JP2006081796A - Game device allowing player to determine parameter by color - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game device allowing a player to intuitively determine an attribute matching the content of parameter without feeling disorder by specifying the color of a selected part of a character and computing the attribute of a skill, etc. as the parameter using the information weighted on the hue without requiring preparation of a large quantity of data on the parameter. <P>SOLUTION: The player draws parts of the character in a graffiti mode in which the player draws the shape of the character, and selects a part. Then, the player opens a display for selecting colors on a visual screen and determines the color of the selected part. The color information is converted to the hue, saturation and brightness, and the weighting is computed on the hue of the color information based on a predetermined attribute weighting information table. The result of the computation is multiplied by the ratio of the saturation and the brightness, and the final weighted information is obtained. The weighted information expresses the attribute of the skill which is the parameter of the selected part, and the parameter of the skill of the character is produced by using the information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention is a game in which a player can freely create a character shape and set a color. Character parameters (performance (such as hit points) and techniques for determining character characteristics from the shape, size, and color) And the like.

The present applicant has already proposed a game device that makes a desired character (including items) by determining parameters such as a technique according to a shape created by a player, and participates in the game (patent) Reference 1).
This is done by opening a graffiti area on the screen and drawing the head, torso, arms, legs, etc. by the player operating the controller in that area, and using techniques such as kicking and punching that are predetermined by that part. It is something to remember.
If a color is specified for the part, the technique of the part can be a technique of a flame attribute or a snowstorm attribute.

JP 2002-306840 A

  Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 allows a player to select a color of a character part from several colors, and determines a character parameter (a technique attribute in the case of a technique) from the selected color. A parameter is defined for each color that can be selected. For example, if it is an arm, the parameter is given a punching technique, and if the color is specified as blue, for example, a punch of a snowstorm will be performed.

Therefore, in the prior art, in order to be able to use all desired colors, parameters must be defined for each corresponding color, and as a result, a large amount of data must be held.
In a game device, it is not efficient to have that number of data in the definition of a large number of parameters. Moreover, it is required that a large number of parameters can be defined with a simple operation. In addition, it is required that the player himself can intuitively determine parameters without a sense of incongruity.

  An object of the present invention is to specify the color of a selected character part and calculate attributes such as a technique as a parameter using information weighted with respect to the hue, thereby making it possible to set the parameter without causing a sense of incongruity compared to the conventional case. It is an object of the present invention to provide a game apparatus that can intuitively determine attributes suitable for the contents and does not need to prepare a large amount of parameter data in advance.

In order to achieve the above object, claim 1 of the present invention provides a game apparatus capable of creating a character or the like to appear in a game, comprising: a shape selection means for selecting a part of the character; and a screen for selecting a color. Part color display means for displaying and specifying arbitrary color data for the selected part, and a number of techniques as parameters of the specified part at any position in the hue range of the specified color Specified by using the attribute weight information and an information holding unit that holds attribute weight information that associates the weight information of each attribute with an arbitrary width from the position that associates the attribute of the type, and the arbitrary width Weight calculation means for calculating the weight of each attribute of the color data, and the weight information for each attribute calculated by the weight calculation means. A parameter generation unit that calculates a parameter by calculating the attribute of the technique possessed by the kuta part, and gives the attribute of the color specified for the technique as a character parameter in an arbitrary color specified by the player; To do.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the first aspect, the part color display means is configured to designate a color by R, G, B, and the designated R, G, B is designated as hue, brightness, It is characterized by having color model conversion means for converting into saturation.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the weighting calculation means calculates the weighting information of each attribute for the hue using the weight information table, and then calculates the lightness and saturation of the specified color. On the other hand, the weighting information of the attribute with respect to the hue is multiplied by the information on the ratio of lightness and saturation.
Claim 4 of the present invention is the invention according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein the technique is a technique such as kick or punch determined by each part of the character. It is characterized by flame, lightning, wind, ice, poison attack, etc. given to the skill of the part.
A fifth aspect of the present invention is the invention according to the first, second, third, or fourth aspect, wherein the character is formed by handwriting input means or displays a list of parts such as hands and feet. Select the parts of the desired shape from and form them by combining the selected parts, or combine or replace the acquired parts by taking away or copying parts such as hands and feet of enemy characters It is characterized by forming.

