JP2022168266A - Game machine and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide continuity and storylines to the presentations of a game machine.

SOLUTION: A presentation control portion 3 provided in a game machine includes a presentation selection portion 32 for selecting specific presentation scene information among a plurality of pieces of presentation scene information that are stored in a presentation storage portion 31 for storing the plurality of pieces of presentation scene information. The presentation selection portion 32 includes a continuity improvement portion 33 that further selects, every time a lottery is conducted, presentation scene information having continuity with respect to the selected presentation scene information and thereby increases the continuity of the presentation. The continuity improvement portion 33 includes: a connection presentation information storage portion 352 for storing scene connection information indicating a connection patter of the plurality of pieces of presentation scene information in correspondence with connection time information that is time required for the presentation of the scene connection information; a residual time recognition portion 353 for recognizing a residual time before the start of a presentation for the specific presentation information; and a connection presentation information selection portion 351 for selecting connection presentation information having connection time information corresponding to the residual time recognized by the residual time recognition portion 353.

SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

COPYRIGHT: (C)2023,JPO&INPIT

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a game machine having an effect function such as image display.

Players of pachinko, pachislot, and other pachinko and other gaming machines obtain a sense of satisfaction by playing the game and winning prizes. is difficult. In such a situation, the importance of effects such as screen display performed according to lottery results and the like has increased, and various proposals have been made regarding ingenious effects (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2005-168605 A

However, the presentation in the current game machine is selected according to the result of winning or losing by lottery, so it lacks consistency in terms of time and context, and you can fully enjoy the continuity of the presentation and the story. It is not possible. In addition, when a winner is won by lottery, the excitement is produced regardless of the development up to that point, so there is no continuity in the production up to the excitement, and the excitement is produced only in a single scene. As a result, in this respect as well, the production lacks continuity and storytelling.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems, and its object is to provide continuity and storylines to the presentation in a game machine.

The present invention is a gaming machine comprising: a main control section for performing a lottery when winning a start chucker; a production section for outputting production information; and a production control section for controlling the production information, wherein the production control is performed. a performance storage unit for storing a plurality of performance scene information; and a performance selection unit for selecting specific performance scene information from among the plurality of performance scene information stored in the performance storage unit. The selection unit further selects other performance scene information having continuity with the selected performance scene information each time a lottery is performed in the main control unit, thereby enhancing the continuity of the performance. wherein the continuity improving unit stores scene connection information indicating a connection pattern of a plurality of pieces of effect scene information and connection time information indicating the time required for the production of the scene connection information in association with each other. An information storage unit, a remaining time recognizing unit for recognizing the remaining time until the performance of specific performance information is started, and a linked effect having the linked time information corresponding to the remaining time recognized by the remaining time recognizing unit. and a link performance information selection unit that selects information.

In the present invention, the effect selection unit for selecting specific effect scene information from a plurality of effect scene information stored in the effect storage unit is provided with a effect scene having continuity in terms of story with respect to the selected effect scene information. A continuity improving section is provided for enhancing the continuity of presentation by further selecting information, and the continuity improving section includes scene connection information indicating a connection pattern of a plurality of presentation scene information and the time required for presentation of the scene connection information. , a remaining time recognizing unit that recognizes the remaining time until the performance of the specific effect information is started, and the remaining time recognizing unit recognizes Since the apparatus is provided with a link effect information selection unit that selects link effect information having the link time information corresponding to time, it is possible to impart continuity and storylines to the effect.

It is a hardware block diagram showing a configuration example of a gaming machine. It is a functional block diagram which shows the structural example of a production|presentation control part. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of performance scene information; FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of connection strength information that constitutes production scene information; It is explanatory drawing which shows the structural example of connection production|presentation information. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of connection effect information;

The gaming machine 1 shown in FIG. 1 includes a production unit 2 that performs production by screen display, etc., a production control unit 3 that controls the content of the production, and a main control unit 4 that controls the gambling aspect of winning balls. , and a payout control unit 5 for controlling payout at the time of winning according to game control by the main control unit 4 .

