KR20060034910A - Method for internet game - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an internet game room. According to the present invention, when at least one game room in which an Internet game competition between players is conducted is opened in a game channel, and an internet game is performed through communication between a game client and a game server installed in a user terminal of a player entering the game room, First, a guild that is a game cooperative community for channel monopoly is formed, and a first channel is set as a target channel of a siege that is a confrontation between the guilds, and the siege holding information is transmitted between the user terminals. Next, when the guild who applied for the siege holds a guild money of the standard or more, when a player belonging to the guild enters the first channel and one or more game rooms are opened in the first channel, among the opened game rooms. The player enters any one of the games for each game room. When all the games in progress in the established game room are completed, the game game for each guild is calculated so that the guild with the highest total amount monopolizes the first channel. Therefore, more competitive game play is possible between players through the siege between guilds for channel acquisition.

Siege, Channel Acquisition, Game, Guild, Blood Pledge, Alliance

Description

Internet game method {METHOD FOR INTERNET GAME}

1 is an overall configuration diagram of an internet game system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of a channel server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a detailed configuration of the authentication server, game server and guild server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4A is a screen in which a siege target channel is displayed in a channel list according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4B is a screen illustrating a state in which a siege is deployed in a siege target channel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4c is a screen showing the inside of the game room is a siege war according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4D is a screen showing the inside of a game room in which a siege war is progressed according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4E is a screen illustrating a channel owned by a specific guild after a siege is finished according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an overall flowchart of an internet game method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a reward method for a victory guild in a siege according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

 100: user terminal 200: interface server

 300: authentication server 310: authentication unit

 330: User DB 400: Channel Server

 401: channel control unit 403: channel forming unit

 405: channel status check unit 407: game room forming unit

 409: game room status checker 411: channel DB

 500: game server 510: siege manager

 511: channel setting unit 513: participation condition setting unit

 515: Participation condition confirmation part 517: Game progress part

 519: Earning Money Distribution 600: Guild Server

 610: Guild operator 630: Game participation fee confirmation unit

 650: game participation ratio allocation 670: Guild Information DB

The present invention relates to an internet game method, and more particularly, at least one game room in which an Internet game competition is played between players is opened in a game channel, and a game client and a game server installed in a user terminal of a player entering the game room are provided. The present invention relates to an internet game method of playing an internet game through communication.

Recently, with the rapid increase of the Internet, various services are provided through the Internet. In particular, the Internet game service is a service used by many users, and its market size is gradually expanding. For example, a one-stop game, such as high-stop games such as hits and card games such as poker, is a typical game service that users find a lot, and is generally provided in the form of a competitive game in which game money is exchanged in exchange for winning. .

Users access a server providing a game service to use an internet game service, and then select a game to be played through a web page provided by the server. At this time, the server displays a list of channels available to the game to the user, and when the user selects a specific channel, a list of various game rooms belonging to the selected channel is displayed. When the user selects one of the game rooms displayed on the terminal or opens a new game room by hand, the server may play a game match with another user who entered the game room in the game room that the user selected or opened. To display the game screen.

However, the above-described Internet game has a problem that the goal is achieved only by beating a game opponent who enters the same game room. In particular, when a general offline game such as poker or gostop is online based on existing offline game rules, there is a problem in that it cannot provide additional interesting elements other than the victory of the current game opponent. As a result, the game progression is formalized as the number of game uses increases, and users are easily accustomed to the game progression method, which reduces the interest of the game.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a new competitive element to the Internet game that was conducted only by the competition between users entering the game room opened in a specific game channel.

In particular, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to increase the interest of the Internet game by giving a new common goal of a specific game channel monopoly through the formation of a game community for a specific game channel monopoly and game competition between game communities.

In addition, another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to increase the sense of belonging and loyalty of the player through the process of assigning a common goal between the game community members and the distribution of revenue for the game results, resulting in an increase in the game service utilization rate.

In accordance with an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, at least one game room in which the Internet game competition between players is opened in the game channel, the game client installed in the user terminal of the player entering the game room A method of playing an internet game through communication with a game server, the method comprising: a) a guild, a game cooperative community for channel monopoly, is formed, and a first channel is set as a target channel of a siege that is a confrontation between the guilds; Transmitting to the user terminal; b) admitting a player belonging to the guild to the first channel when the guild who applied for the siege holds a guild money equal to or greater than a standard; c) when at least one game room is opened in the first channel, admitting the player to any one of the opened game rooms to play a game for each game room; And d) calculating the acquired game money for each guild when all the games in progress of the opened game room are finished so that the guild with the largest total amount monopolizes the first channel.

