JP6300289B1 - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a gaming machine capable of improving the preference of image displacement effects. From a first state in which a reference image is displayed in a display device having a display area 911 on which an image for presentation is displayed and the reference image 10 is displayed in the display area 911, the reference image 10 is displayed with respect to the display area 911. And an effect executing means capable of executing an image displacement effect that changes to the second state displayed as if the image has shifted, and the image displacement effect is the reference in the display area 911 in the second state. A gaming machine 1 in which a specific image may be displayed in a specific area 911s that is an area other than the area where the image 10 is displayed. [Selection] Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine.

  A gaming machine capable of executing an effect (referred to as an image displacement effect) for changing from a state in which an image is displayed in the display area to a state in which the image is shifted from the display area is known (for example, , See Patent Document 1 below).

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-198359

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a gaming machine capable of improving the preference of image displacement effects.

A gaming machine according to the present invention, which has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, includes a display device having a display area on which an identification symbol for informing the determination result and an image for production are displayed, and the identification in the display area. An effect capable of executing an image displacement effect that changes from a first state in which a reference image including a pattern is displayed to a second state in which the entire reference image is displayed with respect to the display area. Execution means, and in the image displacement effect, display in a specific area other than the area where the reference image is displayed in the display area in the second state, and display in the display area in the first state. Depending on whether or not a predetermined image that has not been displayed is displayed, a probability that an event advantageous to the player will occur is suggested .

  According to the gaming machine according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the preference of the image displacement effect.

It is a front view of the gaming machine according to the present embodiment. It is the figure which showed the identification symbol and the hold | maintenance symbol displayed on the display apparatus (display area). It is the figure which showed an example of the image displacement effect (a 1st effect aspect and a 2nd effect aspect). It is a figure for demonstrating an example of specific production. It is a figure for demonstrating a 2nd example. It is a figure for demonstrating a 4th example and a 5th example. It is a figure for demonstrating a 6th example. It is a figure for demonstrating a 7th example.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a gaming machine 1 according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. First, the overall configuration of the gaming machine 1 will be briefly described with reference to FIG.

  The gaming machine 1 includes a game board 90. The game board 90 is formed of a substantially square plywood, and a guide rail 903 that forms a path for guiding a game ball launched by operating the launching device 908 (launching handle) to the gaming area 902 has a substantially arc shape. It is provided as follows.

  In the game area 902, a display device 91, a start winning opening 904, a big winning opening 906, an out opening, and the like are provided. The display area 911 of the display device 91 is an area that can be viewed through an opening 901 formed in the game board 90. Note that the shape and the like of the display region 911 can be changed as appropriate (the shape and size of the display region 911 can be changed by changing the shape and size of the opening 901 and the shape and size of the display device 91 itself). .

  In addition, the game area 902 is provided with a plurality of game nails as obstacles that change the flow-down mode of the game balls when the flow-down game balls collide. The game ball flowing down the game area 902 changes into various modes depending on the condition when it collides with the game nail.

  In such a gaming machine 1, a game ball is launched toward the game area 902 by operating the launching device 908. When a game ball flowing down the game area 902 wins a winning opening such as the start winning opening 904 or the big winning opening 906, a predetermined number of winning balls are paid out by the payout device.

  The jackpot lottery is executed by a winning determination means provided on a control board (not shown) triggered by winning a game ball in the start winning opening 904 (a plurality of such starting winning openings may be provided). Specifically, when a game ball is won at the start winning opening 904, a numerical value (win / fail judgment information) is acquired from a random number source, and if the numerical value is the same as a predetermined jackpot value, the jackpot If they are different, they will be out of sync. In this embodiment, notification of the determination result is started in the order in which the numerical values are acquired (so-called fluctuation is started), but when a certain numerical value is acquired, it is acquired before that. When the determination result based on the numerical value is informed, the determination result based on the certain numerical value is stored in a storage unit provided on a control board (not shown) until the determination result is started. The maximum stored number (maximum number of holds) of a numerical value (hereinafter also simply referred to as “hold”) for which the notification of the determination of success / failure has not yet been started can be set as appropriate. The maximum number of reservations that can be stored by the storage unit in the present embodiment is four per kind of start winning prize opening 904. The fact that the numerical value (whether or not determination information) is stored in the storage means is displayed as a reserved symbol 80 (see FIG. 2). In this embodiment, it is determined whether or not the acquired numerical value is a numerical value that is a big hit at the time when the notification of the determination of correctness is started. The determination result itself may be stored (in this case, the determination result itself corresponds to the determination information). Moreover, the acquired numerical value is also used as a numerical value for determining the specific content of the effect for informing the determination result.

