JPH09234288A - Image display apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the contents of a game exciting when a puzzle game is played by operating pieces on a board displayed on a display screen. SOLUTION: An operating condition determining unit 26 determines whether operation by the user is adapted to the rule or not on the basis of an event inputted according to the operation of the user. Further, when a split condition determining unit 27 determines that movement of a piece satisfies a split condition, an image synthesizer 23 forms a copy of the piece image, and further, displays it so as to lead the piece to a position to which the piece can be moved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image display device for playing a puzzle by operating a piece on a board displayed on a display screen, and more particularly, to an automatic movement of the piece. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A puzzle game (solitaire) that can be performed by one person using pieces on a board is known. This puzzle game is
For example, as shown in FIG. 11, a piece (ball) 2 is arranged on the board 1. Initially, only one piece arrangement position 3 is empty, and all the other piece arrangement positions have pieces 2 arranged therein. The piece 2 can be moved to an empty piece arrangement position by jumping over one adjacent piece in the vertical and horizontal directions. Otherwise it cannot be moved.
Then, the other jumped piece is removed from the board. In the state of FIG. 2, the pieces 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d can be moved to the piece arrangement position 3. And, for example,
By moving the piece 2a to the piece arrangement position 3, the piece 2e can be removed. The above operation of skipping one piece of a piece is repeated to remove pieces from the top of the board 1. When there are no movable pieces, the game ends. Finally, if you can reduce the number of pieces to the specified number, you will win.

By the way, the above puzzle game can be played using a computer. The present inventor has earnestly studied whether the above-mentioned puzzle game can be made more exciting when it is executed by a computer, and has completed the present invention.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and when the puzzle play is performed by operating the pieces on the board displayed on the display screen, the contents of the game are changed. An object is to provide an image display device that is more exciting.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a means for generating an image for displaying a board having a plurality of frame arrangement positions on an image display device,
A means for generating an image for displaying one or a plurality of frames, a means for displaying the generated image on a display screen, an instructing means for instructing an image of one frame and its movement based on a user operation, The instruction by the instruction means directs the image of the first piece from the current piece arrangement position to an empty piece arrangement position which sandwiches the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position together with the present piece arrangement position. Is the content of the movement, the image of the one piece is moved to the empty piece arrangement position, and the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position is displayed as the present piece. A means for erasing from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the arrangement position, and an image of the piece exists at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the piece arrangement position of the movement destination of the image of the piece,
Further, when the piece arrangement position sandwiching the piece arrangement position adjacent to the movement destination piece arrangement position together with the movement destination piece arrangement position is empty, a copy of the image of the piece at the movement destination piece arrangement position is generated, and A means for moving to an empty piece arrangement position and erasing the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position is provided. There is.

According to this configuration, the moved pieces are displayed as if they were divided and moved, so that the contents of the game can be made exciting.

In this structure, the adjacent piece arrangement positions may be vertically or horizontally adjacent piece arrangement positions.

Further, there may be provided means for adding points corresponding to the erased image of the frame.

Further, it is possible to make the score different according to the mode of erasing the image of the frame.

Further, according to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a means for generating an image for displaying a board having a plurality of frame arrangement positions and one or a plurality of frames are displayed on the image display device. Means for generating an image to be displayed, means for displaying the generated image on a display screen, instruction means for instructing an image of one frame and its movement based on a user operation, and instructions by the instruction means The image of 1 piece,
When the content is a movement from the current piece arrangement position to an empty piece arrangement position that sandwiches the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the current piece arrangement position together with the current piece arrangement position, Means for moving the image of one piece to the empty piece arrangement position, and erasing the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position; There is provided means for automatically moving the image of a predetermined frame or a copy thereof when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Also in this configuration, since the images and copies of the pieces are automatically moved independently of the user's operation, the contents of the game can be made exciting.