The production unit 2 includes a display device for displaying images, a speaker for producing sound, lighting for turning on and off lights, etc., and produces production information controlled by the production control unit 3 using images, sounds, lights, etc. , and provides a presentation to the user.

The main control unit 4 performs game control such as a winning or losing lottery (main lottery) when winning the start chucker.

The payout control unit 5 controls payout at the time of winning according to game control by the main control unit 4 .

As shown in FIG. 2, the effect control unit 3 includes a CPU 301 that performs calculation and judgment, a ROM 302 that stores a control program executed by the CPU 301, a RAM 303 that stores data as necessary in the processing of the CPU 301, and various data. A recording unit 304 consisting of a hard disk drive or the like for recording, a command I/F 305 as an interface with the main control unit 4, and an effect output I/F 306 as an interface with the effect unit 2 are connected via a bus. It is

The command I/F 305 is an interface for inputting command information output according to the lottery result in the main control section 4 and is connected to the main control section 4 .

In the effect control unit 3, the control program stored in the ROM 302 is executed by the CPU 301, thereby realizing the functions of the parts shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the effect control unit 3 includes a effect storage unit 31 that stores a plurality of effect scene information including video, audio, etc. of the effect scene, and a plurality of effect scene information stored in the effect storage unit 31. and an effect selection unit 32 for selecting specific effect scene information from the.

The performance selection unit 32 is provided with a continuity improving unit 33 for enhancing the continuity of performance by further selecting performance scene information having continuity with respect to the selected performance scene information. Here, continuity means the degree of connection in the story, and it is considered that the greater the degree of connection, the more the player can be entertained. In addition, the performance selection unit 32 is provided with a speed adjustment unit 34 that adjusts the speed of performance.

The continuity improving unit 33 includes a performance scene information linking unit 341 that links individual performance scene information stored in the performance storage unit 31, and a specific connection pattern from among a plurality of patterns in which performance scenes are linked in advance. It is provided with a link effect information selection unit 351 for selection. A plurality of patterns linked in advance are stored in the linked effect information storage section 352 . In addition, the linked effect information selection unit 351 can read the remaining time from the remaining time recognition unit 353 that recognizes the remaining time until the effect of the specific effect information is started, and the effect is generated according to the read remaining time. Select the concatenation pattern of The continuity improving unit 33 uses either the effect scene information linking unit 341 or the link effect information selecting unit 351 to improve the continuity of the effect.

First, the case where the effect scene information linking unit 341 is used to enhance the continuity of the effect will be described. First, the user starts the game, and the main lottery is executed when the first game ball wins the start chucker. Along with this, the first performance is selected by the performance selection unit 32 from the performances stored in the performance storage unit 31, and the performance is started in the performance unit 2. - 特許庁

Subsequently, the second game ball wins the start chucker and the main lottery is executed. Along with this, an effect that is likely to be connected (with a high connection strength) to the first effect is included in the effect scene information stored in the effect storage unit 31 by the effect scene information linking unit 341 shown in FIG. is selected from

As shown in FIG. 3, the effect scene information 101 stored in the effect storage unit 31 includes connection strength information 100a indicating ease of connection with other connected scene information, and effect content information 100b indicating the actual content of the effect. consists of The connection strength information 100a has an area indicating the connection strength, for example, by a number for each number of all the other effect scene information. The value of the connection strength is stored separately. For example, when the effect scene information 101, 102, 103, 104 and 105 are stored in the effect storage unit 31 shown in FIG. 2, the connection strength information 100a of the effect scene information 101 shown in FIG. It shows the ease of connection before and after the production scene information 102, 103, 104, and 105. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, each of the connection strength information 100a of the production scene information 102 to 105 also has a value indicating the ease of connection with other production scene information.

