KR100704539B1 - Method and system for controlling online games using automatic modification of seed money - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an online game control method, in particular, a game control method in an online game in which a plurality of participants participating in a game each have two or more betting opportunities, wherein the seed money is automatically changed according to the number of participants. It provides a way to control an online game so that it keeps its interest in the game irrespective of the change in the number so as not to reduce participation in the game.

The present invention provides a game control method for controlling an online game in which a plurality of participants connected through a network have two or more betting opportunities, and decides whether or not to win or lose. When the participant having the first betting opportunity of the game bets Automatically changing a seed money according to the number of participants; And automatically adjusting the bet amount of each of the plurality of participants until a predetermined betting opportunity to be a constant percentage of the sum of the bet amounts before the participant having the bet opportunity bets.

Online game, automatic betting amount adjustment, seed money automatic change

Description

Online game control method and system using seed money automatic change {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ONLINE GAMES USING AUTOMATIC MODIFICATION OF SEED MONEY}

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an online game control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating steps of a game control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a screen related to a channel, a game rule, and the like displayed on a terminal of a participant when selecting a channel and a room according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a screen displayed on the terminal of the participant while the online game is in progress according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating the steps of a method for automatically changing the seed money according to the number of participants according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to an online game control method, and more particularly, to an online game control method and system using automatic change of seed money in an online game in which a plurality of participants participating in a game have two or more betting opportunities.

Recently, with the development of communication and network technology, various types of online game services have been provided through the medium of the Internet. Among these online game services, a plurality of participants betting each of the game money provided by the game service and distributing all bets or parts to the winners when the winning or losing is decided is popular. . An example of such an online game is an online poker game in which seven cards are distributed to each participant and the winning or losing of each participant's cards is determined by comparing the superiority, or "family tree," of each participant.

In the case of the above-mentioned online poker game, if five players play the game, the dealer usually deals three cards, one for each participant, in turn, and one of them is played for all players to see. After the player is invisible, he or she decides the participant who is eligible to receive the fourth card first using the unfolded one card, that is, the first (or "boss"), according to the predetermined game rules. . After that, according to the game rules, the fourth card is dealt in order from the above line, and after the fourth card is dealt, the first card and the fourth card that are already unfolded are laid out so that all participants can see the game. Set the line again according to the rules. At this point, all participants may bet in turn. After all participants have placed their bets, the 5th card is dealt, and the 2nd and 5th cards that were played are placed again and the betting process is repeated until the 7th card. In general, in the case of online poker, after each of the 5th and 6th cards is dealt with as well as offline, each participant will be offered 2 betting opportunities. Or follow the game rules set by the participants. The last seven cards are dealt, the line is set, the final bet is made, and the winning game is decided according to the game rules.

On the other hand, in this kind of online card game, the first bet on the line after receiving the fourth card is the basic bet amount called "seed money" (the term seed money used in the present invention is sometimes a minimum bet on the first bet). A betting rule is generally used that bets the amount of bets based on the sum of the bets and the subsequent bets, together with the sum of the previous bets (hereinafter also referred to as "stake"). This betting rule restricts the bet amount to a certain percentage of the stake (e.g. 50% or 100%) for each participant's bet so that the bet amount is not too large for each bet. It is common to decide.

In addition, in the case of the online game described above, each participant has two or more betting opportunities. For example, in the case of the online poker game, each participant has six betting opportunities in determining the win or loss of a game. . Therefore, each participant must decide the amount he wishes to bet on his betting opportunity.It is complicated to have the bet amount determined for each participant who has a betting opportunity for each betting opportunity because the bet amount must be calculated in consideration of the stake. There was a problem of doing and cumbersome. This is especially a problem for online games where an unspecified number of people are involved and the amount of bet can be much larger than offline and wants to win or lose quickly. Therefore, in order to eliminate the hassle of having to calculate the amount of bets individually at the time of their betting opportunities and to keep their interest in the game, online game service providers provide a selection icon for a number of possible betting methods and the participants only By simply selecting such a selection icon by clicking or the like, the game server provides a game service in which a bet amount is automatically calculated. In addition, in the case of a game in which each participant has many betting opportunities, the bet amount is automatically increased until a predetermined betting opportunity in order to reduce the number of bets directly, because the participant must directly select a bet every betting opportunity. It is common to provide game services in a determined manner. For example, in the case of the online poker game described above, the game is operated to bet automatically at the same rate, for example 50% or 100% of the total stake, for example, after receiving the fifth card until the second betting opportunity. Doing.

