JP2001162041A - Video game device and recording medium storing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique capable of easily gaining access to a character with a cursor and clearly displaying the reaction of the character in a video game progressed by interactive actions. SOLUTION: Reaction data are recorded for each portion of the displayed character 31. When it is judged that the cursor 32 is moved to the portion, the shape of the cursor 32 is deformed, and the reaction data are read and displayed by the depression of an operation button. The deformation of the cursor 32 is displayed in animation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique which is effective when applied to an access to a character by a cursor in a video game proceeded by an interactive operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a video game of this type, a cursor for accessing a character is displayed, and when the cursor is operated with an operation button, the cursor is animated and displayed according to the purpose. Some of them can be used.

For example, in a simulation game for breeding a character, animations such as picking up food with a cursor, feeding the lips of the character, and stroking the head of the character are displayed by operating the operation buttons. By repeating, the character grows up, and a physical relationship is achieved, so that the player gets close to the player.

[0004]

However, in a game in which a character is accessed by displaying such an animation of a cursor, an input method from an operation button is different depending on the type of access, and the operation is complicated when proceeding with the game. Had become.

The response of the character to the access by the cursor is displayed by repeating the same action for a long period of time, and the causal relationship between the input and the response is unclear for the player. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides a method of easily accessing a character by a cursor in a video game proceeding through an interactive operation and clearly displaying a reaction of the character. It is to provide the technology that can be done.

[0007]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
For the character displayed on the display means and the cursor movably displayed, the area data recording means storing area data for each part of the character, and the area data recording means for reading area data from the area data recording means. Determining means for determining whether or not the cursor is displayed in the area of the part, and when the determining means determines that the cursor is displayed in the area, the shape of the cursor is changed according to the character part of the area. A cursor display control unit for causing the operation button to be operated, an operation detection unit for detecting operation of the operation button, and an operation of the operation button detected by the operation detection unit in a state where the cursor display control unit changes the shape of the cursor. A video game device comprising: character display control means for displaying a response of the character. That.

According to this means, when it is determined that the cursor for accessing the character is within the area of any part of the character, the shape of the cursor corresponding to the part is changed. When the operation button is operated, the reaction of the character is displayed. This facilitates the operation of accessing the character with the cursor, and the character's reaction can be clearly displayed.

Here, the display means means a display device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display. The character means a person, an animal, a plant, a fancy creature, or the like that operates on the display. The part of the character means a body part such as a head, a chest, and an abdomen. The response of the character means an action for access such as rejoicing, laughing, getting angry, eating, and the like.

[0010] A second means of the present invention is the first means, wherein the cursor display control means changes the shape of the cursor by the cursor display control means, and controls the operation of the operation button by the operation detection means. When the operation is detected, the cursor is displayed as an animation.

According to this means, when the character is accessed by the cursor, the cursor is displayed as an animation and the visibility of the game can be improved.

[0012] A third means of the present invention is that, for the character displayed on the display means and the cursor displayed movably, the area data for each part of the character and the area data are read. A determining step of determining whether the cursor is displayed in the area of the part, and when the determining step determines that the cursor is displayed in the area, the shape of the cursor is changed according to the character part of the area. A cursor display control step, an operation detection step of detecting an operation of an operation button, and a state in which the operation of the operation button is detected by the operation detection step in a state where the cursor shape is changed by the cursor display control step. A character display control step of displaying a response of the character A recording medium storing.

Here, the recording medium is a CD-RO
Any recording medium such as M, DVD, game cartridge, memory card, floppy disk, magnetic disk, and magneto-optical disk can be used. Among them, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and game cartridges are particularly suitable for games. is there.

[0014]

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

[0015]

FIG. 1 shows a state in which a video game apparatus of the present invention is connected to a video display apparatus 5 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "display 5").

The game machine body 1 is provided with a CD-ROM (Compa) (not shown) under the cover 2a of the CD-ROM drive.
ct Disc-ROM) 2 is provided, and provides a game program and game data. Also, a controller 3 is connected as an external input device and a memory card 4 as an external storage device.

The display 5 is for providing display symbols output from the game machine body 1 as display images, and the speaker 6 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. On the left side of the controller 3 as viewed from the plane, there are provided direction keys 7 for up, down, left and right directions. By pressing the keys in the corresponding directions, the character can be moved in a desired direction, the cursor can be moved on the selection screen, and the like. Used. On the other hand, on the right side of the controller 3, there is a circle button 8 used for determination input, and a cross button 9 used for cancel input. In addition, the □ button 10 and the △ button 11 are used for inputting a specific command. A start button 12 is provided at the center of the controller 3 and is used for temporarily stopping or restarting the game.
Is used for screen switching and the like.