Further, according to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a means for generating an image for displaying a board having a plurality of frame arrangement positions and one or a plurality of frames are displayed on the image display device. To generate an image to be displayed, a means to display the generated image on a display screen, an instruction means to instruct an image of one frame and its movement based on a user's operation, and an instruction by the instruction means are predetermined. When the first condition of is satisfied, a means for moving the image of the first frame to a designated position, and when a predetermined second condition is satisfied,
A means for executing the movement of the image of the frame is provided in a mode not instructed by the instructing means.

Also in this configuration, the image of the piece automatically moves independently of the user's operation, so that the contents of the game can be made exciting.

Further, according to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, in the image display program product, a step of generating an image for displaying a board having a plurality of frame arrangement positions, and one or a plurality of frames. Is displayed, a step of displaying the generated image on the display screen, an instruction step of instructing the image of one frame and its movement based on a user's operation, and an instruction in the instruction step , Moving the image of the above-mentioned 1 piece from the current piece arrangement position to an empty piece arrangement position which sandwiches the image of the piece of the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position with the present piece arrangement position. If you are
Moving the image of the piece of the piece to the empty piece arrangement position and deleting the image of the piece of the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position; An image of a piece exists at a piece arrangement position adjacent to the piece arrangement position of the moving destination of the image, and a piece arrangement position sandwiching the piece arrangement position adjacent to the piece arrangement position of the moving destination with the piece arrangement position of the moving destination is empty. At that time, a copy of the image of the piece at the destination piece arrangement position is generated and moved to the empty piece arrangement position, and the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position is moved to the move. The step of erasing from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the previous piece arrangement position is used for causing the computer to execute.

Also in this configuration, the moved pieces are displayed as if they were split and moved, so that the contents of the game can be made exciting.

[0016]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an information processing environment to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, an image display system 10 for playing a puzzle game is realized as a program executed on a computer 11. The computer 11 may be, for example, an ordinary personal computer.
The computer 11 includes a display 12 and a mouse device 1.
3, a keyboard 14, other hardware 15, an operating system 16, a window management system 17, an input / output control system 18, and the like. Of course, the configuration of the computer 11 can be variously changed.

FIG. 2 schematically shows the image display system 10. In this figure, the operation input section 21 is an operation on the screen of the user, for example, the mouse device 13 (FIG. 1).
Click operation (pressing / release operation of the button of the mouse device 13 within a predetermined time), drag operation (moving the mouse device while pressing the button), drop operation (drag operation releases pressing of the button), etc. A predetermined event is input. The image data storage device 22 stores image data together with other objects. The image data includes a board image and a frame image, which will be described later. The image synthesizing unit 23 synthesizes the image of the frame and the image of the board and displays them to the user. The composite image is updated according to the movement of the frame and the like, and this update adds motion to the image on the screen. The image combined by the image combining unit 23 is stored in the image memory 24, and then supplied to the display unit 25 and displayed to the user.

The operation condition determination unit 26 determines whether or not the user's operation of moving the piece complies with the rule. For example, it is determined whether or not the piece has been moved to the empty piece arrangement position by skipping another adjacent piece in the vertical and horizontal directions. The criterion for this determination is called a rule. Of course, another rule may be used to determine whether or not the rule is met. If it conforms to the rules, it is placed as it is at the destination piece placement position. If not, the piece is returned to its original position. When returning to the original position, the image synthesizing unit 23 is controlled to synthesize the image to be moved to the original position.

The division condition discriminating unit 27 causes the piece to display as if the pieces were to be split when the pieces were successfully moved to another empty piece placement position and further predetermined conditions were met. Is. Conditions for splitting pieces are, for example,
This is a case where the piece moved to the movement destination can jump to another empty piece arrangement position and jump over the other piece. When it is possible to jump over other empty pieces to a plurality of empty piece arrangement positions, the number of pieces is divided. The criteria for this division are called rules. Of course, other rules may be used.

The total score calculating unit 28 is for accumulating scores according to movement of pieces and division of pieces. The accumulated total score is sent to the image synthesis unit 23, inserted into the display image, and displayed on the display unit 25.