However, in this method of betting, each participant has a problem in that it is difficult to confirm whether their bet amount is calculated correctly. In addition, since the seed money for the first bet in the online game is fixed, there is a problem that the amount of betting may vary depending on the number of participants in the subsequent betting opportunities. For example, in the case of an online poker game in which the bet is automatically placed until the second betting opportunity after the fifth card is dealt as described above, the second betting opportunity after receiving the fifth card when five players enter the game. Since all 15 bets will be made automatically by the time, while only 6 bets will be made for 2 players, if the seed money is applied uniformly regardless of the number of participants, the amount that the participants can bet The problem is that the smaller the participants lose interest in the game. Furthermore, due to the nature of online games, where the betting amount is not as great as offline and the participant who has already participated in the game can quit the game at any time during the game or a new participant can participate, In case of quitting the game, if there is a significant difference in the amount of bets available to the remaining participants, the interest in the game is no longer maintained and the participants no longer play the game.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and to provide a method and system for controlling an online game so as to maintain interest in the game regardless of a change in the number of participants, thereby reducing participation in the game. To provide.

An online game control method according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is a game control method for controlling an online game that determines the winning or losing after each of the plurality of participants connected through the network has a betting opportunity more than two times The method may include: automatically changing a seed money when a participant having a first betting opportunity of the game bets according to the number of the plurality of participants; And automatically adjusting the bet amount of each of the plurality of participants until a predetermined betting opportunity to be a constant percentage of the sum of the bet amounts before the participant with the betting opportunity bets.

An online game control system according to another aspect of the present invention is a game control system for controlling an online game in which a plurality of participants connected through a network each have a betting opportunity two or more times to determine a win or loss, the first bet of the game A seed money change module for automatically changing seed money when a participant having a chance to place a bet according to the number of the plurality of participants; And a game rule management module that automatically adjusts the bet amount of the plurality of participants until a predetermined betting opportunity is a certain percentage of the sum of the bet amounts before the participant having the bet opportunity bets. .

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an online game control system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Although the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 relates to an online poker game, the present invention is not only applied to such a poker game, but may be applied to any kind of game as long as it is an online game in which a plurality of participants each have two or more betting opportunities. This includes the so-called five-game, which receives two fighting cards first and bets the given number of times; A so-called high-low game in which all participants are dealt cards and bet high / low / swing after the bet is over and the winner is decided accordingly. After the first bet, the player will be given a chance to exchange cards and bet several times again.

The game control system 110 and the subscriber information database 120 in the game server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention are client nodes 141 and 142 through a conventional network 130 such as a wired / wireless internet and an intranet. 143, 144). In the present invention, the game server 100 each has a conventional computer configuration, such as a motherboard, a central processing unit and memory means, and is equipped with Windows NT, Linux or other operating systems. Participants can access the game control system 110 within the game server 100 providing game services via the network 130.

The game control system 110 of the present invention is operatively coupled with the subscriber information database 120. The subscriber information database 120 stores the subscriber's ID and current access, other subscriber information such as subscriber's personal information and subscriber's existing game record information. The personal information of the subscriber information database 120 may include a hobby, a school, a region, an age, a religion, a gender, a constellation, a 12 branch, a blood type, a biorhythm, and the like. The subscriber's game record information may include an average game time, access time, registered friends, version, multiplier, odds, rating, game money, and the like.

Game control system 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a game driver 111, the card evaluation module 112, game rule management module 113, card generation module 114, money management module ( 115), the seed money change module 116, and the channel and room management module 117. 1, although various game control modules and a subscriber information database 120 in the game control system 110 are illustrated as being in one processor, the various game control modules and the subscriber information database are different from each other. The processor may be distributed in four processors, and in this case, may communicate with the Internet via a communication interface, a web server, and / or an Internet interface, not shown.

The game driver 111 accesses the subscriber information database 120 to check and determine whether a participant is registered in the game server, for example, whether or not the participant who wants to participate in the game is registered with the game and the game money of the participant. After confirming or initializing, and also receiving a request from the participants to send the response to each participant after routing or activating the various game control module to perform the requested work.

That is, the game driver 111 exchanges data between the game control system 110 and the participants via the Internet and adjusts the operation of the game control system 110 as a whole. In particular, the game driver 111 identifies each participant when the participants in the client node request to play a card game, and generates an internal data structure for communication with other control modules of the game control system 110, Determine the output of the game control system for each participant, distribute game data among other modules of the game control system 110, and allow the participant to output the card representation.