Hereinafter, an internet game system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, an internet game system is to provide game services to users through the Internet, and is connected to a plurality of user terminals 100 through the Internet.

The user terminal 100 is a communication device that can be connected to the Internet game system through the Internet, for example, a variety of communication devices such as wired telephone, mobile communication terminal, computer can be used, the user can conveniently and quickly through the Internet You can connect to the game system. The user terminal 100 is installed with a game client which is a game application that can communicate with an internet game system and play an internet game.

The system connected to the user terminal 100 and providing a game service to a plurality of users includes an interface server 200, an authentication server 300, a channel server 400, a game server 500, and a guild server 600. ).

The interface server 200 serves as an interface through which the user terminal 100 connects to an internet game system, and converts various pieces of information provided through each server in accordance with a communication standard to provide a plurality of user terminals 100. It receives the information transmitted from the user terminal 100 through the Internet and provides the function to each server, and generally corresponds to a web server or a swap server.

The authentication server 300 manages and performs user registration and system login. The authentication server 300 receives member information from the user terminal 100 connected through the interface server 200 in order to use the internet game system, and checks whether the user has a right to use the internet game service.

When the user selects a game to play through the interface server 200, the channel server 400 provides the user with a selected game related channel and a list of game rooms for each channel. Therefore, the user may select a channel that he / she wants to play the game and a specific game room belonging to the channel through the channel list and the game room list provided by the channel server 400.

At this time, when the user selects a game to be played through the interface server 200, the interface server 200 drives a game client installed in the user terminal 100, and the user terminal 100 is driven by the driven game client. The channel server 400 is connected via the Internet. Therefore, the channel server 400 and the interface server 200 do not always need to be connected when the user terminal 100 is connected to the channel server 400.

The guild server 600 operates and manages a guild formed as a game cooperation community for a specific channel monopoly, and manages information of guild players. At this time, the information of the players belonging to the guild includes information such as the game money of each player and the contribution of each player when constructing the guild money, that is, the ratio of game money provided by each player in the total amount of the guild money.

The game server 500 proceeds with a siege that is a game match between guilds, grants siege target channel exclusive rights to the winning guild, and more detailed description will be described later.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the channel server 400 includes a channel control unit 401, a channel forming unit 403, a channel state checking unit 405, a game room forming unit 407, and a game room state checking unit ( 409) and a channel database 411.

The channel forming unit 403 forms a channel for each game, and the game room forming unit 407 opens a game room in the game-specific channel, and performs a game room opening operation according to a user's request.

The channel status checking unit 405 checks the operation status of each channel to check whether a game room is opened in the channel of each game, the number of opened game rooms, etc. The game room status checking unit 409 proceeds with the game in each game room. Check the status of each game room, including status, game participants, and game spectator status.

The channel control unit 401 provides the user with a list of channels for each game, and if the user selects a specific channel, provides the list of game rooms opened for each channel, and upon request of the user, the game room forming unit 407 opens a new game room in the channel. Open it. In addition, the channel control unit 401 checks whether the channel state checking unit 405 and the game room state checking unit 409 check whether the game room in the channel is opened and the game progress state in each game room. Pass in 500.

The channel database 411 stores game related data opened in each channel list as well as channel related data for each game.

For example, the channel database 411 may include a channel list table which stores a list of channels and admission conditions (participant user level) for each channel, a game room list table which stores a list of game rooms included in each channel, It may include a state table for each channel and a game room state table that stores each game room state information. Here, the game room list may store the general information about the opened game room, for example, the identification number of the game room, the number of participants, and the like. The state information for each channel may include information on whether or not to open a game room for each channel and information on the number of game rooms established. The state information of the game room may include the title of the game room, the number of participants, the game progress status, and information on each participant.

 As shown in FIG. 3, the authentication server 300 includes an authentication unit 310 and a user database 330.

The authentication unit 310 performs member registration and login, and the user database 330 stores information about a user who has registered as a system member. The authentication server 300 allows a user to input information on a field of interest to the user when registering, and accordingly, the user database 330 corresponds to a password, name, social security number, gender, age, and contact information corresponding to the user ID. Personal information such as the user's personal information, and personal information such as fields of interest and hobbies of the user are stored.

