area 311 provided outside the reel display area 303 as shown in FIG. A graphic 312 for connection is arranged toward the side. As shown in FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), in the eyes lined up on the reels of each used character, there is a predetermined probability that the figure connecting figures will be outward from the peripheral edge of the eye figure. It is controlled to be attached. When a summoning event occurs, the figures 313 included in the area 302 are also provided with figures for linking the figures in the direction toward the frame area 311, so that these figures are as shown in FIG. 3B. It changes into a connected figure. The fact that the connecting figure is in the connected state means that the lottery process for summoning the new character of the summoning event has been won, and at this time, the control unit 101 can cause the recognition unit 108 to recognize the new card. Control the state. At this time, the user places a new card and makes it recognize the character corresponding to the card so as to bring about a predetermined effect of the character, such as reducing the physical strength gauge of the opponent character. It is possible to change the progress of the game.

It should be noted that the character that can appear when winning the lottery process related to the character summoning of the summoning event does not have to be the character corresponding to the card with the same user information as the user related to the current game play. .. This is because the user who has just started playing the game has a small number of cards and there is no card related to the summonable character, or the card related to the character that causes a special effect by summoning is distributed at events etc. The case is taken into consideration. In addition, defeating in competitive games may diminish the interest of the user, so for example, improving the probability of winning a game by borrowing a card from a friend close to the user It is suitable for promoting the next game play of the user.

When the competitive game is completed, the user can select one character from the used characters (excluding the summoned character) or the competitive character and output a card on which an image of the character is printed. As the character that can be output as a card, it is also possible to select a used character registered using a card to which user information different from the user who is involved in the current game play is attached, that is, a character whose class is D or E. In this case, the card related to the character is output as the card to which the user information of the user related to the current game play is attached. On the other hand, even if the character corresponding to the card recognized by the recognition unit 108 before the start of the competitive game is determined to be unusable, the control unit 101 does not register the character as the used character. Unless is included in the fighting character, the user cannot control the character and cannot output the card. The information to be attached to the card, including the user information, is printed by printing the corresponding two-dimensional code as described with reference to FIG. 2 or by printing the character string “XXXXX” indicating the user who has output the card. What is necessary is just to do it.

<Judgment process>
Hereinafter, the details of the determination process, which is executed in the game device according to the present embodiment, for determining whether or not the character related to the article recognized by the recognition unit 108 can be used in the game will be described with reference to the flowchart in FIG. 4. To do. The processing corresponding to the flowchart can be realized by the control unit 101 reading out a corresponding processing program stored in the recording medium 102, expanding the processing program in the memory 103, and executing the program. This determination process is performed when the character registration is performed or a new character is summoned at the summoning event after the control unit 101 performs the process related to the game for one game play according to the payment of the consideration by the user. Will be described as being started when performing.

In S401, the recognition unit 108 determines whether or not a card usable for the game is placed on a predetermined portion of the game device 100. When the recognition unit 108 determines that the card has been placed, the process proceeds to S402, and when it is determined that the card has not been placed, the process of this step is repeated.

In step S402, the recognition unit 108 recognizes the two-dimensional code 201 of the placed card and stores information (target information) obtained as a recognition result in the memory 103.

In S403, the control unit 101 determines whether or not the current game progress status is a status in which a summon event is occurring. Whether or not a summoning event has occurred can be determined, for example, by referring to the corresponding event flag (logical type information) stored in the memory 103, or by referring to the physical strength gauge of the character used as described above. Is. When the control unit 101 determines that the progress of the current game is a situation in which a summoning event is occurring, the control unit 101 shifts the processing to S404, and determines that the character corresponding to the recognized card can be used in the game. The result is output, and this determination process is completed. In this case, the control unit 101 causes the display unit 107 to display a display indicating that the effect corresponding to the character is activated by summoning the character corresponding to the placed card. If the control unit 101 determines that the current game progress is not a situation in which a summon event is occurring, the control unit 101 shifts the processing to S405.