  Note that the description of the components of the gaming machine 1 that are not related to the present invention, such as the frame of the gaming machine 1, the lower plate and the upper plate for storing the game balls, is omitted. About these, the thing of the structure similar to a well-known game machine is applicable.

  In the present embodiment, in the same manner as a known gaming machine, the player is notified of the result of the success / failure determination by a combination of identification symbols 70 (see FIG. 2) displayed in the display area 911 of the display device 91. Specifically, an identification symbol group 70g including a plurality of types of identification symbols 70 (left identification symbol group 70gL, middle identification symbol group 70gC, right identification symbol group 70gR) starts to change, and finally each identification symbol group 70g. The one identifying symbol 70 is selected and stopped. In the case where the jackpot is won, the combination of the identification symbols 70 selected and stopped from each of the identification symbol groups 70g is a predetermined combination (for example, a set of three identical identification symbols 70). If it is out of place, it becomes a combination other than that (other than the combination that is a big hit). In each figure, only “numbers (characters)” constituting the identification symbol 70 are shown, but a symbol in which the numerals and characters are combined can be set as the identification symbol 70.

  Various effects are executed as effects for notifying the determination result. In the present embodiment, an image displacement effect can be executed as a kind of the effect. That is, the image displacement effect can be generated as a part of a series of effects for notifying the target determination result. Hereinafter, the image displacement effect will be described in detail. Unless otherwise specified, “image” (reference image 10 or the like) in the following description includes both a still image and a moving image.

  The basic mode of the image displacement effect is that the reference image 10 is displayed with respect to the display area 911 from the first state (the state shown in FIG. 3A) in which the reference image 10 is displayed in the display area 911 of the display device 91. Is displaced to the second state (the state shown in FIG. 3B or FIG. 3C) displayed as if they were shifted. The reference image 10 is based on an image displayed during an effect that was executed before the occurrence of the image displacement effect (hereinafter, the effect may be referred to as a prior effect). Any specific aspect of the pre-production may be used. A plurality of types of preliminary effects that may occur before the image displacement effect may be set, or may be limited to only one type. In the present embodiment, the image of the prior effect that was displayed immediately before the occurrence of the image displacement effect is taken over by the reference image 10 in the image displacement effect. It can be said that the pre-effect image displayed immediately before the occurrence of the image displacement effect is an image displayed in the entire display area 911. However, only a part of the image displayed in the preliminary presentation may be displaced as the reference image 10. The reference image 10 is a still image (here, the still image means that the content of the image represented by the reference image 10 is maintained so that it can be identified by the player, and the entire image is displaced. In other words, the entire reference image 10 is displaced with respect to the display area 911 while maintaining the state of the image of the prior effect displayed immediately before the occurrence of the image displacement effect. If the reference image 10 is a moving image (the moving image here means that the content of the image represented by the reference image 10 changes over time), the prior effect displayed immediately before the occurrence of the image displacement effect The aspect of the reference image 10 is continuously changed as it is from the image of, and the entire reference image 10 is displaced with respect to the display area 911.

