JP2003117230A - Video game machine, recording medium and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique which gives impact to a fighting picture of a role playing game and gives variation to fighting. SOLUTION: When an attacking turn of a player character comes, an operating object is switched to the player character, the picture of a player character displayed presently is deleted, the picture of the player character switched to be the operating object is displayed and inputting of an attack is received and displayed. Further, designation of an enemy character of an attacking object is accepted, the picture of an enemy character displayed presently is deleted and the picture of the accepted enemy character of the attacking object is displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video game device for executing a role playing game, a recording medium recording a program to be executed by the video game device, and a program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In this type of role-playing game,
A plurality of player characters form a party and adventure on the field with the aim of acquiring treasures and exterminating demons while solving mysteries. Contact with enemy characters in the field,
Alternatively, when an enemy character appearing with a random number is encountered, the enemy character battles. In a battle, a so-called turn system is generally used in which a party of player characters and one or more enemy characters face each other on the left, right, top or bottom of the screen And is a feature of role-playing games.

The attack order described above is determined by the waiting time or quickness set for each character. The former measures the time for each character and makes an attack from the character whose waiting time has elapsed, while the latter compares the quickness of each character and determines the attack order by adding random numbers.

The attack order of the player character is generally related to the profession of the player character. For example, a sword-fighting warrior has a high attack power, and the attack order is set low in order to maintain the game balance. , The order of attack is set high because wizards are restricted by magic attacks.

[0005]

However, in such a role-playing game, a plurality of player characters and an enemy character battle each other. Therefore, in order to display all these characters on the same screen, the example shown in FIG. As shown, the images of the player characters 41 to 43 and the enemy characters 44 to 46 need to be made small, which causes a problem of lack of power.

If the enemy character is strongly attacked by a plurality of times before the battle ends, the same player character often repeats the same attack, and the battle tends to be monotonous.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of imparting a force to the battle screen of a role-playing game and changing the battle.

[0008]

The first means of the present invention is to:
In a video game device that displays a player character and an enemy character on a display means to make mutual attacks according to the attack order determined by the attack order determination means, the attack order determination means turns the attack order to the player character. Switch means for switching the operation target to the player character in the attack order, and when the operation target is switched by the switching means, the image of the player character currently displayed is erased and switched to the operation target. Display control means for displaying an image of the player character displayed, and acceptance means for accepting an input of the attack of the player character switched to the operation target displayed by the display control means. A video game characterized by displaying the attacks received by the means. It is a non-system.

According to this means, the image of the player character currently displayed is erased, and only the image of the player character in the attack order is displayed in a large size.
A powerful battle screen can be realized.

Here, the display means means a display device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display. The attack order determining means is, for example, means for measuring a time determined for each character and determining the attack order from the character whose time has elapsed, means for determining the attack order based on the quickness and random number which are the attributes of the character, and the like. .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first means, the acceptance means accepts designation of an enemy character to be attacked, and the display control means displays an image of the currently displayed enemy character. The image of the enemy character, which has been erased and has been accepted by the accepting means, is displayed.

According to the present means, a powerful battle screen can be realized by deleting the currently displayed image of the enemy character and displaying only the image of the enemy character to be attacked.

A third means of the present invention is, in the first means, a counting means for counting the number of attacks displayed by the display control means for each player character, and a player according to the number counted by the counting means. Further comprising a changing means for changing the attack of the character,
The display control means displays the attack changed by the changing means.

According to the present means, the attack can be changed every time a turn is made to the same player character in one battle, and the battle can be changed. Changing the attack here means changing the attack power, the attack method, the character image, the attack effect, the sound effect, and the like.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a computer readable program recording a program for displaying the player character and the enemy character on the display means and causing them to attack each other according to the attack order determined by the attack order determining step. A recording medium, a switching step of switching the operation target to the player character whose attack order has been turned when the attack order has been turned to the player character by the attack order determination step, and the operation target being switched by the switching step. , A display control step of erasing the image of the player character currently displayed and displaying the image of the player character switched to the operation target, and a display control step of the player character switched to the operation target displayed by the display control step. Acceptance step to accept attack input Wherein the display control step,
It is a computer-readable recording medium recording a program for causing a video game device to display an attack accepted by the accepting means.

By storing the program in a recording medium, only the program can be distributed. As the recording medium, any medium such as a DVD-ROM, a CD-ROM, a flexible disk, a game cartridge, a memory card, a magnetic disk, and a magnetic tape can be used.

A fifth means of the present invention is a program for displaying a player character and an enemy character on a display means, and causing them to attack each other according to the attack order determined in the attack order determining step. A switching step of switching the operation target to the player character in the attack order when the player character is in the attack order by the determination step, and the player character currently displayed when the operation target is switched by the switching step. A display control step of erasing the image of the player character and displaying the image of the player character switched to the operation target, and a reception step of receiving an attack input of the player character switched to the operation target displayed by the display control step. The display control step includes the reception Is a program to be executed by a video game device to display an attack received by means.