In general, a person can intuitively recognize the difference in color. The HSV model fits well with human senses, and is easy to understand as a way of specifying colors and can be expressed simply. When the parameter is a technique, the user can specify a color in a color close to intuition, for example, for a technique (for example, punch if the part is an arm) given the part of the created character. If the technique is punch, if the information is weighted for the flame attribute in the red system, the ice attribute in the blue system, and the lightning attribute in the yellow system, an attribute technique that matches the color can be created. . According to the configuration of the present invention, it is possible to select an arbitrary color as described above, specify a color in a form close to intuition, and create a parameter suitable for the color.
This is a simple action in which the user designates an arbitrary color, and the parameters can be directly changed and the user's intention can be reflected without complicated operations.
In addition, when creating a large amount of data as a parameter in a game, it can be created by a simple operation of specifying a color, and it is not necessary to prepare complicated data in advance.
By changing the hue weighting position and width of attribute weight information, it becomes easy to create completely different parameter values even when the same color data is specified, and subtle color differences are reflected in the parameter values. It is also possible.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration example of a game apparatus according to the present invention.
A game machine 2 is connected to the display 1, and handwritten input can be performed by the controller 3. The controller 3 has a cross button 4 on the left side, four buttons 5 for determining, ending, returning, and the like on the right side, and analog sticks 9a and 9b.
The game can be progressed by operating the button 5 or the cross button 4. In this example, a game character 6a and an item 6b are displayed on the game screen 6, and the game is in progress.

  A graffiti area 7 is opened at the lower right of the screen 6, and a two-dimensional shape can be input to this portion by operating the analog stick. A two-dimensional character 8 as shown in FIG. 1 is written in the graffiti area. In this way, when the two-dimensional character 8 is written, the part of the character 8 is selected, the hue of the designated color is calculated using the weight information, and a parameter (in this example, a technique) is generated. A three-dimensional process is performed by an algorithm predetermined by the creation unit 10g (see FIG. 2), and a character that can be used in a game is completed. In this embodiment, the character is created during the game, but can also be performed at the start of the game.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the circuit of the game device according to the present invention. This figure shows only the circuit part directly related to the present invention, and other parts are omitted.
A display 1 and a controller 3 are connected to the game machine 2. The cross button 4 of the controller 3 can move the cursor up and down, left and right, and can select a number of displayed menus in order. The four buttons 5 are buttons that realize functions such as ending, drawing back, drawing, and returning when making a decision to advance the game and creating a two-dimensional character. The analog stick 9a moves a dropper for selecting a color to any position, and the analog stick 9b is used for drawing a line.
By performing a predetermined operation with the controller 3, the game activation signal is transmitted to the CPU 10 via the interface unit 13 and the bus 12. The game control unit 10 f of the CPU 10 reads the game program 15 b and related data, performs image processing in the image processing unit 11, and displays a game start screen on the display 1. At the same time, a background sound or the like is output from the speaker 17 via the sound circuit 16.

The game control unit 10f displays a graffiti area for inputting a two-dimensional shape such as a character at the start of the game. Also, the graffiti area 7 can be opened by the player pressing a predetermined button of the controller 3 during the game.
When the player creates a character or item having his / her favorite characteristics, the player operates mainly on the analog sticks 9a and 9b of the controller 3.
The CPU 10 has a control function for creating characters and items in addition to the game control unit 10f that controls the entire game. As a functional block formed by the CPU 10 and the game program 15b, a shape selection signal processing unit 10a, a part color display unit 10b, an attribute weight information table 10c, a weighting calculation unit 10d, a parameter generation unit 10e, a three-dimensional character creation unit 10g, HSV A conversion unit 10h is shown.

The shape selection signal processing unit 10a constitutes a shape selection means together with the controller 3. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, a character part (arm, leg, etc.) drawn in the graffiti area is selected by the controller 3. When that information is received.
FIG. 4 shows an example in which a bear 20 is drawn as a character in the graffiti area and the arm 22 is selected as the character part.
“End”, “draw back”, “draw” and “return” displayed in the upper right of the screen correspond to the four buttons 5 of the controller 3, and a character can be drawn with the analog stick 9 b by pressing the draw button. Which part is to be drawn is opened on this screen by specifying a part (not shown), and by selecting, for example, an arm, a leg, a head, a body, etc., the part to be drawn is selected. The player decides. The part currently drawn is the arm 22, and a bar 21 indicating the limit of the length of the line for writing the arm is shown in the lower left part of the screen. The arm of this screen is drawn to the length of 21a. It has been shown that The arm cannot draw anything longer than this bar 21.
In the lower right portion of the screen, the limit of the size that the entire body of the bear 20 can draw is indicated by a crayon bar 23. Bear 20 cannot draw anything larger than this bar 23.
By selecting the arm of the bear 20 with the cross button 4 of the controller 3, the arm is selected as a part, and the information is sent to the shape selection signal processing unit 10a.