  Various displacement modes of the reference image 10 relative to the display area 911 can be considered. In the present embodiment, the display (as if it is displaced in a three-dimensional manner) is as if the reference image 10 is displaced so as to be inclined with respect to the plane direction (referring to the direction along the display area 911 of the display device 91; the same applies hereinafter). Display). More specifically, in the present embodiment, the display as if the reference image 10 was rotated so that the left edge of the reference image 10 is on the back side and the right edge of the reference image 10 is on the near side. (See FIGS. 3B and 3C). However, this displacement mode is merely an example. A display as if the reference image 10 was displaced along the plane direction (in any direction, up, down, left, or right) (display as if it was displaced two-dimensionally) may be made. Moreover, it is good also as an aspect (for example, the aspect which the reference image 10 shakes) as if the displacement amount of the reference image 10 changes with progress of time. Moreover, it is good also as an aspect (For example, the aspect in which the outline of the reference image 10 is distorted) in which the outline shape of the reference image 10 changes. Further, a mode in which a part of the reference image 10 is located outside the display area 911 due to the displacement of the reference image 10 (a mode in which a part is completely cut off) may be employed. Moreover, it is good also as an effect form that the reference image 10 returns to the original again when the image displacement effect ends, or the reference image 10 can be shifted to a state in which a completely different image is displayed without returning to the original. It is good also as a simple production form.

  Since the image of the prior effect displayed immediately before the occurrence of the image displacement effect is an image displayed on the entire display area 911, no matter what the displacement mode of the reference image 10 in the image displacement effect is. When the image displacement effect is generated, an area where the reference image 10 is displayed in the display area 911 and an area other than that (hereinafter referred to as a specific area 911s) are generated (see FIGS. 3B and 3C). . The image displacement effect in the present embodiment also uses the specific area 911s. It can be said that the image displayed in the specific area 911s is a background image of the reference image 10 displaced with respect to the display area 911 (an image for making the reference image 10 appear to be displaced with respect to the display area 911). The background image is also used for the notice.

  As an aspect of the image displacement effect in the present embodiment, at least the first effect mode (see FIG. 3B) in which the specific image 22 is displayed in the specific area 911s and the normal image different from the specific image 22 in the specific area 911s. A second effect mode (see FIG. 3C) in which the image 21 is displayed is set. The second production mode is a standard production (default production), and the first production mode is more likely to be a big hit than the time when the second production mode occurs (hereinafter referred to as (hit). This is an effect (so-called chance-up effect) suggesting that the reliability has increased.

  Hereinafter, only basic aspects of the normal image 21 and the specific image 22 will be described. A different image may be displayed together with the normal image 21 and the specific image 22. For example, an image indicating that the reference image 10 is displaced with respect to the display area 911 may be displayed on the normal image 21 or the specific image 22 or separately from the normal image 21 or the specific image 22. . As this type of image, a linear image extending in the displacement direction displayed in order to clarify the displacement of the reference image 10 can be exemplified.

  First, the second effect mode will be described. The normal image 21 displayed in the second effect mode may basically be a mode different from the specific image 22 displayed in the first effect mode. However, the second production mode is set as a simple background image in consideration of the relationship with the first production mode set as a so-called chance-up production (in consideration of the default production). Is preferred. For example, it is conceivable that the background image of the reference image 10 is clarified by setting the normal image 21 as an image composed only of colors. The normal image 21 in the present embodiment is an image of a single color (for example, black) (in order to make the drawings easy to understand, the normal image 21 is represented as a plain image in each drawing). When the display device 91 is a display device that displays an image using a combination of a plurality of pixels, the pixels constituting the specific area 911s are turned off (no signal is transmitted to the pixels) and displayed in the specific area 911s. The image to be processed may be a normal image 21 such as black. Even in such a case, it is assumed that the normal image 21 is “displayed” in the specific area 911 s.

  The first effect aspect will be described. The specific image 22 displayed in the first effect mode may basically be a mode different from the normal image 21 displayed in the second effect mode. For example, the normal image 21 may be a black image and the specific image 22 may be a red image. However, since the first production mode is set as a so-called chance-up production, it is preferable that the first production mode is not a simple background image. The specific image 22 in the present embodiment includes a predetermined character image as an opportunity display 221 indicating that the chance is up (an image representing the opportunity display 221 corresponds to an additional image in the present invention) (FIG. 3B). reference). From the player's point of view, it is possible to grasp that the effect is an aspect different from the first effect aspect by looking at the character image. Various modes of the opportunity display 221 can be considered. For example, a display including characters such as “chance” may be used as the opportunity display 221. Moreover, it is good also as an aspect by which the some opportunity display 221 is displayed.