The program can be delivered to a video game device, an information terminal, a mobile phone or the like having a communication function by wireless or wire. Moreover, it is possible to write directly on a medium readable by these devices.

[0019]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION 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 includes a DVD-ROM (Digital) (not shown) in the DVD-ROM drive 2a.
A video disc-ROM) 2 is mounted and provides a game program and game data. Further, a controller 3 as an external input device and a memory card 4 as an external storage device are connected.

The display 5 serves to provide the player with the display symbols output from the game machine body 1 as a display image, and the speaker 6 provides the player with the voice symbols as a sound, and a general household television receiver is used. You can

The controller 3 has various operation buttons. On the left side of the controller 3 when viewed in the plane direction, direction keys 7 for up, down, left and right directions are provided, and are used for moving the character in the corresponding direction by pressing the key 7 in the corresponding direction, moving the cursor on the selection screen, and the like. On the other hand, on the right side of the controller 3, there are o button 8 and x button 9, which are used for decision input and cancel input, respectively. Further, the □ button 10 and the Δ button 11 are used for inputting a specific command. A start button 12 and a select button 13 are provided in the center of the controller 3, and the former is used for temporarily stopping or restarting the game, and the latter is used for switching screens.

FIG. 2 shows the hardware blocks of the video game device of the present invention. The video game device is
CPU (Central Pro) via internal bus 10
processing unit 11, image processing unit 14, audio processing unit 16, DVD-ROM (Digital Vi)
A deo disc-ROM) reading unit 17, an interface unit 18, and the like are provided.

The CPU 11 has a RAM (Random Access Memory) as a main storage device.
12 is connected to a ROM (Read Only Memory) 13 in which a program such as an operating system for managing the image processing unit 14, the sound processing unit 16 and the like is stored. The CPU 11 also includes an oscillator circuit that generates a clock signal and a frequency divider circuit that divides the clock signal to generate a clock signal.

The image processing unit 14 is a DVD-ROM 2
The compressed and coded image data read from is decoded and subjected to coordinate calculation, rendering, shading, etc. and stored in the frame buffer 15. According to the drawing command output from the CPU 11 the stored image data,
Digital-to-analog conversion is performed and displayed on the display 4.

The audio processing unit 16 converts the sound data of the DVD-ROM 2 read by the DVD-ROM reading unit 17 into analog data and outputs it from the speaker 6. Further, the voice processing unit 16 generates data of sound effects and music according to the instruction of the CPU 11, converts the data into analog data, and outputs the analog data to the speaker 5.

The DVD-ROM reading section 17 is a DVD
The game program and data are read from the ROM 2, and the read program and data are recorded in the RAM 12. Also, the read sound data is stored in the internal bus 1
It is sent to the voice processing unit 16 via 0.

A controller 3 for inputting an instruction from a player and a memory card 4 as an external storage device for storing game setting data and the like are detachably connected to the interface section 18.

Here, the game stored in the DVD-ROM 2 is a role-playing game in which a party of a plurality of player characters is formed on the field, and an adventure occurs while repeating battle with an enemy character encountered.

FIG. 3 illustrates the battle screen displayed on the display 5. On the right side of the screen, the attack image of the player character 41 in the attack order is the attack effect 41a.
And the enemy character 44 to be attacked, which is designated and input from the controller 3, is displayed on the left side.

In FIG. 4, the attack order is the player character 42.
The battle screen when turning to is illustrated. The image of the player character 41 that has been displayed so far is deleted, and the image of the player character 42 that has been in the order of attack is displayed. Also, the enemy character 45 designated and input as the attack target
Is displayed and the previous enemy character 44 has been deleted.

In FIG. 5, the player character 41 is again in the order of attack, and the enemy character 4 is targeted for attack as in the previous time.
The battle screen when 4 is designated and input is illustrated. Since the attack of the player character 41 is the second time, the attack power is stronger than that in FIG. 3, and accordingly, the attack effect 4
1b is also displayed large.

FIG. 6 shows a functional block diagram of this.
Is. The attack order determination unit 61 reads the quickness of each character from the character data recording unit 62 and ranks the characters,
Furthermore, the random number of the random number unit 63 is added to determine the attack order for each turn. A conceptual structural diagram of the character data recording unit 62 is shown in FIG. 7, in which occupation, HP (Hit Point), MP (Magic) are provided for each character.
Point), power, quickness, magic, magical power, etc. are recorded.

Returning to FIG. 6 again, the switching unit 64 switches the operation target to the player character when the player character is in the attack order. Reception unit 67
Receives from the controller 3 the input of the attack of the player character switched to the operation target. The input of the attack includes designation of the enemy character to be attacked, and when the player character can use magic, designation of magic to be used and the like.

The counting unit 66 counts the number of attacks in one battle for each player character. The attack changing unit 67 changes the force or magic power read from the character data recording unit 62 according to the counted number of attacks.