The game driver 111 also communicates with the subscriber information database 120 as the game progresses. The subscriber information database 120 stores various information related to each participant. In particular, the subscriber information database 120 stores information identifying each participant, information related to the game money and credit limit of the participant, and information related to the initial state and contents of the game to be registered for each registered participant. That is, the subscriber information database 120 stores enough information so that the game control system 110 retrieves the relevant information and responds to the request of the participant so that each participant can play the game. The subscriber information database 120 also includes, for each participant registered as a subscriber, information related to any game the participant is participating in; In particular, it is possible to store information related to the type of game, the channel and the room, and information related to the amount of game money of the participants when participating in a specific game.

The card evaluating module 112 compares the cards output by the game driver 111 to each participant, evaluates the participant, and determines the order of card distribution of the participant. The driver 111 distributes the cards to the terminals of each participant in the client node in the order of dispensing and outputs the result of the winning and losing.

The game driver 111 also communicates with the game rule management module 113, which is a betting limit for each game to which betting mode is applied until which betting opportunity is applied in each game. And information on the total betting limit per participant is stored by the participant's choice or the game server operator's choice. In addition, the game rule management module 113 receives all participant request signals including information indicating the amount to be wagered from each participant. Accordingly, the game rule management module 113 determines the participant's selection related to the type of game, and enforces the game rule and the betting rule for the type of the game selected during the game. That is, the game rule management module 113 determines which betting opportunities are automatically bet based on the determined game rules and betting rules, and how much the betting amount is when the bets are automatically output to the game driver 111.

The card generation module 114 generates, for example, a set or sequence of substantially ordered random card representations, each card representation being supplied to a game driver 111, which in turn generates a card generation module 114. The most recent card representation received from) is output to the card evaluation module 112 with the participant's request and / or the participant information automatically and simultaneously to the participant screen of the client nodes via the Internet. The card representation generated by the card generation module 114 may vary according to the type of game. For example, the card representation generated when the type of the game is a so-called game as described above may be a representation of a Japanese packet. will be.

In addition, the game driver 111 outputs the result of the bet and the result of the betting together with the participant's ID to the money management module 115 to update the game money of each participant according to the most recent game result. In addition, the money management module 115 performs a bet amount calculation according to the winning or losing of each participant. Thus, the money management module 115 is a tool for initializing a new game in that it receives and maintains game money information related to each of the current game participants. The money management module 115 has a communication data channel with the subscriber information database 120 to retrieve information for determining whether the participant has enough game money to cover a potential defeat, for example. Of course, in order to provide betting result information for each game to other control modules, confirmation information may be received from each module requiring the betting result. However, in response to any participant requests, the money management module 115 communicates with the game rule management module 113 to confirm that the bet of the participant matches the predetermined game rule and to confirm whether the bet amount can be accepted. .

The seed money change module 116 determines the bet amount for a bet for the first time during the game according to the game rule determined by the game rule management module 113. According to the present embodiment, the seed money change module 116 automatically changes the minimum bet amount according to the number of participants and causes the game driver 111 to output the participant screen of the client nodes through the network. Seeding money changing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIG.

The channel and room management module 117 allows a user to select which channel to play, that is, what kind of game, according to the selection of the participants, and the types of channels classified according to the level of the participants who want to participate in the game. And select whether to open a game room and participate in an already established game room within the selected channel. Here, the channel is a unit consisting of a list of game rooms and a list of participants located in the game room for each game.

2 illustrates a game control method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The following control method of this embodiment is described with reference to the game control system of FIG.

First, when a participant logs in from a client node, the game driver 111 accesses a subscriber information database to check whether the participant is a member of the game service.If the participant is identified as a subscriber, various game related information such as game money for the participant is confirmed. The information is received, temporarily stored, and displayed on the screen of the participant's computer (step 201). After that, the participant selects the type of game, the channel and the game room (step 202), and enters a room already opened by another participant (step 206). Afterwards and after confirming that there is a sufficient number of participants for the game, the game can be joined (steps 207 and 208). On the other hand, if you open a new room without joining an already established room (step 203), the person who opened the room becomes a dealer (or a headmaster) and waits for another participant to play the game (step 204). If desired, the game starts (step 205).

When the game starts, the game driver 111 first determines the number of participants participating in the current game (step 211), and transmits the information to the seed money change module 116 to the seed money change module 116. ) Instructs the game driver 111 to automatically change the seed money according to the number of participants and output the changed seed money to the game screen (step 212). You can decide.