FIG. 2 shows a hardware block diagram of the video game device. The video game device has a CP
U (Central Processing Uni)
t) A control system composed of 21 and its peripheral devices, and a GPU (Graphic) for drawing in the frame buffer 28
(Processing Unit) 27 and SP for generating music, sound effects, etc.
U (Sound Processing Unit) 3
1 and the like, a CD-ROM control unit for controlling the CD-ROM 2, a communication control unit for controlling an instruction input from the controller 3 by a player and an input / output with the memory card 4, and the like.

The control system includes a CPU 21 and interrupt control and DMA (Dynamic Memory Access).
s) Peripheral device control unit 22 that controls transfer, and RAM (Random Access Me) as a main storage device
(memory) 23 and a ROM (Read) storing programs such as an operating system for managing a main storage device, a graphic system, a sound system, and the like.
Only Memory) 24.

The above graphic system is a CD-RO
An image decoder 25 for decoding the compressed and encoded image data read from M2, and an image decoder 25
GTE (Geometry Tra) that performs processing such as coordinate calculation and rendering on the image data decoded by
nsfer Engine) 26 and a GPU 27 that performs drawing such as shading, texture mapping, and raster processing based on the data calculated by the GTE 26.
A frame buffer 28 for storing an image drawn by the GPU 27, a decompression device 29 for decompressing the image data and performing digital / analog conversion,
An NTSC encoder 30 that converts the video signal into a C-system video signal and outputs it to the display 5 is provided.

The SPU 3 generates music, sound effects, and the like based on an instruction from the CPU 21.
1, a sound buffer 32 for storing waveform data and the like by the SPU 31, and a DAC (Digital) for decoding audio data reproduced by the CD-ROM device 34.
(Analog Converter) 33 and a speaker 6 for outputting the decoded data.

The CD-ROM control unit includes a CD-ROM
2 for reproducing programs, data, etc. stored in
ROM device 34 and CD for noise filtering
-DSP (CD-Digital Signal Pr)
processor 35, a decoder 36 for decoding, for example, programs and data stored with an error correction code added thereto, and a reproduction data from the CD-ROM 2 by temporarily storing reproduction data from the CD-ROM device 34. A buffer 37 for speeding up reading.
Image data and audio data reproduced and decoded by these devices are sent to a graphic system and a sound system via a bus 20, respectively.

The communication control unit includes a communication control 38 for performing bidirectional communication control with the CPU 21 via the bus 20, a controller 3 for inputting an instruction from a player, and an external storage for storing game setting data and the like. A memory card 4 is provided as a device.

Here, the video game stored in the CD-ROM 2 is a love simulation game in which a character of a photographed image is raised in love value by interactive conversation input or the like, and a love is achieved.

FIG. 3A shows a character 31 displayed on the display 5. The cursor 32 having a hand shape is moved to the character 31 with the direction keys 7 of the controller 3.
Are moved to the respective parts 33 to 36. For example, head 33
When the cursor 31 is moved to, the cursor 32 is deformed into a “hit” shape (see FIG. 3B). In this state, when the ボ タ ン button 8 of the controller 3 is pressed, the character 31 displays a hit reaction (see FIG. c)). Similarly, when the cursor 32 is moved to the chest 34, the shape of the cursor 32 changes to "touch", the abdomen 35 to "tickle" and the upper arm 36 to "tweak", and the response of the character 31 corresponding to this changes is displayed on the display 5. Is done.

The data of the part of the character 31 and the data of the cursor 32 are recorded on the above-mentioned CD-ROM 2, and FIG. 4 illustrates a conceptual structure of the data. The data is
Each character is composed of the part of the character 31, the deformable shape of the cursor 32, the reaction of the character 31, and the like. Note that a plurality of reaction data of the character 31 is recorded in the same site, and when the number of accesses to the same site exceeds the number of recorded data, the character 31 does not respond to subsequent accesses.