  The part other than the opportunity display 221 in the specific image 22 may be the same as that of the normal image 21. That is, the specific image 22 is not required to have an aspect (actually superimposed) as if the opportunity display 221 (additional image) is superimposed on the image having the same aspect as the normal image 21. It is preferable that the image displayed on the assumption that the normal image 21 is displayed on the specific area 911s may be displayed on the specific area 911s other than the part on which the opportunity display 221 is displayed. In the present embodiment, since the normal image 21 is a black image, whether or not the opportunity display 221 is superimposed on the black image in the same mode as the normal image so that the opportunity display 221 is displayed on the near side. Such a specific image 22 is obtained. If the layer constituting the opportunity display 221 in the specific image 22 and the layer constituting the other portion (the black solid color portion) are different layers (the description of “layer” will be described later), image control is easy. is there. By doing in this way, the player who experienced both the first effect mode and the second effect mode grasps that the specific image 22 is an image in which an opportunity display 221 is added to the normal image 21. become. That is, the possibility that the opportunity display 221 is emphasized and the display is missed is reduced. Further, the opportunity display 221 being displayed means that the first effect mode is an opportunity (as compared to the second effect mode).

  In the present embodiment, a specific effect is set as an effect that may occur after the image displacement effect. The specific effect is an effect indicating that the jackpot reliability is increased by the generation of the effect. In the image displacement effect, the probability of shifting to the specific effect is set higher when the first effect mode is executed than when the second effect mode is executed. That is, it can be said that which effect mode is executed in the image displacement effect suggests a probability that the game progresses advantageous to the player. More specifically, in this embodiment, it can be said that which effect mode is executed in the image displacement effect indirectly indicates the jackpot reliability. The specific effect in the present embodiment is an effect called “XX zone” (see FIG. 4).

  The opportunity display 221 (character image) included in the specific image 22 is the same type of image as that displayed in the specific effect (meaning that it can be viewed from the player's perspective) and is completely the same. Is not required). In the present embodiment, during the “XX zone” set as the specific effect, the character image displayed as the opportunity display 221 is a part of the background of the changing identification symbol 70 (the image 24 in FIG. 4 is indicated by a dotted line). As shown). That is, it can be said that the opportunity display 221 (additional image) included in the specific image 22 easily suggests that the probability that a specific effect that occurs afterwards has increased has increased.

  Note that the reliability is not indirectly indicated as described above, but may be an effect that directly indicates the reliability. In other words, in a mode in which the result of determining whether or not the target is successful is notified by the ending of a series of effects including an image displacement effect, the case where the first effect aspect is executed is more than the case where the second effect aspect is executed. The configuration is set so that the probability that the result of whether or not the target is appropriate will reach a ending with a big hit.

  As described above, in the gaming machine 1 according to the present embodiment, the probability that the game progresses in an advantageous manner for the player using the specific area 911s of the display area 911 generated by the displacement of the reference image 10 in the image displacement effect. Will be suggested. That is, it is excellent in that the region where the background image or the like for indicating that the reference image 10 is displaced is also used for reliability suggestion.

  Further, if the configuration is such that the opportunity display 221 is displayed as in the first rendering mode of the present embodiment, the rendering mode is as if a character or the like showing the opportunity display 221 is hidden behind the reference image 10. Is possible.

  In particular, if the effect is as if the reference image 10 “rotates” with respect to the display area 911 as in the present embodiment, this effect becomes even more remarkable. Specifically, in the present embodiment, the opportunity image display 221 is displayed after the reference image 10 is rotated like a “door” so that the left edge is on the back side and the right edge is on the front side. It is displayed on the right side of the reference image 10. Therefore, as a result of the rotation of the reference image 10 like a “door”, it is possible to create an effect form as if a character or the like showing the opportunity display 221 lurking behind the “door” appeared (temporarily) If the rotation direction is opposite, the positional relationship between the rotation direction and the opportunity display 221 becomes unnatural, and thus such an effect is not achieved.

  Hereinafter, specific examples in which the gaming machine 1 according to the embodiment is improved, modified, or embodied will be described. In addition, it is good also as a structure which applied combining the technical matter demonstrated using the following specific examples.