While the game is in progress, the game driver 111 causes the game rule management module 113 to automatically adjust the wager amount of each participant until the predetermined betting opportunity is referred to with reference to the predetermined game rule (step 214). The management module 115 causes the information on the game money of each participant's bet to be updated. The number of bets that are automatically bet is determined by the participant's choice or game rules set by the game server operator before selecting the channel and room. The bet amount of each participant in the automatic betting according to the present embodiment is calculated by adding all the bet amounts of each participant in turn at a constant rate and adding up, and the amount divided by the number of participants is the bet amount per person. This allows all participants to bet the same amount, making it easy to see their bet amount, and all participants have the same opportunity to bet their own, as described below.

Once the automatic betting up to a predetermined betting opportunity is completed, the participant may place the bet amount on his or her own betting opportunity (step 215), in which case the betting method is to place the bet as much as the previous participant bet. "Call", good only, "check" that goes beyond the bet, "Don't bet" twice the amount of the previous player's bet, "Half" bet by half of the total bet, that plate "Die" to give up, can only be a line and "삥" to bet only a predetermined base amount may be included. When the handing out of cards and the betting of each participant are completed, the winning or losing of the game is determined according to the cards held by the participant (step 216).

When the game progress is completed by the game driver 111 and the game is decided, the money management module 115 waits for a signal that the final stake is distributed to each participant and continues the game according to the result of the game and the game rules (step 217). To continue the game.

In FIG. 2, the game control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is only schematically illustrated, and even when the user enters an already established game room, the game room may be watched without a game and may be immediately exited. You can also stop the game and leave the game room or log out at any time during the game.However, for convenience, if you stop the game before the game is decided, you can send a warning message. It is desirable to stop the game after the game is decided.

3 illustrates a screen related to a channel and a game rule displayed on a participant's monitor when the channel and the room are selected in step 202 of FIG. 2. The screen of FIG. 3 is a part 301 and 302 related to the type and channel of the game, a part 303 for displaying options for game rules and betting rules, and a part 304 for displaying the amount of seed money according to the number of participants. ), A part 305 in which information such as a participant's ID and retained game money, a record, and the like are displayed, and a part 306 in which a game server operator notifies a participant of a notice.

Referring to the betting rule according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 3, for example, in the case of an online poker game in which seven cards are determined to win or lose, the "591 betting rule" is the fifth card for all participants. If each participant is bet automatically until the 1st betting opportunity (ie 1 betting opportunity after the 4th card is dealt, and 1st betting opportunity after the 2nd betting opportunity after the 5th card is dealt) Bet rules are automatically bet on 2 total of 2 betting opportunities), and "592 bet rules" means that each participant is bet automatically until the 2nd bet opportunity. "691 Bet Roll" means that the player is automatically bet on the cards after all six players have handed out the sixth card, until the betting opportunity of the first player who has the first betting opportunity. Say. Such betting rules may be determined in other ways by agreement of game server operators or participants.

4 illustrates a screen displayed on a participant's monitor when a game is in progress. The screen of FIG. 4 may express the type of card received by the participants, the participant ID, and the game money of the participants, and includes a seed money display portion 401 and a stake display portion 402 in the center. The seed money display portion 401 may display the seed money side by side based on the number of participants by default as the default seed money, or may be displayed so that the seed money to be highlighted is changed according to the number of participants. In addition, when the mouse is hovered over the seed money display portion, a description of the seed change according to the number of participants may be shown. The other parts are displayed in such a way that a selection icon for a possible betting method can be entered by numbers instead of a mouse when the participant bets directly, and is composed of parts that display a genealogy, a chat window, and the like.

5 illustrates an example of a method for automatically changing the seed money according to the number of participants according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method of changing the seed money of the present embodiment uses a binary search method. Binary searching is a way to search a table (sequential file) in which data is arranged in a specific order. First, it looks at the element near the middle of the table, and finds whether the data to be searched is before or after it. It is a search method that reduces the range of files (file range) which are stored sequentially by repeating the judgment method until it is found.

Referring to the method of changing the seed money according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention using the binary search method, if the number of betting rules and the number of game participants determined at the start of the game is first determined in step 501, the target stake in step 502 It is determined to be a level determined as a result of automatic betting in the case of a game service provided basically by determining that a certain level, preferably the number of participants is the most or the game server operator is the most desirable number of participants. Then, in step 503, the seed money is calculated as the lowest unit, for example, 100 won, to calculate the final stake according to the determined betting rule (step 504), and then it is determined whether the calculated final stake is equal to or greater than the target stake. (Step 505), if it is less than or equal to the target stake, the seed money is increased by a constant amount, for example, twice (step 506), and the process of recalculating the final stake according to the determined betting rule is continued. If the calculated final stake is greater than or equal to the target stake, the correct seed money is calculated by a binary search in step 507. In this case, the binary search method calculates the final stake according to the betting rule with the seed money that is half of the seed money when it is equal to or greater than the target stake and determines whether or not it is equal to or less than the target stake. Repeat to determine the appropriate seed money. The significant digits are then set and the seed money appears on the game screen (steps 508 and 509).