In step S405, the control unit 101 determines whether the user information of the user who is involved in the current game play and the user information 711 included in the target information are the same. In the game of the present embodiment, the user information is character string information as described above, so it is determined in this step whether or not the character strings of the two user information match. That is, in the game of the present embodiment, if the user information 711 included in the target information and the user information of the user are the same character string, the card related to the target information can be used. That is, for example, when the user uses his/her last name or first name as user information, a card output by game play by a user who has the same last name or same name and also uses the same surname or first name as user information. Will be judged as a card that can be used for game play. In the game of the present embodiment, the user information acquired from the card recognized in the registration of the first used character is stored in the memory 103 as the user information of the user, so that the first card is always included in the target information. It is determined that the user information 711 and the user information of the user are the same. When the control unit 101 determines that the user information of the user and the user information 711 included in the target information are the same, the control unit 101 shifts the processing to S406, and the character corresponding to the recognized card can be used in the game. The judgment result is output, and this judgment process is completed. In this case, the control unit 101 causes the display unit 107 to display a display indicating that the character corresponding to the placed card is usable, and displays the character ID of the character in the memory 103 for managing the used character. Use the character table to register. The display indicating that the character corresponding to the placed card is usable may be, for example, a notification simply indicating that the character is registered, or the image of the character is arranged in the display area. It may be. On the other hand, when the control unit 101 determines that the user information of the user and the user information 711 included in the target information are different, the control unit 101 shifts the processing to S407.

In step S407, the control unit 101 determines whether the rank of the character corresponding to the recognized card is D or E. Specifically, the control unit 101 reads the corresponding character class information 704 from the character DB 104 based on the character ID 712 included in the target information, and determines whether the character DB 104 corresponds to D or E. When the control unit 101 determines that the rank of the character corresponding to the recognized card is D or E, the control unit 101 shifts the processing to S406, and in the other ranks, that is, the rank C or higher (A, B, C). If it is determined that there is, the process proceeds to S408.

In step S408, the control unit 101 outputs a determination result that the character corresponding to the recognized card is unusable in the game, and completes the determination process. In this case, the control unit 101 may display a display indicating that the character corresponding to the placed card is unusable on the display unit 107, and may give a notification prompting the placement of a different card. The display indicating that the character corresponding to the placed card cannot be used is a card of another user, or a card of another user, and the class is larger than a predetermined class, etc. It may also notify the reason why registration is not possible.

In the determination processing according to the present embodiment, the method of determining whether or not the character ID 104 is usable based on the character ID 712 included in the target information is referred to from the class information 704 associated with the same character ID 701 from the character DB 104. The implementation of the present invention is not limited to this. That is, the class information 704 may be configured at the time of card output as information (target information) that can be acquired from the two-dimensional code 201 as with the user information 711 described above, or is acquired by image recognition of the card pattern. May be.

Further, in the present embodiment, the character DB 104 is described as being in the game device 100, but the character DB 104 may be on an external server and is configured to be able to acquire information via the communication unit 112. May be.

As described above, the game device according to the present embodiment can enable the character corresponding to the article that is properly obtained by the user to be used in the game. Specifically, the game device outputs an article related to the character of the game with user information indicating at least a specific user in a visible or invisible state, and relates to a game using the character corresponding to the article. Execute the process. Then, the game device determines whether or not the character corresponding to the recognized article can be used in the game based on information obtained according to the recognition result, including user information attached to the article.

[Embodiment 2]
In the above-described embodiment, a method of determining whether or not the character corresponding to the recognized card can be used based on whether the user information matches, the character class, and whether or not a summoning event is occurring has been described. The present embodiment will further describe a method of determining availability based on information other than these. The game device 100 of the present embodiment has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment, and the description of the functional configuration is omitted.

