JP2000107464A - Video game device, and recording medium having program stored - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the reality of an event generated place on a display screen by judging the display of an event generated site by a display judging means, and also, providing an event display control means which displays the event when the presence of a relationship is judged by a relationship judging means. SOLUTION: An event display judging section 62 reads the coordinate data for an event generated area from an event data storage section 64 through an event generation coordinate reading section 63, and judges whether the data is displayed on a display 4 or not. When the data is displayed, for a relationship judging section 65, a character move-displaying section 66 which has received the depressing of a direction key of a controller 3, move-displays a character, and a distance is calculated from the coordinates for the character which are recognized by a character coordinates recognizing section 67 and coordinate values of the event generated area, and whether the distance between them is a specified value or lower, or not is judged. When the distance is the specified value or lower, an event display control section 68 reads event data from the event data storage section 64, and displays the event data on the display 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique effective when applied to a display control of an event occurrence point in a video game, particularly a role playing game.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In this type of role-playing game, a location where an event occurs is determined, and an event generally occurs when a character that satisfies conditions necessary for the occurrence of the event moves to the location. . For example, if you have a favorite of the non-player character, you can talk with the non-player character.

[0003]

However, in such a role-playing game, since the viewpoint of the screen display is determined, the display of the occurrence of an event in an object space in which a building or the like is arranged is performed by an object that obstructs the view. It is common to select a location without the character, and there is a surprising aspect that the character goes around in a shadow or the like to find a hidden event occurrence location.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of improving the realism of a location where an event occurs in a role playing game on a display screen.

[0005]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
A video game device which displays a character in an object space on a display means, advances a game while clearing an event generated by operating the character by an input command from an input means, wherein the object space is displayed on the display means. Rotation display control means for rotating display, display determination means for determining whether the event occurrence point is displayed on the display means in the object space rotated and displayed by the rotation display control means, and the character Association determination means for determining the presence or absence of association with the event occurrence point; and the display determination means determines that the event occurrence point is displayed, and that the association determination means determines that there is an association. When judged,
A video game device comprising: an event display control means for displaying the event.

According to the first means of the present invention, when a location where an event occurs is hidden behind a shadow, an approximate location is displayed by rotating the object space, and the event is associated with the location and the character to generate an event. appear.

As described above, the location where an event occurs is hidden behind a shadow or the like, and the player can find the location by rotating the object space, thereby enhancing the playability as a role playing game.

Here, the display device means a display device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display, and the input means means
Input devices such as controllers and keyboards. The character means a player character operated by the player to move on the screen. The object space means a space in which a character in which a town, a building, a dungeon, a mountain, a river, the sea, and the like are arranged moves. To rotate and display the object space means to display the image in a rotated viewpoint by rotating and converting the three-dimensional coordinate values. The event means a conversation with a non-player character, acquisition of an item, encounter with an enemy character, entry into a hidden door, and the like. The association between the character and the event occurrence location means that the character and the event occurrence location have a fixed positional relationship on the display means.

A second aspect of the present invention is the first aspect, wherein the rotation display control means determines that the event occurrence point is displayed on the display means by the display determination means. Then, the rotation display is stopped.

That is, when the rotation display is performed, the rotation is stopped at the viewpoint where the event occurrence location is displayed. As a result, the player can easily find the event occurrence location even at a narrow event viewing location sandwiched between buildings or the like, and the game can proceed smoothly.

A third means of the present invention stores a program for displaying a character in an object space on a display means, operating the character in accordance with an input command from an input means, and clearing an event that occurs and playing a game. A recording medium, wherein a rotation display control step of rotatingly displaying the object space on the display means, and a point at which the event occurs is displayed on the display means in the object space rotated and displayed by the rotation display control step. A display determination step of determining whether or not the event is displayed; an association determination step of determining whether or not the character is associated with the event occurrence point; and an event occurrence point being displayed by the display determination step. When it is determined and the association is determined to be present in the association determination step, A recording medium storing a program comprising an event display controlling step of displaying the event.

Here, the recording medium is a CD-RO
M, a game cartridge, a memory card, a floppy disk, a magnetic disk, a magneto-optical disk and any other recording media can be used. Among them, a CD-ROM and a game cartridge are particularly suitable for a game.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[0014]

FIG. 1 shows a state in which a video game apparatus according to the present invention is connected to a video display apparatus 4 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "display 4").

