JP2002315970A - Virtual trading card medium, game method, and its control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To virtualize a trading card, trade among foreign countries, and enhance the speed and activate trading card purchase/sale and exchange. SOLUTION: The virtual trading card medium using a computer network 1 with the trading card set to a virtual medium and taking a form of the trading card is managed by an administrator A having servers 2 and 3 connected to the computer network 1, and members C, D, and E having a computer connected to the computer network 1 and registered in the server of the administrator A. This method enables a transaction such as purchasing/selling and exchanging a virtual trading card medium B among the members C, D, and E and a game based on an individual rule and the whole of them is controlled by the server.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention belongs to a technical field related to a virtual medium for expressing a trading card on a computer network in a pseudo manner and a management method thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The trading card market has been expanding year by year, and in recent years, with the advent of trading card games with added game elements, the growth has been further spurred.

Conventionally, trading cards have been sold using a medium such as paper that actually exists, and trading (card exchange) and games have been performed in the real world.

[0004]

When the above-described conventional trading card medium is used, in order to perform trading, users actually meet and exchange cards or transport cards to each other. The trouble of doing it occurs. The same applies to a case where users play a game using trading cards.

[0005] The present invention enables trading and games through a computer network as a member by using a medium as a substitute for a trading card, and furthermore, a single virtual trading system for promoting foreign countries' trading and games. Provided are a virtual trading card medium, a game method, and a management system for realizing the development of a new market by enabling trading and exchange as a commodity common to the world by making the display language of the card medium correspond to a plurality of languages. That is the task.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a virtual trading card and a management system thereof according to the present invention employ the following means.

[0007] The object of the present invention is to provide a trading card in the form of a trading card using a computer network, an administrator having a server connected to the computer network, and a computer connected to the computer network. The present invention is achieved by a virtual trading card medium which is operated by members registered in the server, and is capable of performing transactions and games by arbitrary trading and exchange between members.

[0008] According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the virtual trading card medium of the first aspect, the language visualized and displayed through the screen of the computer corresponds to the languages of a plurality of countries. This is achieved by a virtual trading card medium characterized in that a display language can be selected.

[0009] According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the virtual trading card medium of the first or second aspect, the member who owns the virtual trading card medium has a member on a server connected to a computer network. And the related information is managed on the server.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the virtual trading card medium according to any one of the first to third aspects, individual game rules are provided according to types of product titles. A game based on the game rules is provided from the server of the administrator to the computer provided by the member, and the member can use the virtual trading card medium possessed by the member managed by the server in the game, and This is achieved by a game method characterized in that a game can be played by a plurality of players through a computer network.

[0011] According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the virtual trading card medium according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the member can be arbitrarily disposed of and is disposed of by the member. The virtual trading card medium is held at a dump site prepared on the server of the administrator, and the member can freely acquire the virtual trading card medium placed at the dump site free of charge. Achieved.

[0012] In these management systems described above, the form and environment of the computer provided by each member may be different.

[0013]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The operating means of the present embodiment is suitable for using a computer network composed of the Internet, and the administrator provides the sales of virtual trading card media and the associated member service, and the advertisement revenue using the network. And is operated by profits from the sale of virtual trading card media.

As shown in FIG. 1, the present embodiment is operated by a manager A, a virtual trading card B which is a virtual trading card medium sold by the manager A, and members C, D, and E. You. The manager A sells the virtual trading card B to the members C, D, and E. The members C, D, and E obtain member qualifications through registration on the premise of providing personal information determined by the administrator A.

The manager A, the virtual trading card B, and the members C, D, and E are managed by the hardware configuration shown in FIG. That is, the administrator A has a web server 2 connected to the computer network 1 and a database server 3 connected to the web server 2, and members C, D, and E have computer terminals 7, 8, 9 connected to the computer network 1, respectively. It has.

Online software provided by the administrator A is used for the computer terminals 7, 8, and 9.
With this online software, members C, D, E
Can browse (sell and exchange) the virtual trading card B possessed through the screens of the computer terminals 7, 8, and 9;
Services such as games.

The member table 4, the card table 5, and the entity data 6 of the card are connected to the database server 3 of the administrator A. These data will be described.

The member table 4 mainly holds member IDs and personal information of members C, D, and E, and deck information described later.

The card table 5, as shown in FIG.
The information of the virtual trading card B sold by the manager A is stored in units of one card, and the breakdown is the card type I
D, a holder identification ID, and extended information. The card type ID is for identifying the type of the card.
It becomes link information to the entity data 6 of the card. The owner identification ID indicates who owns the card.
The extended information is mainly used for extended purposes such as recording the history of the card holder and recording a memo.

The entity data 6 of the card is the entity of the virtual trading card B including the image data of the card, the notation language data, the game rules, etc., as shown in FIG. , Whereas the actual data 6 of the card exists by the number of types of all the cards. The purchase of virtual trading card B by members C, D, and E in the present embodiment will be described.

The virtual trading card B is a web server 2 provided by the manager A, in which all of the types of merchandise titles selected at random by the number and the distribution rate determined by the merchandise title are collected as one pack. More sold through computer network 1. At this time, the virtual trading card B to be sold as a product is registered in the card table 5 of the database server 3 with the owner identification ID as the manager A.

The members C, D, and E can purchase the virtual trading card B by the payment method determined by the manager A.
For the purchased virtual trading card B, the holder identification ID registered in the card table 5 is rewritten to the purchaser. As an example, if member C purchases one pack of virtual trading card B containing 60 sheets,
The data of the 60 virtual trading cards B registered in the card table 5 are rewritten with the holder identification ID as the member C.

