KR101529387B1 - Apparatus and method of providing multiplayer competition action game supporting dynamic switch of player characters - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for providing a multiplayer competition game that supports dynamic replacement of a player character. According to the present invention, in the action RPG-oriented game in which a plurality of gamers form a party and operate their respective player characters to battle the player characters of the opponent's side, before starting the game play, By displaying only a part of the selected player character, gamers can predict the game play strategy of the opponent's camp, and based on this, the player characters of the camp to which the opponent belongs are selected to play the game. According to the present invention, in providing a multiplayer match game, it is possible to induce gamers to play more closely collaborative games through a game strategy based on the majors and combinations of the player characters.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for providing a multiplayer match game supporting dynamic change of a player character,

The present invention belongs to the field of game technology.

A type of game in which one of a plurality of characters is selected and confronted with a character manipulated by the opponent gamer or a computer is classified as a fighting action arcade game.

Because the action arcade game can use different techniques depending on the character, the character itself is the most important element of the game.

Among these fighting action arcade games, a hint from the wrestling tagmatch has been developed that two gamers will be on one side, allowing four gamers to play the game together.

1 is an execution screen of a "WWF Wrestling Mania" game produced for a business in the 1980s.

The game is known as an action arcade game that supports tag matching.

The game shown in FIG. 1 is a structure in which four game players are connected to each other, and four gamers each select a character and confront each other at a time.

Since then, this tag system has become a factor in the battle action arcade game.

On the other hand, as the business game market has become increasingly speculative, the axis of the game market has shifted to the home game console or PC platform. In the case of home game console or PC platform, .

The tag system has also changed to allow four gamers to simultaneously play two games at the same time, instead of allowing one gamer to simultaneously play two characters at the same time.

2 is a game execution screen of the "Tekken tag tournament"

In the game shown in FIG. 2, the gamer selects two characters to play the game. In actual game, only one character is manipulated, and the game is continuously played by replacing the character with another character in real time during the competition.

The game shown in FIG. 2 is also produced in the form of an online game, and a game in which a plurality of gamers simultaneously play online simultaneously is also possible.

On the other hand, the white rice of an online game can be regarded as an online role playing game in which a plurality of gamers perform quests on a vast game map using their own player characters, or party play.

This online role playing game is a typical form in which a plurality of gamers join a party to perform quests in a game and hunt mobs, but in recent years, PVP (Player Vs Player), which confronts player characters, In some cases it is the main content of a role-playing game.

Mostly, when moving in the game map alone or when forming a party to meet other gamers, they are attacked or defended in various ways. In comparison with a classic role-playing game, And has a tendency to be reinforced.

These types of games are classified as action RPGs. Among them, PVP as a main game element is similar to the action arcade game shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 in that the game is played between gamers, There is room for introducing a tag matching system.

However, in Action RPG, the balance and combination of party members is very important. In order to share roles, it is common to consider each member's race, character, level, etc. very carefully when forming a party.

Accordingly, when an action RPG is produced so that each player can select two or more player characters to play a game, and can continue playing the game by replacing the player character with another player character in real time during the game play by the tag system,

It should be noted that each player can not arbitrarily select a desired player character from the known action arcade game, and the player character can not be selected in consideration of the combination of the player character with the party members.

In other words, it is necessary to develop a method of selecting a player character of the new party members considering the above points in order to make the tag system of the online RPG unique party play and the heterogeneous factor action arcade game fully integrate and to exhibit synergy Do.

Document 1: Korean Patent No. 10-0745838 "Multi-character providing method, system and recording medium therefor"

Documentation 2. http://www.tekken-net.kr/sub_main/guide/view/tag_select.htm "Tekken tag tournament 2" official website

The present invention has been developed in order to overcome the problems of the related art as described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a PVP system in which a party is formed and the player character selection screen Thereby allowing a player character to be selected.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing a multiplayer game in which a plurality of player characters form a group to play a game with player characters belonging to different groups, The game apparatus may be implemented in the form of a game providing apparatus for executing the game,

Idle screen processing means for causing the clients belonging to the first group and the clients belonging to the second group to be opposed to the first group to select two or more player characters respectively on the idle screen; And

When the player character selection in the idle screen by the clients belonging to the first group and the second group is completed, the clients belonging to the first group and the clients belonging to the second group are selected by the player And game play processing means for manipulating the characters and playing each other so as to play the game.

