JPH10277262A - Video game device and storage media containing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video game device which increases visibility of a character's motion on a displayed image in an action game and in which not only children but also aged persons can play at ease without getting tired, by providing a display control means varying the characteristic expression of the first and second characters on the basis of the amplitude motion expression. SOLUTION: When a relation discrimination part 43 has judged that both character and item are positioned within a certain distance by the coordinates information from a play character position-identification part 41 and an item position-identification part 42, a confirmation part 44 about pushing-down of a control button discriminates whether the B-button of the controller 2 is pused down. When it is pushed down, a timer 45 is started and when a control button of a cross-shaped key is pushed twice in a timer count, it is judged as a repeated pushing motion by a repeated pushing-judge part 46. In this way, an animated cartoon in which the play character vertically vibrates the item, is indicated on a display 4 by a display controller 47. When this number of vibration or the time get to a certain figure or more, the display controller 47 sends an auxiliary item onto the display.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique effective when applied to motion control of a character displayed on a display screen of a video game, particularly an action game.

[0002] In this kind of action game, a user generally operates a play character to display an action such as hitting or kicking an opponent character.

[0003] For example, the operation of hitting is to detect the operation of a specific push button and display the operation of the arm of the play character in response to the operation.

[0004]

However, most of such action games imitate professional wrestling and actual martial arts, and problems such as promoting violence of users have been pointed out.

On the other hand, action games are difficult to operate,
Especially in sports games, etc. that require continuous tapping of operation buttons,
It was difficult to operate for young or old people, and the age range of users was narrow.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and aims to improve the visibility of the action of a character on a display screen in an action game, and to play from the childhood to the old age safely and without getting tired. It is to provide the technology that can do.

[0007]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
Association determination means for determining whether or not the first character and the second character displayed on the display means are associated with the first character and the second character; and when the association is determined by the determination means, Timer means for starting time counting, continuous operation detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of continuous operation of a specific operation button within a certain time counted by the timer means, and when continuous operation of the operation button is detected And a display control means for causing a second character associated with the first character to perform an amplitude operation display and changing a characteristic display of the first character or the second character based on the amplitude operation display. .

[0008] The display means means a display device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display. The first character is
For example, the play character is an anthropomorphic play character operated by the user himself on the screen, and the second character means an item held by the anthropomorphic character.
In addition, the association between the first character and the second character means that the play character and the item have a fixed positional relationship on the display means, thereby displaying the play character holding the item on the display means. Is performed. In this state, when the continuous operation of the specific operation button is detected within a predetermined time, the display control means (CP
U or an image display processor) performs a display in which the play character displayed on the display means vibrates the item vertically (left and right). If the vibration display is successful, the characteristic display of the play character or the item changes. here,
The change of the characteristic display includes enhancement of the function of the gripped item in the game, rotation of the display screen, release of the trap switch on the display screen, and the like.

As described above, by successively hitting the operation buttons under certain conditions, various changes in the screen display can be enjoyed, and the playability as an action game can be enhanced.

In a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the display control means causes a third character to appear and be displayed on a display screen as a change in the characteristic display of the first or second character. Things.

That is, due to the success of the continuous hit, the item of the play character is displayed in a vibrating action,
Another item different from the above item appears and displayed on the display means. This causes a change in the progress of the game.

[0012] The third means of the present invention is an association determination means for determining whether or not the first character and the second character displayed on the display means are associated with the first character and the second character. A counting step for starting time counting when the association is determined by the determination means; a continuous operation detecting step for detecting whether or not a specific operation button is continuously operated within the counted fixed time; Display control for displaying a second character associated with the first character in an amplitude operation display when a continuous operation of the first character is detected, and changing a characteristic display of the first character or the second character based on the amplitude operation display This is a recording medium storing a program consisting of steps.

As a recording medium, any recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a game cartridge, a floppy disk, a magnetic disk, and a magneto-optical disk can be used. Among them, a CD-R is particularly suitable for a game.
OM and game cartridge.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a timer means for measuring the time of the character displayed on the display means, and a first operation button within a first time counted by the timer means. Continuous operation detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of continuous operation of
Continuous operation detecting means for detecting the presence / absence of continuous operation of the second operation button within a second time set longer than the period of time, and detecting continuous operation of the first or second operation button. And a display control means for displaying a motion of the character when the character is played.