<Judgment process>
The determination process executed by the game device 100 according to this embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG. Note that in the following description, steps that perform the same processing as the determination processing of the first embodiment will be assigned the same reference numerals and description thereof will be omitted, and only the steps that perform the processing characteristic of this embodiment will be described.

When it is determined in S407 that the class of the character corresponding to the recognized card is C or higher, the control unit 101 determines in S501 that a predetermined condition for determining that the character can be used regardless of user information is satisfied. Determine whether or not The predetermined condition determined in this step is a condition regarding the recognized card or a character corresponding to the card, and in the game of the present embodiment, it is determined whether any of the following conditions is satisfied.

(1) Matching of the game device that outputs the card Regarding this condition, for example, other information 713 includes information for identifying the game device that outputs the card, and the output unit 111 includes the information. It is possible to make a determination by outputting a card with a dimension code attached, and when the card is recognized, the information for identifying the game device that has output the card can be acquired. Alternatively, the other information 713 includes different card identification information for each output card, and the output unit 111 outputs a card with a two-dimensional code including the information, and when the card is recognized, the card is recognized. It is possible to make a determination by being configured so that the game device that has output the card can be identified from the information managed by the server or the like based on the identification information.

Further, the present condition may be one in which it is determined that the condition is satisfied when either of the following two cases is met.

(I) When the card is used in a game device that outputs a card In the first case, the game device that outputs the recognized card is the device that is currently playing the game, that is, the determination process. This is the case of the game device itself. Specifically, the control unit 101 satisfies the predetermined condition when the information included in the target information that identifies the game device that outputs the recognized card is the same as the information that identifies the game device of its own. Judge that it was done. Alternatively, the control unit 101 inquires based on the card identification information included in the target information, for example, information identifying the game device that has output the card by accessing an external server (not shown), and the information is the game device of its own. When the information is the same as the information for identifying, it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied.

(Ii) When a plurality of recognized cards are output in the same game device The second case is a game device in which the card recognized for the first registered use character is output when the use character is registered. And the game device that has output the newly recognized card is the same. Specifically, when the card is first recognized by the recognition unit 108 for one game play, the control unit 101 uses information for identifying the game device that outputs the card, which is included in the target information, for reference. It is stored in the memory 103 as device identification information. Then, for the new card recognized by the recognition unit 108 thereafter, if the information for identifying the game device that has output the card included in the target information is the same as the reference device identification information, It is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied. Alternatively, when the card is first recognized by the recognition unit 108 for one game play, the control unit 101 outputs information for identifying the game device that has output the card based on the card identification information included in the target information, for example. It is acquired from an external server and stored as device identification information for reference. Then, the control unit 101 determines whether the new card recognized by the recognition unit 108 thereafter is the same as the reference device identification information, which is acquired from the external server and which identifies the game device that has output the card. It is determined that the condition of is satisfied.

(2) The user must be the same as the character who has already output the card. For this condition, a user ID that uniquely identifies the user relating to the current game play is provided, and the character ID corresponding to the card output by the user. The list information is recorded in, for example, an external server in association with the user ID, and the list information can be determined by acquiring the list information from the server as information for determination.

For example, when the user information 711 included in the first recognized card is used as the user relating to the current game play as in the first embodiment, the other information 713 is output as a card different from the user information. The user ID of the user who has made the request may be included in the output unit 111, and the card with the two-dimensional code including the information may be output. In this case, the control unit 101 acquires the list information from the external server based on the user ID acquired from the first recognized card and stores it in the memory 103. Then, the control unit 101 determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied for the new card recognized by the recognition unit 108 when the character information ID 701 included in the target information acquired from the card is included in the list information. ..

As described above, when the control unit 101 satisfies any of the conditions and determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the process proceeds to S406, the condition is not satisfied, and the predetermined condition is satisfied. If it is determined that it is not, the process proceeds to S408.