First Specific Example The image displacement effect is an effect that can occur at one or more predetermined timings. Then, at the predetermined timing, an image displacement effect may be generated or may not be generated. When the image displacement effect occurs at the timing, the probability that the game progresses advantageous to the player is set higher than when the image displacement effect does not occur.

In the case of such a configuration, the state of effects at a predetermined timing is roughly divided as follows.
1) Image displacement effect non-occurrence 2) Image displacement effect generation of second effect mode 3) Image displacement effect generation of first effect mode

  From the player's standpoint, the situation of 1) is the most unfavorable situation, and the situation of 3) is the most preferred situation. If the player already knows the timing at which the image displacement effect can occur, first, it is expected that the image displacement effect will occur at that timing. When the image displacement effect is generated, it is expected that the first effect mode is generated (the specific image 22 is displayed). In this way, the player expects an image displacement effect to occur as the first step, and expects that the first effect mode will occur as the second step when the first step is cleared. It becomes a production form.

Second Specific Example The image displayed in the image displacement effect includes the reference image 10 and the image (the normal image 21 or the specific image 22) displayed in the specific area 911s. In controlling an image displayed in the display area 911, a method of setting a plurality of control target layers (hereinafter, formally referred to as layer control) is known. An image displayed using such a method When controlling the image, the layer of the image displayed in the specific area 911s is preferably different from the layer of the reference image 10 (see FIG. 5). As a matter of course, the reference image 10 is displayed in front of the image displayed in the specific area 911s (the layer of the reference image 10 has priority). Note that each of the image layer and the reference image 10 layer displayed in the specific area 911s may be composed of one layer or a plurality of layers. “The layer of the image displayed in the specific area 911 s is different from the layer of the reference image 10” means that one or more layers constituting the image displayed in the specific area 911 s constitute the reference image 10. Means that it does not overlap with any one or more layers.

  In accordance with the above embodiment, the aspect of the reference image 10 can be the same regardless of whether the first effect aspect occurs or the second effect aspect occurs. The images displayed in the specific area 911s differ between the first effect mode and the second effect mode. Therefore, by controlling the layer of the reference image 10 and the layer of the image displayed in the specific area 911s, it becomes easy to control the image in the image displacement effect.

○ Third specific example In the image displacement effect, various display modes are possible for the identification symbol 70 indicating the determination result and the hold symbol 80 indicating the presence of the hold. Specifically, control modes such as the following first display mode to third display mode can be exemplified.

First display mode The reference image 10 is displayed so that the identification symbol 70 and the reserved symbol 80 are included. That is, the identification symbol 70 and the reserved symbol 80 are configured to be displaced or deformed in accordance with the displacement or deformation of the reference image 10. Since the identification symbol 70 and the reserved symbol 80 are displayed in a state before the image displacement effect occurs, the entire image including these symbols is displaced. Thereby, the displacement of the image can be made more realistic.

Second Display Mode Control is performed so that the reference image 10 includes the identification symbol 70 but does not include the reserved symbol 80. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, although the identification symbol 70 is displaced or deformed according to the displacement or deformation of the reference image 10, the display mode of the reserved symbol 80 is not changed. Control is performed so that the image including the identification symbol 70 displayed before the image displacement effect is displaced as the reference image 10, and the displacement of the image is expressed realistically. On the other hand, if the reserved symbol 80 is deformed according to the production, it becomes difficult for the player to grasp the current number of reserved symbols and the like, so that the display mode of the reserved symbol 80 is not changed.

Third display mode Control is performed so that the reference image 10 does not include both the identification symbol 70 and the reserved symbol 80. That is, even if the reference image 10 is displaced or deformed, the display pattern of the identification symbol 70 and the reserved symbol 80 is not changed. The identification symbol 70 is a symbol for indicating the result of the determination, and the reserved symbol 80 is a symbol for grasping the current number of reserved symbols. Also, the display mode of these symbols is prevented from changing.