The authentication server 300 permits the use of a game service when information including an ID, a password, etc. input by a user connected to the system matches information stored in the user database 330.

Next, the user selects a specific game to play through the interface server 200 and accesses the channel server 400, and selects a desired game channel from the channel list suggested by the channel server 400. The user enters a desired game room among the game rooms belonging to the selected channel or opens a new game room.

The game server 500 includes a siege manager 510 for game progression, and the siege manager 510 includes a channel setting unit 511, a participation condition setting unit 513, a participation condition checking unit 515, and a game. And a progression unit 517 and an acquisition money distribution unit 519.

The channel setting unit 511 sets a game channel in which guild wars are developed through a siege battle, and causes the channel server 400 to display a siege target channel (hereinafter, referred to as a 'first channel'), so that siege play is desired. Allows the user to access the siege target channel and enjoy the game. The channel setting unit 511 may change the first channel periodically or randomly, and the change time may be modified in various ways.

Participation condition setting unit 513 sets a siege participation conditions to limit the guild game participation eligibility to a certain criterion or more. In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention, the amount of guild money accumulated through individual game money accumulation of members belonging to the guild is set as a siege participation condition.

Participation condition setting unit 513 can be set to change the guild money amount set as the participation condition periodically or randomly, and the guild money amount, as well as the number of members who contributed to the guild money accumulation, the number of members belonging to the guild, the siege participation history, etc. Participation conditions can also be set. For example, based on a game result of each guild's siege game, the ranking of game results based on game grades, air holes, and odds rate for each guild may be calculated, and the siege participation may be allowed only for guilds having a predetermined rank or higher. Alternatively, you can grant a siege to a certain number of guilds in order of guild order.

The participation condition checking unit 515 determines whether the guild that wants to participate in the siege matches the participation qualification criteria set by the participation condition setting unit 513, and determines whether to participate in the siege for the guild applied for participation. For example, receiving information from the guild server 600, which will be described later, on whether or not the guild applied for participation has a guild money set as a participation condition, the guild having a guild money set as a participation condition is eligible to participate. Grant.

The participation condition check unit 515 allows the channel server 400 to access the first channel only for the guild members who are entitled to participate, and to block access to the first channel of the unauthorized guild members. do.

The game progressing unit 517 advances the confrontation game in each game room opened in the first channel. For example, in the case of a poker game, players entering the game room can play the game according to a predetermined poker game rule.

At this time, if there is a player who additionally enters the game room after the start of the game or exceeds a predetermined game player quorum, the game progress unit 517 sets the additional entrance player as the spectator. The game progress unit 517 transmits a game progress screen between other players to the game client of the user terminal 100 of the player set as the spectator.

Therefore, the game progression unit 517 prevents the confusion of the game progress caused by the user who enters late or exceeds the quorum, and the user who is set as the spectator cannot directly participate in the game, but sees the game progress directly. To help.

In addition, the game progress unit 517 may display a game progress display screen (hereinafter, referred to as a “first display board”) between players in each guild in another game room in the current game room. In particular, in the case of a siege game, the game results of individual guild members in each game room opened in the first channel is reflected as the game result of the siege between guilds, the demand for information on the game situation in the other game room is high. Therefore, the user can obtain information about the game situation between each guild member in the other game room in addition to the game room where he or she is currently entering the game play or watching.

In this case, the game progress unit 517 may display not only the situation in the other game room but also a screen summarizing the game progress in the game room that is currently entering (hereinafter referred to as a 'second display board'). As a result, spectators who arrive late can easily understand the game progress.

In addition, the game progress unit 517 causes a game money support request button (hereinafter, referred to as an SOS button) to appear on each game progress screen. When the game money is insufficient during the game, the player can press the SOS button to enter the game room as a member of the same guild and request help from other users who are watching the game.

At this time, information such as the fact of the request of the help of the game player and the ID of the game player who requested the help may be displayed on the second display board, and the user who is the spectator may support the player who requested the help of his own game money.

That is, the game progress unit 517 may display not only the SOS button but also a game money support button (hereinafter referred to as a support button) on each game progress screen. When the spectator selects the support button after checking the SOS request of the member of the same guild, some of the game money of the spectator is supported by the game money of the corresponding player in the game. At this time, even if there is no SOS request, it is of course possible to support the game money by selecting the support button. At this time, the support button may be displayed on the screen in various ways, or may be configured to enter the support amount directly by the observer.