As described above, at least a game device that performs game play, a game device that outputs a card, a game device that outputs a card and a game device that outputs another card, and a character corresponding to the card and a character that the user outputs to the card. Whether or not the character corresponding to the recognized card can be used may be determined depending on whether or not a predetermined relationship is established between any of them.

In the first and second embodiments, the user information of the user who is involved in the current game play has been described as being acquired from the first recognized card, but the present invention is not limited to this. The user information of the user relating to the current game play is the user information relating to the current game play, for example, among the user information attached to the recognized cards, the user information having the most user information indicating the same character string is the user information relating to the current game play. May be selected as the user information of. In this case, the determination process may be executed for the card having the user information that has not been selected as the user for the current game play.

[Third Embodiment]
In the above-described first and second embodiments, when the user information of the user relating to the current game play does not match the user information attached to the recognized card, the game uniquely determined for the character corresponding to the card, Although it has been described that the availability of the character is determined based on the fixed information (class information) regardless of the play, the implementation of the present invention is not limited to this. In the present embodiment, a method of determining whether or not a character can be used based on information that changes according to the result of game play among information related to the character corresponding to the card when the user information does not match will be described.

<<Structure of the game device 100>>
The game device 100 according to the present embodiment basically has the same functional configuration as the game device 100 according to the first embodiment described above, but is different in the following points.

The recognition unit 108 is configured to be capable of recognizing a card of a type different from the card related to the character used in the competitive game, as well as the card. The different types of cards (user cards) are cards provided for each user to play the game, and manage information about the user who plays the game. The user card includes, for example, as shown in FIG. 7C, setting user information 721 set by the user and play history information 722 indicating the battle record of the competitive game made by the user. The information of the user card may also be information attached to the card by attaching a corresponding two-dimensional code as in the case of the character card. Further, in this embodiment, the card related to the character includes the growth level information indicating the growth stage of the character corresponding to the card in the other information 713.

In the present embodiment, the setting user information 721 and the play history information 722 can be acquired by the recognition unit 108 recognizing the two-dimensional code of the user card, but the present invention is not limited to this. It is not something that can be done. For example, as described above, these pieces of information may be obtained by recognizing the printed character string. Alternatively, the two-dimensional code of the user card includes at least only identification information (user ID) that identifies the user, and the setting user information 721 and the play history information 722 can be acquired from an external server based on the information. May be done.

Further, since the game executed by the game device 100 of the present embodiment is simple, unlike the first and second embodiments, it is assumed that there is no event that summons another character in the competitive game.

<Judgment process>
The determination process executed in the game device 100 of this embodiment will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Note that in the following description, steps that perform the same processing as the determination processing of the first embodiment will be assigned the same reference numerals and description thereof will be omitted, and only the steps that perform the processing characteristic of this embodiment will be described.

The user card is recognized by the recognition unit 108 before the determination process of the present embodiment is performed, and the set user information 721 acquired from the card as a result of the recognition is stored in the memory as the user information of the user related to the current game play. It is assumed to be stored in 103. That is, in the game of the present embodiment, the user information of the user relating to the current game play does not use the user information acquired from the target information obtained as the recognition result of the first recognized card, but relates to the character. It is acquired from a user card of a different type from the card.

When it is determined in S405 that the user information of the user is different from the user information 711 included in the target information, the control unit 101 determines in S601 whether the character corresponding to the recognized card has reached a predetermined growth stage. To judge. Specifically, the control unit 101 refers to the growth level information included in the other information 713 of the target information, and determines whether or not the growth stage of the character has reached a predetermined growth stage. For the predetermined growth stage, for example, a so-called light user can enjoy the game of the present embodiment preferably by using characters up to the growth stage, and can be enjoyed by other users in score ranking or the like. It may be assigned to such an extent that it has no influence. If the control unit 101 determines that the character corresponding to the recognized card has reached the predetermined growth stage, the control unit 101 moves the process to S408, and if it determines that the character corresponding to the recognized card has not reached the growth stage, the control unit 101 moves the process to S406.

