JP6140651B2 - Game program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a game program, and more particularly to a game program that operates and advances a 3D model object.

  In recent years, the progress of mobile terminals such as smartphones has been remarkable, and accordingly, game applications released for mobile terminals (hereinafter simply referred to as “games”) have been released with high quality. An example of such a game is an action role-playing game (hereinafter referred to as “action RPG”) produced in so-called full 3D.

  On the other hand, with the sophistication and complexity of content, the amount of computation (processing) in the mobile terminal increases, and new problems such as increased power consumption and heat generation of the mobile terminal have arisen. As a technique for reducing the power consumption of the portable terminal, for example, there are techniques disclosed in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2. The technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 automatically optimizes the number of frames of a TV signal received at a predetermined (fixed) frame rate in accordance with the remaining battery capacity of the mobile terminal in a mobile terminal with a TV function. It is possible to extend the battery life (hereinafter referred to as “power saving measure”). The technique disclosed in Patent Document 2 performs power saving measures by automatically reducing the display update frequency of a specific object when a certain load or more is applied to the game device.

JP 2005-223454 A JP 2011-186834 A

  In the action RPG described above, the player can experience a pseudo adventure by operating a player character placed in the virtual space. By the way, in the general action RPG, the field drawn with a realistic background is moved in and out, the battle with the enemy character is full of speed, and the recollection scene with powerful video is projected. A variety of scenes are prepared, and the player can enjoy high-quality content produced in full 3D.

  However, since both techniques of Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 automatically perform power saving measures, for example, there is a need to view high-definition video even if battery consumption is allowed in a certain scene. Cannot respond flexibly. That is, since such needs are determined by the player's own value, a technique for uniformly saving power is incompatible with the above needs.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a game program that meets the needs of players such as enjoying high-quality content while aiming to reduce power consumption.

According to the present invention, as a first game program, a game program related to a game that is executed on a mobile terminal having a touch panel and is advanced by operating a 3D model object in a virtual space,
In the mobile terminal,
An input control unit for receiving an input operation from a player via the touch panel;
According to the input operation, function as a game control unit that controls the 3D model object, and a video control unit that generates a video according to the control of the 3D model object and displays it on the touch panel.
The moving image control unit includes a frame rate control unit that changes a frame rate of the moving image within a predetermined range in accordance with a power consumption instruction in the input operation.
The predetermined range includes at least a range of 30 FPS (Frames Per Second) to 60 FPS.
A game program is obtained.

According to the present invention, as the second game program, the game program described in the first aspect,
The predetermined range is 30 FPS to 60 FPS.
A game program is obtained.

According to the present invention, as the second game program, the game program described in the first or second,
In the terminal,
The game control unit displays a game possible time calculated from the power consumption instruction and the battery remaining amount on the touch panel.
A game program is obtained.

According to the present invention, as the second game program, the game program according to any one of the first to third aspects,
The input control unit causes the player to select an arbitrary point between the power saving priority mode corresponding to the lower limit of the predetermined range and the quality priority mode corresponding to the upper limit of the predetermined range as the power consumption instruction.
When the high quality priority mode is selected, the game control unit prompts the user to change to the power saving priority mode when the available game time calculated from the remaining battery charge becomes a predetermined time or less. Is displayed on the touch panel,
A game program is obtained.

According to the present invention, as the second game program, the game program according to the fourth aspect,
The game displays the 3D model object corresponding to each of the plurality of players in the virtual space by communicating the mobile terminals of the plurality of players via a wireless network.
When the communication is performed in a state in which the high quality priority mode is selected, the game control unit automatically detects when the game possible time calculated from the battery remaining amount becomes the predetermined time or less. To change to the power saving priority mode,
A game program is obtained.

According to the present invention, as the second game program, the game program according to any one of the first to fifth aspects,
The power consumption instruction is input by causing the player to select an arbitrary point P among the predetermined range divided into N, where the lower limit of the predetermined range is 0 and the upper limit is N (where N> 0). Let
When the frame rate corresponding to the lower limit and the upper limit is R _min and R _MAX , respectively, the moving image control unit sets the changed frame rate F to the following formula: F = R _min + (R _MAX −R _min ) × P / N
Calculated by
A game program is obtained.

According to the present invention, the second game program is a first to sixth game program,
A game program is obtained in which all objects displayed in the virtual space are 3D model objects.

  According to the present invention, a storage medium having the game program according to any one of the first to seventh is obtained as the second game program.

  According to the present embodiment, since the player himself / herself sets the frame rate of the game according to the power consumption, the player can determine the balance between the power consumption and the quality after being convinced.

  Further, since the remaining game available time corresponding to the set frame rate is presented to the player, the player can use the game stage clear time as a guide. Thereby, time efficiency can be improved compared with the past.

  Furthermore, while the game is in progress, if the remaining available game time is less than a certain time, the display prompts the user to change the set frame rate to a lower one. It is possible to prevent such a situation that the mobile terminal is suddenly turned off.