At this time, the idle screen processing means displays information of all player characters selected by the clients belonging to the first group on the idle screen of the clients belonging to the first group, And processes the remainder except part of the information of the player character to be displayed.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a multiplayer competition game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character,

a-1) grouping a plurality of clients connected to the online game server through a network into a first group and a second group that is an opponent with the first group;

a-2) causing the clients belonging to the first group and the second group to which the on-line game server is grouped to select two or more player characters on the idle screen;

a-3) Upon selection of a player character on the idle screen by the clients belonging to the first group and the second group is completed, the online game server transmits the client belonging to the first group and the client belonging to the second group And processing the game player to play the game by operating the player character selected by each of the users.

At this time, in step a-2, the online game server displays information on all player characters selected by the clients belonging to the first group on the idle screen of the clients belonging to the first group, The remainder excluding the part of the information of the player character selected by the clients is displayed.

According to the present invention, the gamers predict a strategy of the opponent's camp while confirming only a part of the player's character selected by gamers of the opponent's camp, and design a corresponding strategy between the party members based on the strategy, .

In this case, various strategies can be used in consideration of mutuality and role sharing between the player characters from the selection of the player character, so that the game property is further strengthened.

1 is an execution screen of a conventional business game supporting tag matching,
FIG. 2 shows an execution screen of a conventional game in which two characters are selected and played in a single play mode,
3 is a diagram for explaining a connection relationship between an online game server and a client,
4 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration of an apparatus for providing a multiplayer competition game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character according to the present invention,
5 is a view illustrating a state in which two or more player characters to be used for game play are selected,
6 is a diagram illustrating a state in which player characters are dynamically changed during game play,
7 is a view illustrating a state in which a player character is selected and then a skill to be used by the player character is further selected,
8 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a multiplayer competition game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "comprising" another element in the description of the invention or in the claims, it is not to be construed as being limited to only that element, And the like.

Also, in the description of the invention or the claims, the components named as "means", "parts", "modules", "blocks" refer to units that process at least one function or operation, Each of which may be implemented by software or hardware, or a combination thereof.

3 is a diagram for explaining a connection relationship between an online game server and a client.

The online game server 1 is a main body that provides online game services to a plurality of game clients 2 connected through a network.

That is, the game client software for online game play is provided by the client 2 as a download method, and the plurality of clients 2 connected by executing the game client software are informed of the operation of the player character of each client, , And provides various values of variables in the game in synchronization to play online games.

The client 2 corresponds to a subject who connects to the online game server 1 via a network and executes an online game. Preferably in the form of a personal computer.

Meanwhile, an apparatus for providing a multiplayer competition game (hereinafter, referred to as a multiplayer competition game providing apparatus) supporting dynamic replacement of a player character according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of the above-described online game server 1, Or in the form of software executed in conjunction with the online game server 1.

At this time, the apparatus 100 for providing a multiplayer match game according to the present invention assumes a multi-player PVP game in which a plurality of gamers literally form a group and gamers belonging to the respective sides confront each other.

That is, gamers belonging to the respective camps are allowed to select a player character according to a strategy for responding to a character combination or a mutual character combination, as will be described later, based on a multi-player PVP game having such a limitation.

4 is a functional block diagram for explaining a configuration of an apparatus for providing a multiplayer competition game according to the present invention.

4, the apparatus 100 for providing a multiplayer game according to the present invention includes an idle screen processing unit 110, a gameplay processing unit 120, and a character replacement support unit 130 do.

The users access the multi-player competition game providing apparatus 100 according to the present invention using their respective clients 2, and enter the waiting room waiting for gamers to play the game together.

Then, select two of the many player characters stored in his account.

5 is a diagram illustrating a state in which two or more player characters to be used for game play are selected.

In other words, when an arbitrary waiting room that has not yet started playing the game is selected or entered, the information on the gamers of the opponent's side is displayed on the right side as shown in FIG. 5, and information on the gamers of the side to which the user belongs is displayed on the left side do.