The performance scene information 101 to 105 includes performance content information 100b indicating the content of each performance. The effect content information 100b may be the data itself indicating the content of the effect, or may be a pointer or the like pointing to an area in which the content of the effect is stored.

For example, when the effect scene information 101 is first selected by the effect selection unit 32, the effect scene information linking unit 341 reads out the link strength information 100a of the effect scene information 101, and selects the effect scene information that is most likely to be connected later. select. Since the largest (highest link strength) value among the numerical values indicating the strength of the subsequent connection constituting the connection strength information 100a of the production scene information 101 is the degree of connection "9" to the production scene information 104, the production The scene information linking unit 341 determines that the scene information 104 should be rendered next to the scene information 101 . Then, the effect selection section 32 selects the effect scene information 104, connects the effect scene information 104 next to the effect scene information 101, and causes the effect part 2 to effect.

After that, similarly, the effect scene information that is likely to be connected after the effect scene information 104 is selected. As shown in FIG. 4, in the connection strength information 100a of the effect scene information 104, the largest value among the numerical values indicating the degree of connection to the rear constituting the connection strength information 100a of the effect scene information 104 is the effect scene information. Since the degree of connectivity to 102 is "8", it is determined that the scene information 102 should be rendered next to the scene information 104 . Then, the effect selection section 32 selects the effect scene information 102 and causes the effect scene information 104 to be selected by the effect scene information 102 next to the effect scene information 104 .

In this way, between the performances accompanying each lottery, a performance with a strong connection strength (a highly correlated performance) is selected before and after each performance, and the performances between a plurality of lotteries are straddled. By performing the directing, continuity and storylines are created in the directing, and the user can be more entertained.

When using the previous degree of connection among the connection strength information of each piece of effect scene information, the connection strength information constituting the effect scene information to be produced from now on is read, and the previous effect scene information with the highest degree of connection is selected. The performance is performed before the performance scene information to be selected and to be performed from now on. Therefore, it is effective to use the degree of connection to the front when, for example, the performance scene information to be produced is predetermined and it is desired to create a development with continuity and storylines until the production.

In the above example, the effect scene information 101 shown in FIG.
00b are stored in a corresponding state, they may not be stored integrally as the effect scene information 101. FIG.

Next, a case will be described in which the continuity of effects is enhanced using the linked effect information selection unit 351 shown in FIG. In the linked effect information storage unit 352 shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of linked effect information 201 indicating a connection pattern of the plurality of effect scene information shown in FIG. 5 are stored. The connection effect information 201 has scene connection information 200b indicating a connection pattern of a plurality of effect scene information, and connection time information 200a which is the time required for the effect of the scene connection information 200b. The scene connection information 200b consists of a plurality of scene numbers, and is stored in the order of presentation determined in advance so as to have continuity and storylines as a whole. On the other hand, the linking time information 200a indicates the time required for rendering all the scenes stored in the scene linking information.

If the effect information of each effect scene number has the connection strength information 100a shown in FIGS. can. Also, if the effect information of each effect scene number does not have the connection strength information 100a shown in FIGS. good too.

The number of pieces of scene information forming each piece of scene link information 200b may be constant, or may be different for each piece. For example, the linked effect information 202, 203, and 204 shown in FIG. 6 differ in the number of pieces of scene information.

The linked effect information selection unit 351 selects one of these multiple linked effect information. In this selection, the link effect information selection unit 351 refers to the remaining time recognition unit 353 to grasp the remaining time until the effect of the specific effect information is started. This remaining time is, for example, the time until the winning in the lottery in the main control unit 4 shown in FIG.

On the other hand, the linked effect information selection unit 351 grasps the remaining time and reads the value of the linked time information 200a of each of the plurality of linked effect information 202-204. Among them, the one corresponding to the remaining time stored in the remaining time recognizing unit 353, for example, the one closest to the remaining time stored in the remaining time recognizing unit 353, or the one whose time is shorter than the remaining time choose things. For example, if the remaining time is 90 seconds and the values of the connection time information 200a of the connection effect information 202-204 are respectively 80 seconds, 30 seconds and 45 seconds as shown in FIG. 80 seconds, which is the closest and shortest to 90 seconds, is selected, and the linked effect information 202 is selected in which the effect ends at 80 seconds. The linked performance information 202 selected in this manner is rendered by the rendering section 2 .