In this means, there are a first operation button and a second operation button. When the first operation button is repeatedly hit, the timer time is set to be short. Repeated hits are required. On the contrary,
When the second operation button is repeatedly hit, the timer time is set to be long, so that even a young or old age group or a beginner of the action game can easily enter the continuous hit mode.

By the success of the continuous hit mode, a high-speed moving display (so-called dash) and a floating-in-air display (so-called hovering) of the play character are realized on the display means.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[0018]

FIG. 1 shows a state in which a video game apparatus according to the present invention is connected to a video display apparatus 4 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "display 4").

The game machine main body 1 is connected to a controller 3 as an external input device, and is further equipped with a cartridge 2 for providing a game program. Although details of the game cartridge 2 are omitted, the game cartridge 2 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) in which a program is stored, a battery backup type memory for storing the progress of the game, and the like.

The display 4 is for providing a display signal and an audio signal output from the game machine body 1 to the player as a display image and an audio, and a general household television receiver can be used.

FIG. 2 shows a hardware block centered on the game machine main body 1. The game machine main body 1 has a CPU for sequentially reading out programs and data from the game cartridge 2 via the bus 7, storing the programs and data in the memory 8, and sequentially executing processing. When any one of the operation buttons of the controller 3 is pressed during the execution of the program, an interrupt occurs, and this is transmitted to the CPU, and the process defined by the interrupt is executed.

Although the controller 3 has various operation buttons as shown in FIG. 3, only those related to the present invention will be described. A cross key 5 is provided on the left side of the controller 3 as viewed from the plane, and each part of the cross key 5 in the vertical direction (JU: upper, JD: lower, JL: left, JR:
(Right) defines different functions. On the other hand, an auxiliary button group 6 is arranged on the right side of the controller 3 and has four operation buttons (CU: up, CD: down, CL: left, CR: right).
Are arranged at positions corresponding to the buttons of the cross key 5, respectively.

Further, an A button (A) and a B button (B) are arranged below the controller 3 on the left side of the center. The operation of each of these buttons will be described later.

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of the present embodiment. The play character position recognition unit 41 has a function of recognizing the coordinate position of the play character 61 (see FIG. 6) operated by the player on the display 4. On the other hand, the item position recognition unit 42 also has a function of recognizing the coordinate position of the item 62.

The association judging section 43 includes a play character 61
The distance L on the coordinates between the item and the item 62 is calculated (FIG. 6).
(A)). At this time, when the operation button press recognition unit 44 recognizes that the play character 61 and the item 62 are within a predetermined distance L and the B button (see FIG. 3) of the controller 3 is pressed, the play on the display 4 is performed. The character 61 is displayed in a state associated with the item 62 (FIG. 6B). That is, the display 4
As a display effect, the play character 61 has the item 6
2 and the controller 3 B
By pressing the button, the play character 61 is displayed as if holding the item 62.

In this state, when the downward operation button (JD) of the cross key 5 is pressed, the timer 45 starts counting. When the operation button (JD) is pressed again within the timer count (TC: see FIG. 7) defined by the timer 45, the continuous hit determination unit 46 operates the operation button (JD).
Are determined to have been repeatedly hit, and the display control section 47 shown in FIG.
The vertical movement of the item 62 as shown in (c) is displayed. As a result, the item 62 is displayed on the display 4 by being quickly swung up and down by the play character 61 holding the item 62, and when this is continued for a certain number of times, the item 6 is displayed on the display 4.
2 are displayed.

FIG. 5 shows this in a flow chart. That is, based on the coordinate information from the play character position recognizing unit 41 and the item position recognizing unit 42 (step 501), when the association determining unit 43 determines that both are within a predetermined distance L (503), the operation button is pressed. The recognizing unit 44 determines whether the B button of the controller 3 has been pressed (503).

At this time, when the B button is pressed, the timer 45 is started (504) and the cross key 5 is pressed.
Operation button (JD) is within the timer count (TC)
When the button is pressed more than once (505), the continuous hit determination unit 46 determines that the continuous hit is performed (507). Thereby, the display control unit 47
Displays a moving image in which the play character 61 vibrates the item 62 in the vertical direction on the display 4 (50
8). When the number of times of vibration or the time exceeds a certain value, the display control unit 47 causes the auxiliary item 63 to appear on the display 4 (510).