FIG. 3 shows the board and pieces displayed in this embodiment. This figure shows the initial state, that is, the state at the start of the game. In this figure, the board 30 is provided with, for example, 117 piece arrangement positions 31. All the pieces 32 on the ball are arranged at the piece arrangement positions 31 other than the center piece arrangement position.

In this figure, for example, a mouse device is used to drag and drop the piece 32 as shown by the arrow in the figure. This move complies with the rules, so the piece stays in its position and is jumped over (indicated by dots)
Is removed. This corresponds to the normal rules of this type of puzzle game.

The above operation continues, and the piece gradually becomes the board 3.
0 is removed from above, for example, as shown in FIG. In this state, for example, the piece is moved as indicated by the solid arrow. This move complies with the rules. Furthermore, the rules are matched for the moved pieces. That is, there exists a movable piece arrangement position of pieces as indicated by a broken circle. And there are pieces that can be jumped over. Therefore, the pieces are divided by that number, and the divided pieces are displayed so as to automatically move to the arrangement movement position as indicated by the broken arrow. This automatic movement is repeated as long as the rules are met.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the operation of the above embodiment. In FIG. 5, it is determined whether or not a predetermined operation of the user, for example, the dragging of the piece is started (S10). When a piece is dragged, a process of combining images of moving pieces is executed (S11). Then, the process of synthesizing the image of the frame movement is repeated until the drop is determined (S12). After the drop, it is determined whether the piece movement complies with the rule (S13).
If they do not match, the image is updated to generate an image in which the frame is restored (S14). If the piece movement complies with the rule, an image of the piece arranged at the piece arrangement position is generated (S15). That is, when the pieces are moved, the pieces are displayed as if they were slightly raised, so that the image of the pieces is displayed slightly larger and the pieces placed at the piece arrangement position are displayed smaller than that. In step S15, the image of the frame is returned to a small size.

Next, it is determined whether or not the conditions (rules) for dividing the pieces are met (S16). When the division condition is satisfied, the image is updated and the pieces are displayed so as to move to the movable position (S17). When the piece that has been split and moved to the movable position further satisfies the split condition, steps S16 and S17 are repeated. When the division condition is not met, it is determined whether or not there is a movable piece (S18). If there are moveable pieces, step S
Return to 10 and wait for user operation. If there is no moveable piece, the end of the game is displayed.

In this embodiment, points are given and accumulated according to the movement of pieces and the division of pieces (S19,
S20). For example, when the user moves a piece, 1 point is added, and when the piece is divided, 10 points are given for each divided number, and when a piece generated by dividing 10 points is further divided, 20 points, 20 points are given for each divided number. When the pieces generated by the division of points are further divided, 40 points are added for each piece. Similarly, points are weighted each time the division is repeated. The points are accumulated and displayed during the game and at the end of the game.

Next, a method of synthesizing an image representing a moving state of the piece from the image of the piece and the background image will be described. Here, as shown in FIG. 6, the pieces are from (a) to (b).
Think of moving to. The image of (a) and the image of (b) have a relationship of successive image frames. That is, the image of (a) is updated to create the image of (b).

FIG. 7 depicts the background board surface, and then
A method for drawing a piece that is the foreground will be described. In this case, a square mask including two pieces is generated (a). After this, a square mask is used to draw the background board surface (c). As a result, the image of the frame shown in FIG. 6B is erased. Next, a foreground piece is drawn by using a mask in the shape of a piece (d).

FIG. 8 shows a method of drawing a frame as the foreground and then drawing the background board surface. In this case, first, the masks of the two frames are accurately calculated and combined to determine the drawing area (a). Next, the moved mask is drawn using the combined mask (b, c). Then, the background board surface is drawn by using the mask excluding the area of the moved piece (d).

The method shown in FIG. 7 has an advantage that it requires less complicated processing.

FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate a method of displaying the division of pieces and the movement of the divided pieces. In FIG. 9, an object called an instance 40 of CBoard is an object for displaying a piece (C described later).
BallMovingSynchronizer instance 41, CBallMoving instance 42, etc.) are held, and drawing is performed after calling them. CBall Movings
An instance 41 of the ynchronizer determines the moving distance of the piece. CBallMovin
The instance 42 of g moves the piece based on the moving distance. The CBall instance 43 draws a piece at the moving position. CBallMovin
An instance 42 of g and an instance 43 of CBall are generated by the number of pieces that divide.

In FIG. 10, first, when it is determined that the division condition is satisfied, the process of pretreatment of movement is started, and the CBallMovingSynchronizer is entered.
An instance of is created (S30). At this time, C
The instance of BallMovingSynchronizer sets the internal timer to 0 (S31).
Next, an instance of CBallMoving for moving the piece is created (S32).

Next, the process of movement is started, and CBoar
The instance of d is CBAllMovingSynch
The method of the instance of ronizer is called (S33). CBallMoving Synchron
The instance of izer calculates the movement distance from the internal timer and returns the value to the instance of CBoard (S3
4). Next, the method of the CBallMoving instance is called, the movement distance is received from the CBoard instance, and the CBall instance is moved (S35). When a plurality of pieces move, the corresponding method of a plurality of CBallMoving instances is called, and the pieces are displayed so as to move at the same time.

Next, a process of drawing on the screen is performed.
That is, an object that draws the background board surface, or C
The drawing method of the Ball instance is called,
Drawing is performed in the image memory (S36).

The above moving process and drawing process are repeated, the image is repeatedly updated, and the moving frame is displayed.

In the drawing method described above, even if the processing speed differs depending on the performance of the computer and the use condition, the moving speed of the frame does not differ. That is, the image is updated sequentially, and each is called a frame. A series of frames are displayed and the pieces are displayed as they move. Then, in this series of frames, the image of the frame is first expanded and displayed by about 10%. As a result, the piece is raised and displayed. The pieces are displayed so as to be moved to the destination in a plurality of frames following this.
If the frame feed time is short, the distance moved by one frame feed is shortened. Conversely, if the frame feed time is long, the distance moved by one frame feed is increased. In this way, the moving time of the pieces is made constant.

The frame feed time can be measured by the time required to draw a frame for floating and displaying the frame. That is, CBoa
The instance of rd indicates the time t required for the floating display of the piece from the start of processing to the CBallMovingSynchron
Received from an instance of izer. Then, the moving distance d of the piece in the next frame is calculated by the following formula.

D = D × (t ÷ T) However, T is the time until the piece is moved to the movement destination. In this way, the divided pieces always move to the movement destination in a fixed time.

As described above, in this embodiment, the piece automatically splits and moves under a predetermined condition, and if the condition is further satisfied, the splitting is repeated. Therefore,
Make a puzzle game exciting.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment but can be variously modified. For example, the conditions of division and the conditions of movement can be changed variously. If you mention the condition of division,
For example, pieces of different colors may be prepared, and division may occur only when pieces of the same color satisfy the rules of the embodiment.

Further, instead of division, the pieces may be automatically moved under a predetermined rule. For example,
The piece is shaped like an iguana or a bird's egg, and the iguana or small bird in which the egg cracks appears moves to another empty piece placement position and returns to the egg, depending on the number of movements, the elapsed time, etc. You may do it. Which piece moves and in which direction it can be determined by using a random number or the like.

[0043]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image of the piece is divided or moved when the predetermined rule is satisfied, so that the puzzle game is made exciting. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an environment to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing the above-mentioned embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a rule adopted in the above-described embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a rule adopted in the above-described embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a method of drawing an image that displays a moving state of a piece.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a method of synthesizing a frame image and a background board image.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a method of combining an image of a frame and an image of a background board.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating drawing of movement of a piece.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating drawing of movement of a piece.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a conventional puzzle game.