FIG. 5 shows a functional block diagram of this embodiment. The character part recognizing unit 52 outputs the character 31
Is read from the data recording unit 56 to recognize each part. On the other hand, the cursor position recognition unit 51 sets the display coordinate position of the cursor 32 displayed on the display 5 to G
Recognize from the coordinate calculation value of TE26. The determination unit 53 determines whether the cursor 32 is within the above-described area from the coordinate position. The cursor display control unit 54 changes the cursor to a shape corresponding to the site if the number of times of reaction display at the site is within the number of data. Here, when the operation button of the controller 3 is pressed, the character display control unit 55 reads the response data of the character 32 from the data recording unit 56 and displays it on the display 5 by image processing of the GTE 26, GPU 27, and the like.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing this. This will be described below with reference to FIG. The character part recognition unit 52 reads area data for each part of the character 31 from the data recording unit 56 (101). When the direction key 7 of the controller 3 is pressed, the cursor display control unit 54 moves and displays the cursor 32 (103). The cursor position recognizing unit 51 reads and recognizes the coordinate position of the cursor 32 that is moved and displayed. The determination unit 53 determines from the area data and the coordinate position of the cursor 32 whether the cursor position is in any part. If not, the process proceeds to step 112 (105). If (105), the cursor display control unit 54 proceeds to step 112 (106) if the number of response displays of the character 31 is not within the number of reaction data at the relevant part (106), while if it is within the number of reaction data ( 106), the cursor display control unit 54 deforms and displays the shape of the cursor 32 corresponding to the part (107), and increments the display count of the part (108). When the o button 8 of the controller 3 is pressed (109), the character display control unit 55 reads the response data of the character 31 from the data recording unit 56 (110) and displays it on the display 5 (111).
The processing of steps 102 to 111 is repeated until the display of the cursor reception screen ends (101).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the cursor is moved and displayed, and by pressing the O button at the position where the shape of the cursor is deformed, the character can be easily accessed and the reaction to the access is immediately performed. Can be displayed.

[0031]

[Embodiment 2] In this embodiment, when the O button is pressed at a character site, the cursor is animated to enhance the sense of presence of access.

FIG. 7 shows an example of animation display of the cursor 32. When the cursor 32 is moved to the head 33 of the character 31, the cursor 32 takes the shape of a goo for “hit” access, and when the す る と button 8 is pressed, the cursor 32 displays an animation of hitting. This display may be displayed by moving the cursor in a small shape so as to strike a goo-shaped cursor.

This is a flowchart of the first embodiment (see FIG. 6).
This can be realized by adding step 201 to the second embodiment, and only the parts different from the first embodiment will be described below. That is, when the character display control unit 55 receives the press of the o button 8 of the controller 3 (109), the character display control unit 55 displays the cursor in animation (2).
01).

According to this, the cursor is displayed so as to perform an access operation, and the sense of realism can be enhanced.

[0035]

According to the effects of the present invention, it is possible to provide a technique capable of easily accessing a character by a cursor in a video game proceeding through an interactive operation and displaying a character's reaction clearly.

[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 character display screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining data of a character part and a cursor shape;

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

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a character display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine main body 2a CD-ROM drive cover 3 Controller 5 Display 6 Speaker 7 Direction key group 8 ○ button 31 Character 32 Cursor 33, 34, 35, 36 Character part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An area data recording unit that stores area data for each part of the character with respect to a character displayed on a display unit and a cursor movably displayed, and area data from the area data recording unit. Reading means for determining whether the cursor is displayed in an area of any of the parts, and determining that the cursor is displayed in the area by the character part of the area when the determination means determines that the cursor is displayed in the area. Cursor display control means for changing the shape of the cursor; operation detection means for detecting operation of the operation button; and operation of the operation button by the operation detection means in a state where the cursor shape is changed by the cursor display control means. Character display control means for displaying the response of the character when detected. Ogemu apparatus. 2. The cursor display control means displays an animation of the cursor when an operation of an operation button is detected by the operation detection means in a state where the cursor shape is changed by the cursor display control means. The video game device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. For a character displayed on a display means and a cursor displayed movably, area data for each part of the character, and reading the area data so that the cursor is in an area of one of the parts. A determining step of determining whether the area is displayed in the area, and a cursor display control step of changing the shape of the cursor according to a part of the character in the area when the area is determined to be displayed in the area by the determining step; An operation detecting step of detecting an operation of an operation button; and displaying a response of the character when the operation of the operation button is detected by the operation detecting step in a state in which a cursor shape is changed by the cursor display control step. Recording medium storing program including character display control step