The game machine body 1 has a controller 3 connected thereto as an external input device, and further has a CD-ROM (C) (not shown) under a cover 2a of the CD-ROM drive.
(compact disc-ROM) 2 is provided to provide a game program and game data.

The display 4 is for providing display symbols output from the game machine body 1 as display images, and the speaker 5 is for providing audio symbols to the player as audio. A general household television receiver is used. Can be.

The controller 3 has various operation buttons. A direction key 6 is provided on the left side of the controller 3 when viewed from the plane. On the other hand, on the right side of the controller, a circle button 7, a cross button 8, a square button 9, and a triangle button 10 are arranged. In the center of the controller 3, a start button 11 and a select button 12 are provided.
Is provided. Further, an L1 button 13 is provided on the left side of the controller 3 and an R1 button 14 is provided on the right side of the controller 3.

FIG. 2 is a hardware block diagram mainly showing the game machine 1. CPU for bus 20
(Central Processing Unit)
21, DRAM (Dynamic Random Ac)
cess Memory) 22, MDEC23, GPU
(Graphic Processing Unit)
24 and the like are connected to each other. The CPU 21 has a GTE (Geometric Transfer En).
Gine) 25 is connected.

The MDEC 23 is a processor for reproducing moving images, and develops moving images read from the CD-ROM 2. The GTE 25 is a processor dedicated to graphics, and is composed of a plurality of arithmetic units that perform parallel processing, and executes coordinate conversion, rendering, and the like on image data developed by the MDEC 23 in parallel.

The GPU 24 is a processor dedicated to graphics, like the GTE 25, and is responsible for actual drawing such as shading, texture mapping, and raster processing based on the data subjected to coordinate transformation by the GTE 25. The image data obtained as a result is stored in the VRA as a buffer.
The data is sent to an expansion device 27 via an M (Video RAM) 26. The expansion device 27 expands the image data and performs digital-to-analog conversion. The image signal obtained as a result is output as RGB (Red, Green, Blue) signals, and is input to the NTSC encoder 28 as an NTSC video signal. Is output.

A ROM 29 storing a boot program is connected to the bus 20.
0 is CD-DSP (CD-Digital Signa)
lProcessor) 31, CD-ROM decoder 3
2 are connected.

The CD-DSP 31 performs noise filtering. An SRAM (Static RAM) 33 as a buffer and a mechanical controller 34 are connected to the CD-ROM decoder 32, and the decoded image data is sent to the bus 20 and the audio data is sent to the SP.
U (Sound Processing Unit) 3
5 The SPU 35 is a processor in charge of audio processing, and the DRAM 3 as a connected buffer.
6, the audio data decoded by the CD-ROM decoder 32 is decoded, and the audio data obtained as a result is converted into a DAC (Digital Analog Converter).
ter) 37 to perform digital-to-analog conversion and send it out as audio output.

An SIO (Serial) for enabling data to be transmitted bidirectionally with the controller 3 is provided on the bus 20.
l I / O Interface) 38 is connected.

Here, the video game stored in the CD-ROM 2 is a role playing game in which the game proceeds while clearing an event such as fighting an enemy character encountered by the character.