  In addition, when cooperative play is performed with another person's mobile terminal via communication, the power of one terminal is turned off, so the other game is also forcibly terminated and the monetary cost required for game play The problem of losing (charging items etc.) can arise. However, in the present invention, the frame rate is automatically lowered only when the remaining game time becomes a certain time or less only during cooperative play via communication. Thereby, the above problem can be avoided.

It is an external view of the portable terminal with which the game program by the 1st Embodiment of this invention is performed. It is a block diagram which shows typically the structure of the portable terminal of FIG. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing details of the configuration of the block diagram of FIG. 2. It is an example of the window displayed on a touch panel at the time of the game program execution by this Embodiment. It is another example of the window displayed on a touch panel at the time of the game program execution by this Embodiment. It is another example of the window displayed on a touch panel at the time of the game program execution by this Embodiment. It is a graph which shows the comparison of the power consumption at the time of the game program execution by this Embodiment. It is a graph which shows the comparison of the starting time of a portable terminal at the time of the game program execution by this Embodiment.

  A game program according to an embodiment of the present invention is executed on a mobile terminal having a touch panel, and operates by operating a 3D model object in a virtual space. The game realized by the game program belongs to the genre of action RPG. Specifically, it is a so-called full 3D game in which all objects in the virtual space are produced using 3D.

  The mobile terminal may be a smartphone 1 or the like as shown in FIG. The smartphone 1 includes a touch panel 2, and a player can operate a game character via the touch panel 2. In addition, a portable terminal is not restricted to the smart phone 1, For example, what kind of thing may be sufficient if it is a terminal provided with touchscreens, such as devices, such as PDA and a tablet computer.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the smartphone 1 includes a CPU 3, a main memory 4, an auxiliary memory 5, a transmission / reception unit 6, a display unit 7, and an input unit 8 that are connected to each other via a bus. Of these, the main memory 3 is composed of, for example, a DRAM, and the auxiliary memory 4 is composed of, for example, an HDD. The auxiliary memory 4 stores a game program according to the present embodiment. The game program is developed on the main memory 3 and executed by the CPU 2. Note that the main memory 3 also temporarily stores data generated while the CPU 3 is operating in accordance with the game program and data used by the CPU 3. The transmission / reception unit 5 establishes a connection between the smartphone 1 and the network under the control of the CPU 3. The display unit 7 and the input unit 8 according to the present embodiment correspond to the touch panel 2 (details will be described later).

  As illustrated in FIG. 3, the touch panel 2 includes a touch sensing unit 601 that functions as the input unit 8 and a liquid crystal display unit 602 that functions as the display unit 6.

The input control unit 603 receives an input operation from the player via the touch panel. Specifically, an operation signal obtained by detecting a detection signal associated with an input operation (physical contact operation or the like on the touch panel 2) by the player in the touch-sensing unit 601 and interpreting the signal (there is a tap operation or a swipe operation). Is transmitted to the game control unit. The input control unit according to the present embodiment causes the player to select an arbitrary point within the range where the power saving priority mode is the lower limit and the quality priority mode is the upper limit (power consumption instruction operation: details will be described later).

In response to the transmitted operation signal, the game control unit 604 generates a control signal for the 3D model object according to a predetermined rule, and transmits the control signal to the moving image control unit 605. In addition, the game control unit according to the present embodiment displays a game possible time calculated from the power consumption instruction and the remaining battery level on the touch panel.

The moving image control unit generates a moving image (for example, a moving image expressing the player character walking, the player character attacking, etc.) according to the transmitted control signal, and finally displays it on the liquid crystal display unit. The moving image control unit according to the present embodiment includes a frame rate control unit. The frame rate control unit changes the frame rate of the moving image generated in response to the power consumption instruction operation among the input operations from the player within a range of 30 FPS (Frames Per Second) to 60 FPS.

  Next, the power consumption instruction operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, when the game program according to the present embodiment is executed, a window 100 for “power consumption setting” is displayed on touch panel 2 (see FIG. 1). The window 100 includes a slide gauge 110 and a slider 120 displayed so as to be movable on the slide gauge 110. The player selects the frame rate between “energy saving” which is the power saving priority mode and “high quality” which is the quality priority mode by sliding the slider 120 to the left and right of the option by touch operation.

In this embodiment, “energy saving” which is the lower limit of the slide gauge 110 is set to 0, and “high quality” which is the upper limit of the slide gauge 110 is set to N (where N> 0). Are selected by the player. In this case, the moving image control unit calculates the frame rate f by the following Equation 1 when the frame rates corresponding to “energy saving” and “high quality” are R _min and R _MAX , respectively.