The part color display unit 10b displays a palette for selecting a color on the graffiti area 7 when the button 5 is pressed after the shape selection signal processing unit 10a receives the information on the selected part.
An example of a screen for designating a color for the selected part is shown in FIG.
On the upper right side of the screen, a triangular color model 25 with red (R), green (G), and blue (B) as the vertices and white at the center is displayed, and the analog stick 9a that is the left stick is operated. By doing so, the dropper 26 can be freely moved to arbitrarily select any color. For example, as a technique attribute that is one of the parameters, the flame can be considered red, the ice can be considered blue, and the thunder can be considered yellow. Therefore, if weight information is given to each attribute at each position in the hue range, Can be specified by intuitively considering the corresponding color.
The directional key up / down and the directional key left / right correspond to the cross button 4, and the directional key up / down is used to select brightness, color, shade density, and the directional key left / right is for the selected object. It is for deciding the level. This is used when applying a shadow using the model of the sphere on the left side of the screen, and its details are omitted.

In this embodiment, the HSV conversion unit 10h is a functional unit that converts hue designation (H), saturation (S), and brightness (V) because color designation is input as R, G, and B information.
As one of the conversion methods, the following equation can be calculated.
When c _max has the maximum value of RGB, v = c _max when c _min has the minimum value of RGB.
Therefore, when c _sub = c _max −c _min , s = c _sub / c _max .
Therefore,
When c _max = R h = ((g−b) / c _sub ) / 6 (1)
When c _max = G h = ((b−r) / c _sub +2) / 6 (2)
When c _max = B h = ((r−g) / c _sub +4) / 6 (3)
(Where c _sub = 0, s = 0, h = 0).
From the above, HSV values are expressed in 256 levels.
H = h * 256 (4)
S = s * 256 (5)
V = v * 256 (6)
It becomes.
For example, in the case where the color data is displayed in RGB 256 levels, for example, when colors of r = 104, g = 151, and b = 255 are input, h = 156 and s = 151, v = 255.

The attribute weight information table 10c shows weight information of various attributes (flame, lightning, etc.) with respect to the hue, and is held in the memory unit of the CPU 10 or the like.
For example, as weight information for the hue,
Flame H: 0 Around 57
Thunder H: 42 Around 57
Wind H: Around 84
Ice H: 127 around 57
Poison H: 212 Around 57
Is defined. Note that the weight 1.0 is set when the value is equal to the designated H value, and the weight 0.0 is set at the boundary between the front and rear widths. FIG. 6 shows a graph of the positional relationship and width of each attribute and hue in the above example. For example, in the case of H: 0, the weights are: flame: 1.0, lightning: 0.26, wind: 0.26, ice: 0.0, poison: 0.22.

The weight calculation unit 10d calculates attribute weights for the color information input using the attribute weight information table 10c.
For example, when h = 156 is input as the hue,
The weighting information is flame: 0, lightning: 0, wind: 0, ice: 0.245, poison: 0.008 (7).
The lightness and saturation of the color are s = 151 and v = 255, and the weighting information is corrected to reflect these. Since s = 151 and v = 255 are lightness ratio = 1.0 and saturation ratio = 0.492, when these ratios are multiplied by the weighting information of (7), the final weighting value is
Flame: 0, lightning: 0, wind: 0, ice: 0.145, poison: 0.005 (8) can be obtained.

The parameter generation unit 10e is given a punch technique when it is an arm, for example, and multiplies the final weighting information calculated by the weighting calculation unit 10d to generate a punch attribute as a parameter.
In the example of (8) above, since ice has the maximum weight, the character has an ice attribute punch. In addition, poison attacks will be included in ice attacks a little.
In addition, when the parameters are created from the above-mentioned weighting information of ice: 0.145 and poison: 0.005, if considered as the occurrence probability, a punch attack with an ice attribute appears with a probability of 29/30. Parameters can also be generated so that a poison attribute punch attack appears with a probability of 1/30.

Next, a procedure for weighting the technique of the character part by specifying the color of the part will be described with reference to FIG.
It is assumed that the game is started and the screen of the graffiti mode is displayed (step (hereinafter referred to as “S”) 001). The player operates the controller 3 to draw the character head, body, legs, and the like in order. When the creation of one part is finished, the screen for designating the part to be drawn is opened by operating the button 4 of the controller 3 next. The part to be drawn can be specified from the arms, legs, head, body, etc. displayed on the screen. Here, the case where the arm is designated will be described. Thereby, the player can draw an arm by operating the analog stick 9b (see FIG. 4). When an arm is drawn, for example, a normal punch technique is given as a parameter. When the drawing of the arm is finished and the arm is designated by the controller 3 in order to designate the attribute of the punch that the arm should have, the information is sent to the shape selection signal processing unit 10a (S002).