In this case, since there is a time of 10 seconds between the end of the presentation of the linked presentation information 202 and the start of the next presentation, the linked time information 200a, which is close to 10 seconds and shorter than 10 seconds, is also displayed in this case. is selected by the linked effect information selection unit 351 .

If there is no link time information 200a of an appropriate length among the link effect information, the link effect information selection unit 351 causes the speed adjustment unit 34 to slow down the effect speed of the link effect information 202. It is also possible to instruct to spend 90 seconds on the effect.

Further, the link effect information selection unit 351 can also select link effect information having a time longer than the remaining time stored by the remaining time recognition unit 353 as the link time information 200a. For example, when the remaining time is 40 seconds, the closest linked time information 200a is 45 seconds of the linked effect information 204. is selected, and the speed adjustment unit 34 is instructed to speed up the performance speed of the connection performance information 204 and finish in 40 seconds.

As described above, by using the speed adjusting section 34, there is no time gap until the winning performance is reached. In addition, since the scene connection information 200b is a combination of production scenes that are considered to have continuity in terms of story, it is possible to smooth the flow up to the winning production.

In the above example, the connection effect information 201 shown in FIG. However, as long as the scene connection information 200b and the connection time information 200a are stored in correspondence, they do not have to be stored integrally as the connection effect information 201. FIG.

1: Game machine 2: Production unit 3: Production control unit 4: Main control unit 31: Production storage unit 32: Production selection unit 33: Continuity improvement unit 341: Production scene information connection unit 351: Connection production information selection unit 352: Linked effect information storage unit 353: remaining time recognition unit 100a: link strength information 100b: effect content information 101-105: effect scene information 200a: link time information 200b: scene link information 201-204: link effect information

Claims (2)

A main control unit that draws a lottery when winning a start checker,
a production unit that outputs production information;
A performance control unit that controls the performance information;
A gaming machine comprising
The production control unit is
a production storage unit that stores a plurality of production scene information;
an effect selection unit that selects specific effect scene information from among the plurality of effect scene information stored in the effect storage unit;
The effect selection unit further selects other effect scene information having continuity with the selected effect scene information each time a lottery is performed in the main control unit, thereby increasing the continuity of the effect. Equipped with a performance improvement part,
The continuity improving unit includes:
a linked effect information storage unit that stores scene link information indicating a link pattern of a plurality of effect scene information and link time information that is the time required for effecting the scene link information in association with each other;
a remaining time recognition unit that recognizes the remaining time until the performance of specific performance information is started;
a game machine comprising a link effect information selection unit that selects link effect information having the link time information corresponding to the remaining time recognized by the remaining time recognition unit. the computer,
A main control unit that draws a lottery when winning a start checker,
a production unit that outputs production information;
A performance control unit that controls the performance information;
A program that functions as
the production control unit,
a production storage unit that stores a plurality of production scene information;
functioning as an effect selection unit that selects specific effect scene information from among a plurality of effect scene information stored in the effect storage unit;
Continuity for enhancing continuity of performance by further selecting other performance scene information having continuity with the selected performance scene information in the performance selection unit each time a lottery is performed in the main control unit. Have a function as an improvement part,
In the continuity improving part,
a linked effect information storage unit that stores scene link information indicating a link pattern of a plurality of effect scene information and link time information that is the time required for effecting the scene link information in association with each other;
a remaining time recognition unit that recognizes the remaining time until the performance of specific performance information is started;
a link effect information selection unit that selects link effect information having the link time information corresponding to the remaining time recognized by the remaining time recognition unit;
A program that functions as

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