By doing so, in the game of the present embodiment, it is possible to determine whether or not the character can be used by using information that changes according to the result of the game play, while considering the game balance and the interests of other users. ..

[Modification]
As described above, in the first to third embodiments, the game device according to the present invention has been described with respect to the method of determining whether or not a character can be used, but the determination elements in each of the embodiments may be arbitrarily combined according to the implementation mode. .. For example, a character corresponding to one card has both the class and the growth stage of the character corresponding to the card, even if the user information of the user relating to the current game play is different from the user information attached to the card. If the condition is satisfied, it may be determined that the character can be used.

In addition to this, the growth stage is determined in two stages, and when it has not reached the first growth stage, it can be used for a competitive game and can be output as a card with user information of the user after the competitive game ends. If it has reached the growth stage of 1 and has not reached the second growth stage, it can be used in the battle game, but it may be configured so that it cannot be output as a card after the battle game ends.

Further, in each of the above-described embodiments, the article output by the game device 100 is described as a card, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, when the output unit 111 is a device capable of generating a three-dimensional model such as a so-called 3D printer, the article may be a model such as a figure related to the character, and the output unit 111 includes at least the name information of the character. May be added to output. Further, for example, when the output unit 111 has a sorter of a plurality of types of toys and is configured to be able to selectively output toys relating to a predetermined character, the article may be the toy, and the output unit 111 may be At least character name information may be added to this and output.

[Other Embodiments]
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The game device according to the present invention can also be realized by a program that causes one or more computers to function as the game device. The program can be provided/distributed by being recorded in a computer-readable recording medium or through an electric communication line.

100: game device, 101: control unit, 102: recording medium, 103: memory, 104: character DB, 105: lottery unit, 106: drawing unit, 107: display unit, 108: recognition unit, 109: determination unit, 110 : Operation input unit, 111: output unit, 112: communication unit

Claims (5)

An article game character is associated, game outputs an article user information indicating at least a particular user in a visible or invisible is attached, using a character associated with the recognized article A game device that executes the process according to
Deciding means for deciding the user information used for the user relating to the current game play, based on the user information attached to each of the plurality of recognized articles,
Whether or not the character associated with the recognized item can be used in the game is determined based on the user information attached to the item and the user information used for the user related to the current game play. Equipped with judgment means,
The determining means determines the most user information of the user information attached to the plurality of recognized articles as the user information used for the user related to the current game play,
The judgment unit, the user information attached to the recognized article, wherein when it is determined that the same as the user information used for the user according to the current game play associated with the article available and the judgment be that the game apparatus of the character was. The user information is character string information indicating the specific user,
The determination means corresponds to the item when the character string of the user information attached to the recognized item and the character string of the user information used for the user of the current game play match. The game device according to claim 1, wherein the attached character is determined to be usable. Said determining means of the user information associated with each of a plurality of the recognized article, the user information largest number of the user information indicating the same string, said current gameplay The game device according to claim 2 , wherein the game device is determined as the user information used for the user. A program for causing a computer to function as each unit of the game device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 . A game article character associated game, and game articles user information is attached indicating at least a particular user in a visible or invisible, and outputs the game article was recognized game A game system configured to execute a process relating to a game using a character associated with an article for use,
The game device is
Determining means for determining the user information to be used for the user relating to the current game play, based on the user information attached to each of the plurality of recognized game articles;
Whether or not the character associated with the recognized game item can be used in the game is determined by the user information attached to the game item and the user information used for the user related to the current game play. Equipped with a judgment means to judge based on
The determining means determines the most user information of the user information attached to the plurality of recognized game articles as the user information used for the user related to the current game play,
The judgment unit, the user information attached to the recognized game article, wherein when it is determined that the same as the user information used for the user according to the current game play, the gaming article game system that allows a judgment using the character associated with.

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