When the button 5 for opening the palette mode is pressed after the shape selection signal processing unit 10a receives the information on the selected part, the part color display unit 10b displays a palette for selecting a color on the graffiti area 7. indicate. Thereby, it is possible to select and specify the color with the analog stick 9a for the arm which is the selected part (S003).
When the color is selected, the HSV conversion unit 10h converts the input R, G, and B into hue (H), saturation (S), and brightness (V) (S004), and the weighting calculation unit 10d A weight is calculated for the selected color using the attribute weight information table (S005). Further, the calculated weighting information is multiplied by the saturation and lightness values as a ratio (S006).
This final weighted information is stored in a storage unit (not shown) in the CPU 10.
When the weighting calculation is completed for one part, the player can instruct the controller 3 whether or not to make another part following the arm (S007). If the next part creation is selected, steps S002 to S006 are repeated, and finally weighted information for the created part is stored in the storage unit in the CPU 10.

If it is selected that there is no part to be created, the parameter generation unit 10e reads the final weighted information of each part from the storage unit in the CPU 10, and, for example, if it is an arm, the parameter of the ice attribute is used as the punch attribute. A parameter representing the punch is generated. Similar parameters are generated for all the parts stored in the storage unit (S008).
If the character is created in this way and then returned to the game, the technique of each attribute can be used for the created character.

In the above embodiment, an example in which a character parameter is expressed as a technique possessed by the part of the character has been described. However, the character and item are treated as data indicating performance (hit points, physical strength, etc.), and a large amount of the character and item are processed. Can be attached.
Moreover, although the example which designates a color with R, G, and B was shown, hue (H), saturation (S), and brightness (V) may be directly designated, and in other color models Color specification is also possible. In such a case, it is necessary to provide means for HSV conversion with the color model.
Furthermore, although the example which forms a character with a handwriting means was shown, it is also possible to form by another method.
For example, display a list of parts such as hands and feet, select a part of the desired shape from the list, and combine the selected parts to form a character and parts of enemy characters such as hands and legs. By taking or copying, it is also possible to combine or replace the acquired parts to form a character. In such a case, the editing screen during the formation of the character or the part of the character after the formation is designated, and weighting is performed by color designation according to the present invention.

  In a game using a display such as a television screen, the game device allows a player to freely create a character shape.

It is the schematic which shows the structural example of the game device by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows embodiment of the circuit of the game device by this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure which weights with respect to the technique of the part of a character by designating the color of parts in this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the character to draw, and is a figure for demonstrating the method to select the site | part of a character. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen which designates a color. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the weighting range of each attribute (flame, lightning, etc.) about the hue H. FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Display
2 Game console
3 Controller 4 Cross button
5 button
6 Display screen 7 Graffiti area 8 2D character 9a, 9b Analog stick 10 CPU
11 Image processing unit 12 Bus 13 Interface unit 15 ROM
16 Sound circuit
17 Speaker

Claims (5)

In game devices that can create characters to appear in the game,
A shape selecting means for selecting the part of the character;
A part color display means for displaying a screen for selecting a color and causing the selected portion to designate arbitrary color data;
A plurality of kinds of attributes are associated with the technique as a parameter of the designated part at an arbitrary position in the hue range of the designated color, and each attribute is assigned to an arbitrary width from a position where the attributes are associated with each other. An information holding unit for holding attribute weight information in association with weight information;
Using the attribute weight information, weight calculation means for calculating a weight for each attribute of the specified color data;
Parameter generating means for calculating a parameter by calculating the attribute of the technique of the character part according to the weighting information for each attribute calculated by the weighting calculating means,
A game apparatus characterized by giving an attribute of a designated color to a technique as a character parameter in an arbitrary color designated by a player. The part color display means is configured to specify colors by R, G, B,
2. The game apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising color model conversion means for converting designated R, G, and B into hue, brightness, and saturation.   The weighting calculation means calculates the weighting information of each attribute with respect to the hue using the attribute weight information, and then displays information on the brightness and saturation ratio of the specified color with respect to the hue. The game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the weighting information is multiplied. The technique is a technique such as kick or punch determined by each part of the character.
4. The game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of types of attributes are attributes such as flame, lightning, wind, ice, poison attack, etc. given to the technique of each part.   The character is formed by handwriting input means, or a list of parts such as hands and feet is displayed, a part having a desired shape is selected from the list, and the selected parts are combined or formed. 5. The game apparatus according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4, wherein the game device is formed by combining or replacing the acquired parts by taking away or copying parts such as the hands and feet of the character.

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