The virtual trading card B purchased by the members C, D and E is stored in the card table 5 as shown in FIG.
Of all the cards registered in the list, a card having the same member and the holder identification ID is determined as a possession card.

The members C, D, and E can trade (exchange) with other members using the virtual trading card B possessed by each of them. Members C, D, E
Trading of the virtual trading card B will be described.

The trading of the virtual trading card B by the members C, D and E is performed in the form shown in FIG. That is, the members C, D, and E can publish the trading card B provided by each of the members on the Internet site prepared by the manager A, the exchange conditions thereof, etc., search for a partner who meets the conditions, and negotiate. When the negotiation is established, the web server 2 of the manager A confirms the negotiation and rewrites the holder identification ID of the card table 5 to complete the trading.

For example, when trading is performed between the member C and the member E, the virtual trading card B that the member C trades to the member E is transmitted to the member E by the holder identification ID registered in the card table 5. Is rewritten as Conversely, for the virtual trading card B that the member E trades to the member C, the owner identification ID registered in the card table 5 is rewritten to the member C, and the trading is completed.

The trading shown in the present embodiment is
Virtual trading card B between members C, D and E
Is transferred in the database server 3 of the administrator A. That is, members C, D, E
There is no direct data transfer or other exchange between the computer terminals 7, 8, and 9 provided in.

Such a management system for the virtual trading card B prevents the virtual trading card B from being duplicated or counterfeited, and makes it possible to sell the virtual trading card B as a product without any problem. Administrator A
Provides the members C, D, and E not only with the sale of the virtual trading card B, but also with a place where they can play a game using the virtual trading card B.

The game using the virtual trading card B may be basically the same as a normal trading card game, and the game rules are based on the product title. A game method using the virtual trading card B will be described assuming a form of a general one-on-one competitive trading card game.

In order to play a game, members C, D, and E, who are players, combine a plurality of virtual trading cards B possessed by each player based on the number of cards determined by the game rules, and form a virtual trading card B called a deck.
Build a bunch of

The construction and editing of the deck are performed using the above-mentioned online software provided by the manager A. As the virtual trading card B that members C, D and E can use for deck construction, only the virtual trading card B recognized as possessed card by the method shown in FIG. 5 described above can be used, and members C, D and E can construct the deck. Each of the decks is held as deck information in the member table 4.

The members C, D, and E can play a game in the form shown in FIG. 7 using the above-mentioned deck. That is,
The members C, D, and E can log in to the web server 2 using the online software, and can play a game in agreement with the opponent who is also logged in.

The language display of the virtual trading card B by the online software can be arbitrarily changed by the members C, D and E from among the languages of the countries to which the virtual trading card B corresponds. is there.

The notation language data of the virtual trading card B is included in the card entity data 6 in the database server 3, as shown in FIG. 4, and corresponds to languages of a plurality of countries. As a result, even if the opponent is an opponent in a different language, the notation content of the card can be easily grasped.

As with the normal trading card, as the virtual trading card is repeatedly purchased, some cards become unnecessary due to duplication of the same card. In the present embodiment, a dumping site is provided in which members C, D, and E can use such virtual trading card B in common for free.

That is, the members C, D, and E can dispose of the unnecessary virtual trading card B at the speculative place prepared by the manager A, as shown by the dotted line in FIG.
In addition, virtual trading card B disposed of at the speculation ground
Members may obtain it for free.

The members C, D, and E access the speculation site through an Internet site prepared by the administrator A. The virtual trading card B placed at the dump site
Is the owner identification I registered in the card table 5
D means the state rewritten as a dump site.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention, a virtual trading card medium as a substitute for a trading card and its management system enable the virtual trading card medium to be sold as a product, and members can directly meet each other. There is an effect that a trading or a game can be performed between a plurality of members through a computer network without the need.

Further, according to the present invention, when one virtual trading card medium is treated as a product, there is an effect that fraud such as forgery can be prevented and security can be ensured.

Further, according to the present invention, the display language of one virtual trading card medium can be made to correspond to a plurality of languages, and the virtual trading card medium can be handled as a globally common product.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing an external appearance of an operating means according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram for realizing FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of a card table in the database server of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing contents of entity data of a card in the database server of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a virtual trading card holder identification unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing trading means of the virtual trading card in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a game method in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Computer network 2 ... Web server 3 ... Database server 4 ... Member table 5 ... Card table 6 ... Card entity data 7, 8, 9 ... Computer terminal A ... Administrator B ... Virtual trading card C, D, E ... Member

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A computer which is in the form of a trading card using a computer network and is operated by an administrator having a server connected to the computer network and a member registered in the server having a computer connected to the computer network. A virtual trading card medium characterized in that members can freely trade and exchange and play games between members. 2. The virtual trading card medium according to claim 1, wherein the languages visualized and displayed through a computer screen correspond to languages of a plurality of countries, and the display language can be arbitrarily selected by a member. Trading card medium. 3. The virtual trading card medium according to claim 1, wherein the member who is the owner of the virtual trading card medium is associated on a server connected to a computer network, and associates the relevant information. A management system, wherein the management is performed on the server. 4. The virtual trading card medium according to claim 1, wherein an individual game rule is provided according to a type of a product title, and an administrator transfers the game rules from a server of the administrator to a computer provided by the member. A game based on the game rules is provided, and a member can use a virtual trading card medium possessed by the member managed by the server in the game, and a game with a plurality of members through a computer network between members. A game method characterized in that: 5. The virtual trading card medium according to claim 1, wherein the member can arbitrarily dispose of the member, and the virtual trading card medium discarded by the member is a member of the administrator. A management system, wherein the management system is held at a dump site prepared on a server, and a member can freely obtain a virtual trading card medium placed at the dump site free of charge.