  If the player continues the game during the image displacement effect, the display mode of the reserved symbol 80 (the number of the reserved symbols 80) may change, but the display mode of the identification symbol 70 does not change (predetermined in advance). In other words, it is most preferable to select the control method of the second display mode among the first display mode to the third display mode. . That is, since it is better to show the hold status to the player even during the image displacement effect, the display mode of the hold symbol 80 is maintained, while the status of the identification symbol 70 during the image displacement effect is as high as the hold symbol 80 player. It can be said that the second display mode in which the displacement of the reference image 10 is made realistic by using the identification symbol 70 is regarded as the most balanced display mode.

  In addition, even if it employs any of the first display mode to the third display mode, one or a plurality of layers constituting the reference image 10 (excluding the identification symbol 70) and the specific region 911s are included in the layer control method. One or a plurality of layers composing an image other than the reference image 10 (normal image 21 or specific image 22) displayed on the screen, one or a plurality of layers composing the image of the identification symbol 70, or an image of the reserved symbol 80 One or a plurality of layers are preferably configured to be different from each other.

Fourth Specific Example The displacement mode of the reference image 10 may not be constant. That is, as the manner in which the reference image 10 is displaced, a plurality of different displacement modes may be set. For example, the first displacement mode (see FIGS. 6B-1 and 6B-2) that is as if the reference image 10 has been displaced upward, and whether the reference image 10 has been displaced to the right It is set as the structure by which the 2nd displacement aspect (refer FIG.6 (c-1), (c-2)) which is such an aspect was set. In addition, it is preferable that the probability that the game progresses advantageous to the player is set to be different depending on which of the plurality of types of displacement modes has occurred.

○ Fifth specific example (example where the fourth specific example is further developed)
When it is set as the structure by which the displacement aspect of the multiple types of reference | standard image 10 was set, it is set as the structure by which the specific image 22 (opportunity display 221) according to each displacement aspect was set. For example, when the first effect mode of the image displacement effect in the first displacement mode occurs, one or more of the first specific images 22a are displayed, and the first effect of the image displacement effect in the second displacement mode is displayed. When an aspect occurs, one or a plurality of types of second specific images 22b different from the first specific image 22a are displayed. For example, the one or more types of first specific images 22a include characters as the opportunity display 221 (see FIG. 6B-1), and the one or more types of second specific images 22b include characters as the opportunity display 221. (See FIG. 6C-1), it is possible to clarify that the types of both images are different.

  Various other methods for indicating that the types of both images are different are also conceivable. Both the first specific image 22a and the second specific image 22b include characters as the opportunity display 221, but the type of one character is different from the type of the other character (an image representing different characters from the viewpoint of the player). It is also possible to grasp that it is. Further, both the first specific image 22a and the second specific image 22b include characters as the opportunity display 221, but the mode of one character (font, size, etc.) and the mode of the other character may be different. Good.

  By adopting such a configuration, it is possible to provide an easy-to-understand presentation form in which the displacement mode of the reference image 10 and the type of the specific image 22 to be displayed are related.

Sixth Specific Example A section image 23 that partitions both images may be displayed between the reference image 10 and the image displayed in the specific area 911s (see FIG. 7). This aspect can also be regarded as an aspect in which the reference image 10 is displayed as including an image that emphasizes its outline. The partition image 23 may have any specific form as long as it has a shape as if it is along the display area 911 before the image displacement effect occurs. With such a configuration, it is possible to clarify the separation between the reference image 10 and the image displayed in the specific area 911s.

○ Seventh Specific Example When the first effect mode occurs, the character image or the like that is the opportunity display 221 included in the specific image 22 is set as an effect form as if the reference image 10 is displaced (see FIG. 8). In other words, the presentation form is as if the reference image 10 is displaced by the display included in the specific image 22 (the reference image 10 is moved or the movement of the reference image 10 is promoted). Can do. Thus, it is possible to make the image concerning the displacement of the reference image 10 which is a basic aspect of the image displacement effect interesting by using the specific image 22 indicating that the chance is up. .