In such a standby screen, each gamer simultaneously selects two or more player characters to be used for game play.

Although more than two may be selected depending on implementation, it is assumed that at least two player characters are selected at the same time in the present invention.

The clients 2 of the gamers displayed on the left side among the clients 2 to be played in the above example are referred to as the first group and the gamers displayed on the right side, that is, the clients 2 of the opponent who are to compete with the first group, Will be referred to as a second group.

The idle screen processing means 110 causes the clients 2 belonging to the first group and the clients 2 belonging to the second group to select two or more player characters respectively on the idle screen as shown in Fig. do.

On the other hand, when the client 2 belonging to the first group and the clients 2 belonging to the second group each select a player character, the idle screen processing means 110 determines which player character has been selected, 2) and share them with each other.

At this time, the idle screen processing means 110 causes only one of the player character information selected by the gamers of one side to be displayed on the screen of the gamers of the other side.

As shown in the right side of FIG. 5, it can be seen that only one of the two player characters selected by the gamers belonging to the second group is displayed.

Then, the remaining one is displayed as a question mark so that the player can recognize the player character of the other player and start playing the game.

Unlike the action arcade game, the action RPG is a game in which the character characters of the player character and the occupation are different, and it is common to play based on the role sharing.

For example, player character who protects or heals a long distance attack player character, player character who has a high physical strength, and player character who carries out a heavy physical attack have different characteristics for each player character. Strategic play by proper combination is a general form of action RPG to be.

Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 5, in selecting a player character, a gamer selects a proper character so that a player can play a strategic game while seeing which player character has been selected by other gamers belonging to his / her own club.

In the example of FIG. 5, the player characters of the first group are all displayed on the idle screen as shown in the left side of FIG.

Gamers can communicate with each other and choose or change the appropriate character.

In this case, it is important that the player character is selected so as to appropriately respond to the player character selected by the opponent by preparing an appropriate countermeasure strategy while viewing the combination of the player characters selected by the opponent's side.

That is, the strategy of the opponent's camp is predicted while looking at the combination of the player's characters of the opponent's camp, and two player characters are selected to correspond to the strategy.

At this time, if both parties can see all the combinations of the player characters of each other, the player character will be continuously changed to establish a mutually advantageous strategy.

In order to prevent this, the idle screen processing means 110 displays only one of the player characters selected by the gamers belonging to the second group on the screen of the clients 2 belonging to the first group as shown in the left side of FIG. 5, Is marked with a question mark to hide the information.

In other words, both sides see only half of the combinations of the player characters selected by the opponent's side, predict the remaining half, and start the game play by determining the combination of player characters of the side to which the opponent side belongs based on the prediction.

If the prediction is right, the gameplay will be favorable and vice versa.

That is, from the act of selecting the player character on the idle screen, the confrontation between the faction is actually started, and it is an important factor for the winner and the loser to determine the appropriate combination of player characters by predicting the strategy of the opponent's faction.

On the other hand, when the player character selection is completed by the respective clients 2 belonging to the first group and the second group, the game play processing means 120 starts game play.

The game play processing means 120 displays all the information of the player characters of the opponent's camp on the game play start screen as the game play is started or the information of the player characters of the opponent's camp in the form of an icon at the top of the game play screen All can be displayed.

In other words, the gamers determine the combination of the player character to be used by setting up the strategy in a state where only half of the player's character is selected by the opponent's side in the idle screen, and then the information about the opponent's side through the game play start screen or the game play screen The game player plays the game by setting up a strategy corresponding to the opponent's camp with a combination of the player characters of the selected opponent's camp.

Therefore, the strategy is established in two stages, and based on this, the team plays.

6 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a player character is dynamically changed during game play.

During the game play, each gamer can play a game by manipulating one of the two player characters selected by him or her. At this time, the player can dynamically play the game by replacing with another player character.

As shown in FIG. 6 (a), the game is played with any one of the player characters, and the game is played by replacing the other player with another player as shown in FIG. 6 (b).

The game play processing means 120 supports dynamic replacement of such player characters.

At this time, the game-play processing means 120 provides the game contents to the clients belonging to the first group at the time of game play to provide or manipulate the game contents corresponding to the combination of the player characters manipulated by the clients belonging to the first group Method can be supported.