When the player character to be operated is switched by the switching unit 64, the display control unit 68 erases the image of the player character that was previously displayed and replaces the image data of the switched player character with the image data. It is read from the recording unit 69 and displayed on the display 5. Further, the display control unit 68 erases the image of the previous enemy character if the attack of the player character accepted by the accepting unit 65 is an attack specifying one enemy,
The image data of the enemy character is stored in the image data recording unit 69.
Read from and display. Further, when the accepting unit 65 accepts the attack of the player character, the display control unit 68 reads the image data corresponding to the modified value modified by the attack modifying unit 67 from the image data recording unit 69 and displays the image data.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the above processing.
9 and FIG. That is, the attack order determination unit 61 reads the quickness of each character from the character data recording unit 62 (101), reads the random number of the random number unit 63 (102), and adds a random number in the order of quickness to attack for one turn. The order is determined (103). If it is the attack order of the player character (104), the switching unit 64 switches the operation target to the player character (105). The display control unit 68 erases the currently displayed image of the player character (106), reads the image data of the player character to be operated from the image data recording unit 69, and displays it on the display 5 (107). Counting unit 66
Increments the counter of the player character that is the operation target (108).

When the accepting unit 65 accepts the attack of the player character by pressing the operation button of the controller 3 (109), the display control unit 68 designates one enemy character as the attack by the sword of a warrior. If it is an attack (110), the image of the currently displayed enemy character is erased (111), and the image data of the designated enemy character is read from the image data recording unit 69 and displayed (112). On the other hand, like the magic of attacking the entire enemy character of the wizard, if the attack does not specify one enemy character (110), the image of the currently displayed enemy character is erased (121) and all enemy characters are deleted. The image data is read from the image data recording unit 69 and displayed (1
22). The attack changing unit 67 reads the attack power of the character data recording unit and changes the attack power by the count of the counting unit 66 (113). The display control unit 68 reads the data corresponding to the changed attack from the image data recording unit 69 and displays it on the display 5 (114).

If the attack order of enemy characters is (20
1), the display control unit 68 displays the attack of the enemy character (202).

The above steps 104 to 114 are repeated until the current turn is completed (115).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to change the image of the player character in the order of attack and to display different attacks depending on the number of attacks so that the attack can be made powerful and change.

The player character who is not the attack number may be displayed with a name or a small icon image in the corner of the attack screen in order to show its existence. Further, although the present invention has been described for the player character, it may be similarly applied to an enemy character.

[0043]

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a technique capable of imparting a force to the battle screen of a role-playing game and changing the battle.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration centering on a game console main body.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a battle screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a battle screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a battle screen.

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conceptual structure of a character data recording unit.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a conventional battle screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Game console body 2 DVD-ROM 3 controller 5 display 41, 42, 43 Player characters 44, 45, 46 enemy characters

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A video game device for displaying a player character and an enemy character on a display means, and attacking each other according to the attack order determined by the attack order determining means, wherein the attack order determining means causes the player character to attack each other. Switching means for switching the operation target to the player character in the attack order when the attack order is turned, and deleting the image of the player character currently displayed when the operation target is switched by the switching means. A display control unit that displays an image of the player character switched to the operation target; and a reception unit that receives an attack input of the player character switched to the operation target displayed by the display control unit. The means is characterized by displaying the attack accepted by the accepting means. Video game apparatus according to. 2. The accepting unit accepts designation of an enemy character to be attacked, the display control unit erases an image of the currently displayed enemy character, and the enemy character to be attacked is accepted by the accepting unit. The video game device according to claim 1, wherein the image of the image is displayed. 3. A counting means for counting the number of attacks displayed by the display control means for each player character, and a changing means for changing the attack of the player character according to the number of times counted by the counting means. 2. The video game device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays the attack changed by the changing unit. 4. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for displaying a player character and an enemy character on a display means and causing each other to attack each other in accordance with the attack order determined in the attack order determining step is provided. When the attack order of the player character is turned by the attack order determining step, a switching step of switching the operation target to the player character whose attack order is turned, and the operation target being switched by the switching step are currently displayed. A display control step of erasing the image of the player character and displaying the image of the player character switched to the operation target, and a reception step of accepting an attack input of the player character switched to the operation target displayed by the display control step. And the display Your step, said reception computer-readable recording medium storing a program to be executed by the video game device to display an attack received by means. 5. A program for displaying a player character and an enemy character on a display means so as to attack each other according to the attack order determined in the attack order determining step, wherein the attack is performed on the player character in the attack order determining step. When the turn is turned, a switching step of switching the operation target to the player character whose attack order has been turned, and when the operation target is switched by the switching step, the image of the player character currently displayed is erased, and the operation is performed. A display control step of displaying an image of the player character switched to the target; and a reception step of receiving an attack input of the player character switched to the operation target displayed by the display control step, the display control step comprising: , Accepted by the acceptance means Program to be executed by the video game device to display the attack was.