  Moreover, when setting it as such a structure, it is good also as a thing with which the displacement aspect of the reference image 10 at the time of a 1st effect aspect differs from the displacement aspect of the reference image 10 at the time of a 2nd effect aspect. That is, the second rendering mode is a mode as if the reference image 10 is automatically displaced. In the first rendering mode, the reference image 10 is displaced by the display included in the specific image 22 (of the reference image 10). As the configuration is such that the reference image 10 is greatly displaced or violently displaced in the first rendering mode compared to the second rendering mode, the specific image 22 It is preferable that the effect produced by the display included is emphasized.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

  The gaming machine 1 according to the above embodiment is a so-called pachinko gaming machine, but if it is a gaming machine provided with a display device for production, the same technical idea can be applied to different gaming machines such as a rotating gaming machine. Applicable.

Specific means (game machines) obtained from the above embodiment are listed below.
・ Means 1
A display device having a display area in which an image for performance is displayed;
An effect execution capable of executing an image displacement effect that changes from the first state in which the reference image is displayed in the display area to the second state in which the reference image is displayed as if it has shifted from the display area. Means,
With
In the image displacement effect, the specific image may be displayed in a specific area which is an area other than the area where the reference image is displayed in the display area in the second state.
According to the above gaming machine, it is possible to execute a highly interesting effect that a special image may be displayed in a specific area generated by the occurrence of the image displacement effect.

・ Means 2
As an aspect that can occur as the image displacement effect,
A first effect mode in which the specific image is displayed in the specific area;
A second effect mode in which a normal image different from the specific image is displayed in the specific region;
The gaming machine according to means 1, wherein: is set.
Thus, it becomes possible to further improve the preference of the effect by setting the effect mode in which the normal image is displayed and the effect mode in which the specific image different from the normal image is displayed.

・ Means 3
It is set so that the probability that the game progresses more favorably to the player is higher when the first effect mode occurs than when the second effect mode occurs. A gaming machine according to means 2.
Thus, it can be set as the setting which suggests the probability which becomes the progress of a game advantageous to a player with the production | presentation aspect performed.

・ Means 4
4. The gaming machine according to means 2 or 3, wherein the specific image has a form in which an additional image is superimposed on an image having the same form as the normal image.

・ Means 5
The gaming machine according to any one of means 2 to 4, wherein the normal image is a single color image.
With such a configuration, the normal image at the time of occurrence of the second effect mode can be set to the effect mode as if it were the background image of the displaced reference image.

・ Means 6
A specific effect that may occur after the occurrence of the image displacement effect is set,
6. The gaming machine according to claim 4, wherein the additional image is an image suggesting that the specific effect occurs, or the means 5 quoting the means 4.
With such a configuration, it is possible to easily show that the first effect mode suggests the possibility that a specific effect will subsequently occur.

・ Means 7
The means 6 is characterized in that the probability that the specific effect is generated is set to be higher when the first effect is generated than when the second effect is generated. Gaming machine.
In this way, if it is suggested that the probability that the specific effect is generated is increased by the first effect mode, the specific image displayed when the first effect mode is generated and the specific effect generated thereafter are associated with each other. It can be configured.

・ Means 8
One or more predetermined timings are set as the timing at which the image displacement effect can occur,
It is set so that the probability that the game progresses more favorably to the player is higher when the image displacement effect occurs than when the image displacement effect does not occur at the predetermined timing. A gaming machine according to any one of means 1 to means 7, characterized in that:
In this way, by setting such that an image displacement effect may not occur at a predetermined timing, variations in the effects that can occur increase, which contributes to an increase in game preference.

1 gaming machine 10 reference image 21 normal image 22 specific image 221 opportunity display 22a first specific image 22b second specific image 23 partition image 70 identification symbol 80 hold symbol 91 display device 911 display region 911s specific region

Claims (1)

A display device having a display area for displaying an identification symbol and an effect image for informing the determination result;
Performs an image displacement effect that changes from the first state in which the reference image including the identification symbol is displayed in the display area to the second state in which the entire reference image is displayed as if it has shifted from the display area. Production execution means capable of performing,
With
In the image displacement effect, a predetermined image that is not displayed in the display area in the first state in a specific area that is an area other than the area in which the reference image is displayed in the display area in the second state. A gaming machine characterized in that a probability that an event advantageous to the player will occur thereafter is suggested depending on whether or not is displayed .

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