JP2001212378A - Video game device and recording medium storing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique capable of reflecting the personality of a player on a player character in a love simulation game. SOLUTION: The personality of the player is diagnosed, the words of the player character are changed by the personality pattern of the diagnostic result, and the favorite saying by the personality pattern is inserted.

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 the setting of the character of a character displayed on a display screen of a video game, especially a love simulation game.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a romance simulation game of this type, a player operates a player character to communicate mainly with a non-player character, that is, a heterosexual character through conversation, and achieves a romance by increasing the degree of affection of the heterosexual character. Things are common.

[0003] In this conversation, both lines are displayed on the conversation screen. Regarding the line of the player character, a desired one can be selected from options, and the degree of affection of the opposite character to the player character increases / decreases by this selection. It has become. The player empathizes as if he / she is a player character, and is delighted with the movement of the opposite sex character.

[0004]

However, in such a romance simulation game, the player character is set to have such a character as to be accepted by many players, and acts based on this character. In some cases, the player character may feel uncomfortable with the player character and may not be able to enter the emotion.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of reflecting a player's character to a player character in a love simulation game.

[0006]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
In a video game device for displaying a conversation between a player character and a non-player character on a display means, a character diagnosis means for diagnosing the character of a player operating the player character, and a character diagnosed by the character diagnosis means, A video game apparatus comprising: a speech conversion unit for converting a speech of a conversation of a player character; and a display control unit for displaying the speech converted by the speech conversion unit.

According to the first means, since the dialogue of the player character is converted in accordance with the character of the diagnosed player, the familiarity with the player character is increased, and the emotional transfer to the game is facilitated. Can be.

[0008] Here, the display means means a display device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display. What is a player ’s personality?
It refers to optimistic, inner, and aggressive mental tendencies.

The second means of the present invention is characterized in that, in said first means, there is provided a dictionary means for storing a standard word contained in the dialogue and a personalized word for said standard text, The means retrieves a standard word contained in the dialogue of the conversation from the dictionary means and converts the word into a character string corresponding to the character diagnosed by the character diagnosis means.

[0010] According to the second means, the dialogue of the player character is changed and displayed according to the character, and the player's affinity can be enhanced.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, there is provided a habit recording means for storing a habit of each character,
The speech conversion means inserts a habit corresponding to the character diagnosed by the personality diagnosis means into the speech.

[0012] According to the third means, the character of the player character becomes clear, and it is possible to promote the transfer of emotions to the game.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium storing a program for displaying a conversation between a player character and a non-player character on a display means, wherein the character for diagnosing the character of the player operating the player character is provided. A program comprising a diagnosis step, a speech conversion step of converting speech of the player character's conversation according to the character diagnosed by the personality diagnosis step, and a display control step for displaying the speech converted by the speech conversion step. This is the recording medium on which the data is stored.

Here, the recording medium is a CD-RO
M, a game cartridge, a memory card, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a magnetic disk, a magneto-optical disk, and any other recording medium can be used.
D-ROMs and game cartridges are preferred.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a state in which the video game device of the present invention is connected to a video display device 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, a program 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 player character is operated and a love with a heterosexual character is achieved by an event such as a conversation.

Hereinafter, the game contents of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 shows a player information input screen displayed at the start of the game. On this screen, the player's name, date of birth, blood type, and gender are selected and input with the cursor 61. Here, the name and the date of birth are input one by one with the character cursor 63 from the input character list 62 at the bottom of the screen, and the end 64 is selected at the end of the selection.
Choose

FIG. 4 shows an example of a character diagnosis question screen displayed after the player information is input on the player information input screen (see FIG. 3). The questions are randomly arranged in five for each personality pattern, and for each question, "Yes"
Cursor 61 from "No" or "None"
To select. The answer of "yes" is accumulated for each personality pattern, and the personality pattern in which the accumulation is the largest and the accumulation is equal to or more than the set number is diagnosed as the personality of the player.

FIG. 5 shows an example of accumulation for each personality pattern answered on the personality diagnosis screen (see FIG. 4). In this example, since the accumulation of the optimistic character is the largest and exceeds the set number 3, this is set as the character pattern of the player. If all the sums are 3 or less, the pattern is the standard character pattern.