[Explanation of symbols]

 21 Operation Input Section 22 Image Data Storage Section 23 Image Compositing Section 24 Image Memory 25 Display Section 26 Operation Condition Discrimination Section 27 Division Condition Discrimination Section 28 Total Score Calculation Section

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A means for generating an image for displaying a board having a plurality of pieces arranged positions, a means for generating an image for displaying one or a plurality of pieces, and a means for displaying the generated images on a display screen. And an instruction means for instructing an image of one frame and its movement based on a user's operation, and an instruction by the instructing means moves the image of the one frame from the current frame arrangement position to the current frame arrangement position. When the content of the movement to the empty piece arrangement position sandwiching the image of the piece of the piece arrangement position adjacent to the above together with the current piece arrangement position, the image of the one piece of the piece is moved to the empty piece arrangement position. A means for moving and erasing the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position, and adjoining the piece arrangement position to which the piece image is moved Image of the piece at the piece placement position A copy of the image of the piece at the destination piece arrangement position is generated when the piece arrangement position that exists and sandwiches the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position with the destination piece arrangement position is empty. And moving to the empty piece arrangement position and deleting the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position from the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position. An image display device characterized by the above. 2. The image display device according to claim 1, wherein the adjacent frame arrangement positions are adjacent frame arrangement positions in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. 3. The image display device according to claim 2, further comprising means for adding points corresponding to when the image of the frame is erased. 4. The image display device according to claim 3, wherein the score is changed according to the manner of erasing the image of the frame. 5. A means for generating an image displaying a board having a plurality of pieces arranged positions, a means for generating an image displaying one or a plurality of pieces, and a means for displaying the generated images on a display screen. And an instruction means for instructing an image of one frame and its movement based on a user's operation, and an instruction by the instructing means moves the image of the one frame from the current frame arrangement position to the current frame arrangement position. When the content of moving to the empty piece arrangement position sandwiching the image of the piece of the piece arrangement position adjacent to the above with the current piece arrangement position, the image of the one piece is moved to the empty piece arrangement position. And a means for erasing the image of the frame at the frame arrangement position adjacent to the current frame arrangement position from the frame arrangement position adjacent to the current frame arrangement position, and the image of the predetermined frame when the predetermined condition is satisfied. Or a copy The image display apparatus characterized by having a means for dynamically move. 6. A means for generating an image for displaying a board having a plurality of pieces arranged positions, a means for generating an image for displaying one or a plurality of pieces, and a means for displaying the generated images on a display screen. And an instruction means for instructing an image of one frame and its movement based on a user's operation, and an instruction by the instructing means is instructed for the image of the one frame when a predetermined first condition is satisfied. An image display device comprising means for moving to a position and means for executing movement of the image of the frame in a mode not instructed by the instructing means when a predetermined second condition is satisfied. . 7. In the image display program product, a step of generating an image displaying a board having a plurality of pieces arrangement positions, a step of generating an image displaying one or a plurality of pieces, and the generated image. Is displayed on the display screen, an instruction step for instructing an image of one frame and its movement based on a user's operation, and an instruction in the instructing step is to change the image of the one frame from the current frame arrangement position. , When the content of the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the present piece arrangement position is sandwiched together with the present piece arrangement position to the empty piece arrangement position, the image of the one piece is displayed. Moving to an empty piece placement position and erasing the image of the piece at the piece placement position adjacent to the current piece placement position from the piece placement position adjacent to the current piece placement position; A piece image exists at a piece arrangement position adjacent to the piece arrangement position of the movement destination of the piece image, and a piece arrangement position sandwiching the piece arrangement position adjacent to the movement destination piece arrangement position with the movement destination piece arrangement position is When it is empty, a copy of the image of the piece at the destination piece arrangement position is generated and moved to the empty piece arrangement position, and the image of the piece at the piece arrangement position adjacent to the destination piece arrangement position is displayed as described above. An image display program product, which is used for causing a computer to execute a step of erasing from a piece arrangement position adjacent to a move destination piece arrangement position.