FIGS. 3 and 4 show examples of locations where events occur in this embodiment. That is, the character 51 in FIG. 3 is behind the building 52 and the building 53 and the location where the event occurs is not visible, but the non-player character 54 is displayed in the rotated display in FIG. The player can generate a conversation event by pressing the directional key 6 of the controller 3 and moving the character 51 to the position of the non-player character 54. The rotation display is rotated left when the L1 button 13 of the controller 3 is kept pressed, and is rotated right when the R1 button 14 is kept pressed. If the user stops pressing the button, the rotation display stops.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of this embodiment. The rotation display control unit 61 receives the pressing of the L1 button 13 and the R1 button 14 of the controller 3, rotates the coordinate value of the object space, and displays the coordinate value on the display 4.
The event display determination unit 62 includes the event occurrence coordinate reading unit 6
3, the coordinate data of the event occurrence location is read from the event data storage unit 64 via the event data storage unit 64, and it is determined whether the event occurrence location has been displayed on the display 4. When the event occurrence location is displayed, the association determination unit 65 determines that the character movement display unit 66 that has received the depression of the directional key 6 of the controller 3 moves and displays the character 51 and the character coordinate recognition unit 67 recognizes the character. The distance between the two is calculated from the coordinates and the coordinate value of the event occurrence location (that is, the coordinate value of the non-player character 54), and it is determined whether the distance between the two is equal to or less than a certain value. If the distance between the two is equal to or less than the predetermined value, the event display control unit 68 reads the event data from the event data storage unit 64 and displays the event data on the display 4.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing this. That is, the rotation display control unit 61 controls the controller 3
When the L1 button 13 or the R1 button 14 is pressed (step 101), coordinate rotation conversion of the object space is performed (102), and the image is displayed from the rotated viewpoint (103).
The display determination unit 62 reads the event occurrence coordinates from the event data storage unit 64 via the event coordinate reading unit 63 (104), and determines whether the event occurrence location is displayed (105). If the event occurrence location is not displayed (105), the L1 button 13 or the R1 button 1
If the button 4 has not been pressed, the process is terminated. If the button 4 has been pressed, the process returns to step 102 (107). On the other hand, if the location where the event has occurred is displayed (105), the process returns to step 102 if the L1 button 13 or the R1 button 14 is not turned off (106). Recognizes the character coordinates (108), and the association determination unit 65 calculates the distance between the event occurrence location and the character 51 (10).
9). When the distance is equal to or less than the predetermined value (110), the event display control unit 68 reads the event data from the event data storage unit 64 (111) and displays it on the display (112). On the other hand, if the distance is not less than the certain value (110), the character movement display control unit 66 receives the pressing of the direction key 6 of the controller 3 (113), and moves and displays the character (114). At this time, if the moved character deviates from the event space, the processing ends (11).
5) If within the space, return to step 108 (11)
5).

As described above, according to this embodiment,
With the event occurrence location displayed by the rotation display,
An event occurs when a character is associated with an event occurrence location, and the interest in the game can be increased by searching for an event occurrence location hidden behind a shadow.

[0029]

Second Embodiment In the first embodiment, when the L1 button 13 or the R1 button 14 of the controller 3 is pressed, the object space is rotated and displayed to display an event occurrence location. If it is narrow, the player may miss the place where the event occurred.

In the present embodiment, this problem is solved by stopping the rotation display when the event occurrence location is displayed.
That is, in the functional block diagram of FIG.
However, when the display of the event occurrence location is determined, the rotation display control unit 61 stops the rotation display.

Such display control is realized in FIG. 7 in which step 106 in the flowchart of FIG. Hereinafter, only differences from the first embodiment will be described. That is,
When the event display control unit 62 determines that the event has occurred (105), the rotation display control unit 61 stops the rotation display (201).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the rotation display is stopped when the event occurrence location is displayed, and the player can easily find the event occurrence location.

[0033]

According to the present invention, the reality on the display screen of the location where an event occurs in a role playing game can be enhanced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a video game device of the present invention is connected to a video display device.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration centered on a game machine main body.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a place where an event occurs.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a place where an event occurs.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram for explaining the embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine main body 2a CD-ROM drive cover 3 Controller 4 Display 5 Speaker 6 Direction key group 7 〇 button 8 × button 9 □ button 10 △ button 11 Start button 12 Select button 13 L1 button 14 R1 button 51 Character 54 Non-player character

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A video game device for displaying a character in an object space on a display means, operating a character according to an input command from an input means, and proceeding a game while clearing an event that occurs. Rotation display control means for rotating and displaying on the display means; display determination means for determining whether or not the event occurrence point is displayed on the display means in the object space rotated and displayed by the rotation display control means And an association determining means for determining whether or not there is an association between the character and the event occurrence point. The display determination means determines that the event occurrence point is displayed, and the association determination means Event display control means for displaying the event when it is determined that there is association. Deogemu apparatus. 2. The rotation display control means stops rotation display when the display determination means determines that the event occurrence point is displayed on the display means. The video game device according to 1. 3. A recording medium storing a program for displaying a character in an object space on a display means and operating a character in response to an input command from an input means to clear an event to be generated and proceed with a game. A rotation display control step of rotating and displaying the object space on the display means; and determining whether the event occurrence point is displayed on the display means in the object space rotated and displayed by the rotation display control step. A display determination step; an association determination step of determining whether or not the character is associated with the event occurrence point; and the display determination step determines that the event occurrence point is displayed, and When the determination step determines that the association exists, the event is displayed. Recording medium storing a program comprising an event display controlling step for.