A player information input screen (see FIG. 3)
Although horoscopes and blood type personality fortune-telling may be added based on the information input in step (1), they are not included in the gist of the present invention, and will not be described.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a conversation screen between a player character 71a having a standard personality pattern and a non-player character 72 which is a non-player character. The player may select the player character 7 for the opposite character 72.
1a from the conversation selection window 73 to the cursor 6
Select with 1. FIG. 7 shows an example of a conversation screen with a heterosexual character 72 when the player character 71b in the same scene has an optimistic personality pattern. The ending of the dialogue of the player character 71b is changed from "do" to "do" in FIG. 6, and "wa" is inserted in the speech balloon. Similarly, FIG. 8 shows a conversation screen with a heterosexual character 72 when the player character 71c in the same scene has an internal personality pattern. In this example, the ending of the dialogue of the player character 71c is changed from “do” to “do” in FIG. 6, and “domo” is inserted in the speech balloon. These inflections are stored in a dictionary shown in FIG. 9, and the words of the standard character pattern are converted by the dictionary. In addition, it is determined whether or not the habit is to be inserted by using a random number. When the habit is to be inserted, the habit is read from the habit table shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 is a functional block diagram of the present embodiment. The player information input unit 81 reads the player information input screen data from the screen data storage unit 82, displays the read data on the display 5, and inputs player information in response to depression of an operation button of the controller 3. The personality diagnosis unit 83
The personality diagnosis screen data is read from the screen data storage unit 82 and displayed on the display 5, and when the operation button of the controller 3 is pressed, the number of “Yes” for the questions for each personality pattern is accumulated. If there is a personality pattern with the largest cumulative value and three or more, the character pattern is determined, and if not, a standard personality pattern is determined. The speech changing unit 84 reads the speech data from the speech data storage unit 85, and
6. The converted ending is read from No. 6 and the ending is searched from the dialogue. If the ending is present in the dialogue, the ending is converted to the ending corresponding to the character pattern described above. Further, the random number is read from the random number section 87, and it is determined whether or not the habit is to be inserted. When the habit is to be inserted, the habit of the insertion table 88 is read and inserted into the speech. The dialogue display unit 89 displays the converted dialogue and habit on the display 5.

FIG. 12 and FIG. 13 show this in a flow chart. The player information input unit 81 reads the player information input screen data from the screen data storage unit 82 (101), and displays the player information input screen on the display 5 (102). When the input of the player information is completed by pressing the operation button of the controller 3 (10
3) The character diagnosis unit 83 reads the character diagnosis screen data from the screen data storage unit 82 (104) and displays it on the display 5 (105). When an input is made by pressing the operation button of the controller 3 (106), the number of answers of "Yes" is accumulated for each question for each personality pattern (107). The processing from step 106 is repeated until the input is completed for all the questions.
If this is the case (109), the character pattern is determined (110). On the other hand, if the maximum accumulation is 3 or less, (10
9), a standard character pattern is determined (111).

The speech conversion unit 84 includes a speech data storage unit 85
Is read (112), and if it is a standard character pattern (113), the process proceeds to step 121. on the other hand,
If it is other than the standard character pattern (113), the conversion dictionary 8
The converted ending data is read from No. 6 (114), and the ending is retrieved from the dialog (115). If the ending is (1
16), the ending is converted (117). Also, the random number part 87
(118), and determines whether or not to insert a habit. If it is to be inserted (119), the habit table 88 is read.
(120). The speech display unit 89 displays the speech that has been subjected to the ending conversion or the speech as it is, and if the habit is inserted, on the display 5 (1).
21). The processing from step 112 is repeated until the game ends (122).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the dialogue of the player character changes according to the result of the diagnosis made by the character diagnosis of the player, and the player can increase the familiarity with the player character.

Note that, for example, a character diagnosis of the lover of the player may be performed, and the result may be reflected in the dialogue of the opposite character. Further, attributes such as the ability and appearance of the player character may be set based on the character diagnosis result. Further, the name of the player input on the player information input screen may be used as the name of the player character. Further, the dialogue may be output as voice from a speaker. Further, the personality diagnosis may be performed using a portable child device connectable to the video game device.

[0036]

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a technique capable of reflecting a player's character to a player character in a love simulation game.

[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 player information input screen;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a personality diagnosis screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining personality patterns and accumulation.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conversation screen.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conversation screen.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conversation screen.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conversion dictionary.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a habit table.

FIG. 11 is a functional block diagram for explaining the embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 13 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 5 Display 7 Direction key group 8 ○ button 61 Cursor 62 Input character list 71a, 71b, 71c Player character 72 Heterogeneous character 73 Conversation selection window

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A video game device for displaying a conversation between a player character and a non-player character on a display means, wherein a character diagnosis means for diagnosing a character of a player who operates the player character, and a diagnosis made by the character diagnosis means A video game device, comprising: speech conversion means for converting speech in the conversation of the player character according to a given character; and display control means for displaying the speech converted by the speech conversion means. 2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising: dictionary means for storing a standard word contained in the dialogue and a personalized word for the standard text, wherein the dialogue converting means comprises a standard text included in the dialogue dialogue. 2. The video game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character string is searched for from the dictionary means and converted into a character-specific word corresponding to the character diagnosed by the character diagnosis means. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a habit recording unit that stores a habit of each character, wherein the speech conversion unit inserts a habit corresponding to the character diagnosed by the personality diagnosis unit into the speech. A video game device as described. 4. A recording medium storing a program for displaying a conversation between a player character and a non-player character on a display means, wherein a character diagnosis step of diagnosing a character of a player operating the player character; A recording medium storing a program comprising: a speech conversion step of converting speech of the player character's conversation according to the character diagnosed in the step; and a display control step for displaying the speech converted in the speech conversion step.