If the seed money is changed in this way, if the 592 betting rules are applied to the online poker game described above, the total stake, bet per person and 691 betting rules are applied (both 50% of the bets are available). The size of the last bet amount according to the number of people is shown in Table 1 below.

Number of people Seed money 592 691 Full stake Amount of Bet Per Person Full stake Last bet amount 5 people 100,000 411,234,009,000 82,246,801,800 616,851,013,500 205,617,004,500 4 people 2,500,000 389,980,000,000 97,495,000,000 584,970,000,000 194,990,000,000 3 people 50,000,000 247,832,812,500 82,610,937,500 371,749,218,700 123,916,406,200 2 people 1,000,000,000 128,000,000,000 64,000,000,000 192,000,000,000 64,000,000,000

As can be seen in Table 1, when the seed money is automatically changed according to the number of participants according to the present invention, the bet amount per person (for example, 592 bets) when the seed money is applied uniformly regardless of the number of participants. It can be seen that the rule and the 691 betting rule apply) and / or the last bet amount (for example, when the 691 rule applies) do not differ significantly regardless of the number of participants.

Although the above is described in an online poker game as a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is not only applied to such an online card game but is applied to all games in which each game participant may have a plurality of betting opportunities in one game. Note that you can.

According to the present invention, in an online game in which a plurality of participants each have two or more betting opportunities, each participant is automatically calculated according to the bet amount until the bet amount is automatically adjusted until a predetermined betting opportunity to which a predetermined betting rule is applied. In addition to avoiding the hassle and difficulty of verifying the same, the seed money is automatically changed according to the number of participants so that no difference in the amount of bet can be made regardless of the change in the number of game participants. Even if the game is terminated, the continuity of the game is maintained so that the remaining participants can continue the game while maintaining interest in the game.

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A game control method for controlling an online game in which a plurality of participants connected to a game server through a network have a betting opportunity two or more times and then determine a win or loss, A seed money changing module of the game server automatically changing seed money when a participant having a first betting opportunity of the game bets according to the number of participants; And Automatically adjusting the bet amount of each of the plurality of participants until the predetermined bet opportunity is equal to a certain percentage of the sum of the bet amounts before the participant having the bet opportunity bets until a predetermined bet opportunity is set by the game server. Online game control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, And the seed money in the step of changing the seed money is changed to become larger as the number of participants is smaller. The method of claim 1, And changing the seed money comprises changing using a binary search method. The method of claim 1, And adjusting the bet amount includes readjusting the sum of the bet amounts calculated by the predetermined bet opportunity divided by the number of the plurality of participants. The method of claim 4, wherein The seed money in the step of changing the seed money is modified such that the bet amount of each of the plurality of participants until the predetermined betting opportunity is automatically adjusted to remain at a constant level regardless of the number of the plurality of participants. Online game control method, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, And the predetermined ratio of adjusting the bet amount is predetermined by agreement of the plurality of participants or selection of a service provider providing the game. The method of claim 1, Checking, by the game driver of the game server, whether to register each of the plurality of participants; And calculating, by the money management module of the game server, the game money amount before betting on the betting opportunity for each of the plurality of participants and the game money amount after betting. . The method of claim 1, The game server further comprises the step of proceeding to the next game with only the remaining participants except the participant who has made a request to terminate the game after the decision of the current game is in progress. The method of claim 1, And after the predetermined rule of betting, the game rule management module calculates a total bet amount according to one or more bet amounts selected by each of the plurality of participants. A recording medium having recorded thereon a computer readable program for performing the steps according to any one of claims 1 to 9. A game control system for controlling an online game in which a plurality of participants connected through a network each have a betting opportunity two or more times and then decides whether to win or lose, A seed money change module for automatically changing seed money when a participant having a first betting opportunity of the game bets according to the number of the plurality of participants; And And a game rules management module that automatically adjusts the bet amount of the plurality of participants until a predetermined betting opportunity is a percentage of the sum of the bet amounts before the participant with the betting opportunity bets. Game control system. The method of claim 11, And the game rule management module readjusts the bet amount by dividing the sum of the bet amounts until the predetermined bet opportunity by the number of participants. The method of claim 11 or 12, The seed money change module changes the seed money so that the bet amount of each of the plurality of participants until the predetermined betting opportunity that is automatically adjusted is maintained at a constant level regardless of the number of the plurality of participants. Online game control system.

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