Game progress unit 517 is a final completion of the siege between the guild for the first channel acquisition when all the games in each game room based on the information received from the game room status check unit 409 of the channel server 400 To judge. And, after the end of the siege of the guild participating in the siege check the final guild money. At this time, the last held guild money has the most guild as the winning guild to have exclusive rights to the first channel. The monopoly on the first channel is maintained for a period of time, and the siege on the first channel monopoly can be resumed periodically.

On the other hand, when the game progress unit 517 receives the information that there is no game room opened in the first channel from the channel status check unit 405 of the channel server 400 after the start of the siege, open the game room in the first channel first A player's guild may be set as a Siege Victory Guild.

Acquisition money distribution unit 519 redistributes the guild money obtained from the opponent guild member in the siege to the guild members. At this time, redistribution is based on the contribution of each member in guild money for siege participation.

For example, if A guild's guild money is 600,000 won and A guild member earns 200,000 won as guild money, the contribution of A can be calculated as 1/3. In this case, one-third of the guild money obtained through the siege participation may be distributed to the game money of the member pack.

At this time, the contribution of each member to the game in the siege is also considered in redistributing the guild money.

For example, if a member pack is a combat guild member who participates in a siege battle against an opposing guild member, the contribution of the pack may be calculated as 1/3 + alpha. In addition, if A combat guild member A is defeated in a siege battle, A contribution can be calculated as 1/3-alpha.

The guild server 600 includes a guild operator 610, a channel dealer fee check unit 630, a dealer fee distributor 650, and a guild information database 670.

The guild information database 670 stores information about active guilds. More specifically, the guild information database 670 includes the IDs of members belonging to each guild, individual game money, reserves for guild money, contributions to the guild, whether or not combat guild members, game activity history, game ratings, and the like. Information on guild money for each guild and histories of histories in siege battles is stored.                     

The guild operator 610 operates / manages a guild, a game community for obtaining a specific channel, based on the information stored in the guild information database 670, supports a general function for operating a game community, and a guild information database 670. Update the information stored in.

The game participation fee checking unit 630 periodically receives predetermined game participation fee related information charged for the game played in the first channel from the game server 500 and confirms it.

When the first channel is monopolized by a specific guild, game participation fees are charged to game participants for games that are conducted by opening a game room in the first channel when a siege is not held. The game participation fee is provided to the guild who has an exclusive right to the first channel by winning the siege, and the game participation fee checking unit 630 may check the total game participation fee generated from the first channel for one week every Monday.

The game participation cost distribution unit 650 receives the game participation fee related information generated for a certain period from the game participation fee checking unit 630 and redistributes it to individual game money of members of the guild. At this time, the game participation cost distribution criteria may be set based on the contribution of individual members to the guild money accumulation as described above.

Hereinafter, a detailed screen of the internet game system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4A to 4E.

As shown in FIG. 4A, when a specific channel is set as a siege target channel between guilds, the channel server 400 displays the siege target channel on the screen of the user terminal 100.

Next, as shown in FIG. 4B, when a member of a guild authorized to participate in a siege enters a siege target channel, information about other game rooms that are currently opened and waiting for game participation is displayed on the screen. do.

At this time, unlike the game room and waiting display that is displayed as a checkerboard when entering a specific game channel, the siege target channel is formed into a specific country or city, and the opened game room may be formed as a battle occurring in each region. As a result, the user may experience interest similar to a normal siege for a specific regional battle from a channel acquisition battle.

As shown in FIG. 4C, the user opens and cues an opened game room or a new game room to play game play with opponent guild members. At this time, the guild members who enter after the game play or enter the quorum are displayed on the screen as a spectator and can watch the game progress directly.

At this time, as shown in Figure 4d, the screen is provided with the first sign (A) or the second sign (B) can easily grasp the game progress in the other game room or the current game room.

As shown in FIG. 4E, when the game in all game rooms ends and the siege turns out to be the victory of a particular guild, the channel is set to be owned by the victorious guild for a period of time, so that all game rooms opened in the channel have a victory guild. Indication markers may appear. And the game participation fee charged for the game in each game room is paid to the winning guild and redistributed to its members.

5 and 6 will be described in detail the entire flow of the Internet game method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, a siege target channel for holding a siege is set, and siege holding information is transmitted to the user terminal 100 connected to the game server 500. At this time, the siege held information may be provided by the interface server 200 that the user first accesses to access the Internet game system (S100).