Actually, when “energy saving” is selected, the frame rate is preferably set to 30 FPS, and when “high quality” is selected, the frame rate is preferably set to 60 FPS. When the lower limit “energy saving” is set to 30 FPS or less, the movement of the object is skipped (so-called frame drop state), which may hinder the progress of the game. On the other hand, when the upper limit “high quality” is set to 60 FPS or more, in addition to an increase in power consumption, an actual feeling of visual quality effect is reduced. The slider 120 is set so that the range of “energy saving” and “high quality” can be moved in steps of 100 memories. That is, the frame rate f set when the slider 120 in the window 100 is moved can be obtained by the following equation 2 where P is the slider memory position (0 to 100). For example, when the memory position of the slider 120 is 50 (just in the middle of the slide gauge), it is controlled to draw at 45 FPS.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the playable time may be displayed in conjunction with the memory position of the slider 120. The playable time may be calculated by calculating the battery consumption amount and the battery remaining amount when drawing is performed by FPS at the position of the slider 12-0. As described above, if the remaining game available time corresponding to the frame rate set for the player is presented, the player can use the game stage clear time as a guide. Thereby, the time efficiency of a game can be improved compared with the past.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, when the high quality priority mode is selected, when the possible game time calculated from the remaining battery level becomes 10 minutes or less, the mode is changed to the power saving priority mode. It is good also as displaying to prompt. Thereby, the player can enjoy the game for a longer time, and can record (save) the game when the scenario of the game is settled. Furthermore, it is possible to prevent a situation in which the power of the mobile terminal is suddenly turned off because the game is too enthusiastic.

  Note that the display in FIG. 6 may be displayed, for example, when a high-quality is selected and a communication battle or cooperation battle is performed with a plurality of players via a network. Further, particularly in this case, the game mode may be automatically changed to the energy saving mode when the available game time becomes 10 minutes or less. This prevents problems such as the loss of monetary costs (charged items, etc.) required for game play because one of his own smartphones was turned off and the other party's game was forcibly terminated. Can do.

  FIG. 7 shows the power consumption when an action game consisting of full 3D is executed on a smartphone terminal for every 10 FPS from 30 FPS to 60 FPS. In the present embodiment, the energy saving mode (30 FPS) can reduce power consumption by nearly 30% compared to the high quality mode (60 FPS). Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the activation time of the mobile terminal can be increased by 1.4 times. In addition, the terminal used for verification uses “XPERIA A SO-04E” manufactured by Sony Mobile Communications, and measures the time from the state of 100% remaining battery power to the automatic power-off of the terminal. The average value was taken (numbers less than 1 minute of the average value were rounded down).

1 Smartphone 2 Touch Panel 3 CPU
4 Main memory 5 Auxiliary memory 6 Transmission / reception unit 7 Display unit 8 Input unit 100, 200 Window 710, 720 Direction indication display

Claims (4)

A game program related to a game executed on a mobile terminal having a touch panel and progressing by operating a 3D model object in a virtual space,
In the mobile terminal,
An input control unit for receiving an input operation from a player via the touch panel;
A game control unit that controls the 3D model object in response to the input operation; and
Function as a moving image control unit that generates a moving image according to the control of the 3D model object and displays the moving image on the touch panel;
The moving image control unit includes a frame rate control unit that changes a frame rate of the moving image within a predetermined range in accordance with a power consumption instruction in the input operation.
The predetermined range includes at least a range of 30 FPS (Frames Per Second) to 60 FPS,
The input control unit causes the player to select an arbitrary point between the power saving priority mode corresponding to the lower limit of the predetermined range and the high quality priority mode corresponding to the upper limit of the predetermined range as the power consumption instruction. ,
In the terminal,
Wherein the game control unit that displays the power consumption indication and the battery remaining amount and the game can time calculated from the touch panel,
Game program. A game program related to a game executed on a mobile terminal having a touch panel and progressing by operating a 3D model object in a virtual space,
In the mobile terminal,
An input control unit for receiving an input operation from a player via the touch panel;
A game control unit that controls the 3D model object in response to the input operation; and
Function as a moving image control unit that generates a moving image according to the control of the 3D model object and displays the moving image on the touch panel;
The moving image control unit includes a frame rate control unit that changes a frame rate of the moving image within a predetermined range in accordance with a power consumption instruction in the input operation.
The predetermined range includes at least a range of 30 FPS (Frames Per Second) to 60 FPS,
The input control unit causes the player to select an arbitrary point between the power saving priority mode corresponding to the lower limit of the predetermined range and the high quality priority mode corresponding to the upper limit of the predetermined range as the power consumption instruction. ,
When the high quality priority mode is selected, the game control unit prompts the user to change to the power saving priority mode when the available game time calculated from the remaining battery charge becomes a predetermined time or less. Is displayed on the touch panel,
Game program. A game program according to claim 2 ,
The game displays the 3D model object corresponding to each of the plurality of players in the virtual space by communicating the mobile terminals of the plurality of players via a wireless network.
When the communication is performed in a state in which the high quality priority mode is selected, the game control unit automatically detects when the game possible time calculated from the battery remaining amount becomes the predetermined time or less. To change to the power saving priority mode,
Game program. A storage medium comprising the game program according to any one of claims 1 to 3 .

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