As described above, according to the present embodiment,
The above-described series of operation displays is performed as if “the play character 61 grips the item 62” → “the play character 61
Is displayed as a series of actions of “shake item 62” → “appearance of new auxiliary item 63”, thereby increasing interest in the game.

FIG. 6 shows only the amplitude operation and the appearance of the auxiliary item 63 as the effect of the continuous hit. However, other than this, the high-speed movement display (so-called dash) of the play character and the floating display in the air are displayed on the display means. (So-called hovering) may be realized.

[0031]

Second Embodiment In the first embodiment, the operation button (JD)
Are repeatedly hit to a certain function (auxiliary item 6
3 appeared), but if the timer count (TC) for judging repeated hits of the operation button (JD) is set too short, the game progress will be made to the young and old people with relatively low reflexes. It will be difficult. Further, if the timer count (TC) is set to be long, it will be unsatisfactory for the young people who are used to sports games and the like.

In this embodiment, this is solved by using the auxiliary button group 6. That is, as shown in FIG. 7, in the case of a normal player, the timer count (TC)
The continuous hit determination is performed based on the number of times the JD button is depressed two or more times in the game. When the child or the elderly are the players, the continuous hit determination is performed using the CD button of the auxiliary button group 6. That is, the continuous hit determination unit 46 recognizes that the B button has been pressed down, and determines that continuous hit is performed when the CD button is pressed even once, and the display control unit 47 performs the amplitude operation of the item 62 as shown in FIG. Is displayed.

Such operation display control can be realized only by adding step 506 to the flowchart of FIG. In other words, if the CD button is pressed even once (506), it is determined that a continuous hit is made (507), and the display control unit 47 displays a moving image in which the play character 61 vibrates the item 62 in the vertical direction on the display 4. (508). When the number of times of vibration or the time exceeds a certain value, the display control unit 47 causes the auxiliary item 63 to appear on the display 4 (5.
10).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, by defining the button CD button having a different criterion than the JD button in the auxiliary button group 6 arranged on the controller 3 in the same manner as the cross key 5, , From the expert to the beginner can now enjoy the action game.

FIG. 6 shows only the amplitude operation and the appearance of the auxiliary item 63 as the effect of the continuous hitting. However, other than this, the play character is displayed on the display means at a high speed (so-called dash) or in the air. Floating display (so-called hovering) may be performed.

[0036]

According to the present invention, it is possible to enhance the action visibility of a character on a display screen in an action game, and to play safely and tiredly from a young age to an old age.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a video game device of the present invention is connected to a video display device.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration centered on a game machine main body.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an arrangement of operation buttons on a controller.

FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram for explaining the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a series of actions of a play character and an item.

FIG. 7 is a timing chart for determining repeated hits.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine main body 2 Cartridge 3 Controller 4 Display 5 Cross key 6 Auxiliary button group 7 Bus 8 Memory 61 Play character 62 Item 63 Auxiliary item

Claims (4)

[Claims] An association determining unit configured to determine whether the first character and the second character displayed on the display unit are associated with the first character and the second character; Timer means for starting counting time when determined; continuous operation detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of continuous operation of a specific operation button within a certain time counted by the timer means; continuous operation of the operation button When the first is detected,
A video game device comprising: display control means for displaying a second character associated with a character in an amplitude operation display and changing a characteristic display of the first character or the second character based on the amplitude operation display. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display control means displays a third character on the display screen as a change in the characteristic display of the first or second character.
2. A character is displayed for appearance.
A video game device as described. 3. An association determining means for determining whether or not the first character and the second character displayed on the display means are associated with the first character and the second character; A counting step of starting counting time when determined; a continuous operation detecting step of detecting the presence / absence of continuous operation of a specific operation button within the counted fixed time; and a continuous operation of the operation button is detected. Sometimes the first
A recording medium storing a program comprising a display control step of causing a second character associated with a character to perform amplitude operation display and changing a characteristic display of the first character or the second character based on the amplitude operation display. 4. A timer means for measuring time with respect to a character displayed on the display means, and detecting whether there is continuous operation of the first operation button within the time counted by the timer means, Continuous operation detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of an operation of a second operation button set less than the first operation button within the time counted by the timer means; A video game device comprising: display control means for displaying a motion of the character when a continuous operation of one of the operation buttons is detected.