When the siege participation application of a specific guild from the user terminal 100 is received through the interface server 200 or directly to the game server 500, the game server 500 is based on the information stored in the guild server 600. It is checked whether the guild has a guild money above a certain standard or a predetermined game rank as a qualification for participation in the siege (S103).

For example, the game server 500 allows the guild to participate in the siege of the guild, if the guild has applied for the guild money more than a certain standard. The game server 500 allows the channel server 400 to enter players in the siege target channel when the siege is held (S104 and S105).

The player entering the channel opens a game room or a new game room and proceeds to play a game with a player belonging to another guild (S107, S109, S111).

The game server 500, when all the game progress in the established game room is finished, the end of the siege, calculate the holding guild money of each guild participating in the siege, the final holding guild money to the most guild to win the guild Decide In addition, the game server 500 grants an exclusive ownership of the corresponding channel to the victory guild for a predetermined period of time (S113 to S117).

At this time, when the game server 500 receives the information from the channel server 400 that the game room opened in the siege target channel does not exist, the game server 500 enters the channel and opens the game room for the first time. One guild may be set as a victory guild to grant exclusive ownership to the corresponding channel (S107 and S119).

After the siege ends, the winning guild distribution process between the guild member for the game money and the game participation fee obtained through the siege starts, it will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 6, when a particular guild wins a siege to have exclusive rights to the siege target channel and obtains a predetermined game money from the siege, distribution between guild members for the acquisition money is started (S200).

The earned money is distributed based on each guild member's contribution to the guild money composition. For example, as described above, if the player group belonging to the guild A has earned 200,000 won out of 600,000 won in the guild money, the contribution of the box may be set to 1/3. This contribution can be adjusted based on a variety of other information. For example, if A participates in a siege and wins a siege as a combat guild member against an opposing guild member, A's contribution can be adjusted to improve by 1/3. Alternatively, if the battle guild member defeats in a siege, the contribution of the armor may be adjusted lower than 1/3 (S201, S203).                     

The contribution of the guild member may be regularly updated and stored in the guild server 600, and the game server 500 may distribute the acquired game money obtained from the siege war based on the stored guild member's contribution information. Alternatively, it may be calculated and used as necessary by the game server 500.

In addition, the guild winning the siege will receive the game participation fee incurred in the channel during the period of granting exclusive rights to the channel, and the game participation fee is redistributed to the guild members.

The game participation fee may be settled at predetermined predetermined periods and distributed to the guild members, and the distribution criterion is the same as the above-mentioned acquisition game money distribution. In other words, the game participation fee is redistributed based on the contribution of the guild member to the guild money composition or the contribution adjusted according to the game result (S205 to S209).

As described above is merely an embodiment of the present invention, various other modifications may be made to matters obvious to those skilled in the art. For example, the above description is based on the case where the game server 500 and the guild server 600 are separately provided, but the guild server 600 may be provided as a module in the game server 500 and operated. My various functional blocks, of course, can be separated or integrated in many ways. The scope of the present invention includes all the matters to be interpreted as equivalent and description of the claims based on the claims described below.

As described above, according to the present invention, a new competitive element is provided for an existing Internet game which was performed only by confrontation between users entering a game room opened in a specific game channel.

Users have a new common goal for game channel monopoly by forming a game community for a particular game channel monopoly and through game competition between game communities. Thus, users will have a new interest in existing Internet games.

In addition, active exchange of information is achieved to achieve common goals among game community members, and through the distribution of revenue for game results, users can increase their loyalty to the game and the game community. As a result, game service utilization may increase overall.

Claims (1)

In the method of the Internet game through the communication between the game server and the game server installed in the user terminal of the player enters the game room, at least one game room in which the Internet game competition between the players proceeds, a) a guild that is a game cooperative community for channel monopoly is formed, and a first channel is set as a target channel of the siege that is a confrontation between the guilds, and the siege holding information is transmitted between the user terminals; b) admitting a player belonging to the guild to the first channel when the guild who applied for the siege holds a guild money equal to or greater than a standard; c) when at least one game room is opened in the first channel, admitting the player to any one of the opened game rooms to play a game for each game room; And and d) calculating the acquired game money for each guild so that the guild with the greatest total amount monopolizes the first channel when all the games in progress in the established game room are finished.

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