For example, when gamers belonging to the first group play a game in combination of "SNIPER" and "STRIKER ", the game- It will be able to display information about the usable link and collaboration play.

If the first group gamers perform a predetermined operation in accordance therewith, the game can be processed to enable a game player or a collaborative game that can be used only through the combination.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 5, each gamer can select his / her own player character. At this time, each player can further select a skill to be used by the selected player character, equipment to be mounted, and the like.

7 is a diagram illustrating a state in which a player character is selected and then a skill to be used by the player character is further selected.

That is, the combination of actual player characters can be further subdivided by the skill or equipment to be used by each player character.

On the other hand, if the player character of the opponent's side uses any one skill, the gamer will be able to play the game based on the strategy based on the skill that the player character will not use.

In this case, the game-play processing means 120 may be a client belonging to the first group, in addition to the combination of the player characters manipulated by the respective clients belonging to the first group, The game contents corresponding to the selected skill or equipment may be provided or an operation method may be supported.

That is, in the above example, when the gamers belonging to the first group play the game in combination of "SNIPER" and "STRIKER ", the game play processing means 120 determines whether or not the skill , Display information about the cooperators or cooperative play that can be used in the cooperating combination, or handle the cooperators that can be used only through the cooperating combination.

Hereinafter, a method of providing a multiplayer competition game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a multiplayer competition game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character according to the present invention.

The present invention shown in Fig. 8 can be executed in the online game server 1 as shown in Fig.

8, the online game server 1 has a plurality of clients 2 connected to the online game server through the network, and the first group and the second group (Step a-1).

That is, when the clients 2 enter the waiting room created to wait for the opponent-player, strictly speaking, when the users of the respective clients 2 select an arbitrary waiting room and select an admission function, And assigns one client 2 to the first group or the second group.

When the groups are filled, the online game server 1 causes the clients 2 belonging to the first group and the second group, which are grouped as shown in FIG. 5, to assign two or more player characters (Step a-2).

At this time, the online game server 1 displays information on all player characters selected by the clients 2 belonging to the first group on the idle screen of the clients 2 belonging to the first group as shown in FIG. 5 And displays the rest of the player character selected by the clients (2) belonging to the second group except for a part of the information.

The same is true for the second group of opposing camps.

In other words, the gamers of each faction form a strategy by watching only half of the player characters selected by the opponent's side.

Then, when the player character selection by each of the clients (2) belonging to the first group and the second group is completed, the online game server determines whether the client (2) belonging to the first group and the client The users of the clients 2 manipulate the player characters selected by each of the clients 2 so as to play the game by playing each other (step a-3).

When the game play is started, the online game server 1 displays information of all the player characters selected by the opponent's side at the top of the game play start screen (for example, the loading screen) or the game play screen.

Accordingly, the gamers of the respective camps judge whether or not the combination of the player character selected by them is appropriate, and if it is judged that it is inappropriate, the game is played by correcting the strategy.

On the other hand, when the game play is started, the online game server 1 dynamically replaces each of the clients 2 and 2 'belonging to the first group and the second group with another player character previously selected during game play .

That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the gamers can play the game by using one player character, and then dynamically replace the player character with the other player character.

At this time, the online game server 1 provides the game contents corresponding to the combination of the player characters manipulated by the clients 2 belonging to the first group to the clients 2 belonging to the first group Or can support a method of operation.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 7, when the player character is selected, the skill to be used, the item or equipment to be mounted, and the like are further selected, the game contents corresponding thereto or the operation method can be supported based on the combination.

As described above, the method for providing the multiplayer competition game supporting the dynamic replacement of the player character according to the present invention can be implemented in the form of software, which is a set of instructions that can be read by the computer, and can be recorded on the recording medium.

In this case, the recording medium may include any type of medium readable by a computer, such as DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB memory, and flash memory.

On the other hand, the expression to be recorded on the recording medium includes not only the case of being recorded on the recording medium of this type but also the case of being provided through a communication line in the form of an intangible carrier wave (Carrier Wave).

In the above description, the expression "server" is used. However, in a distributed computing environment, it is common to divide a function or a load into a plurality of servers for processing. Therefore, a "server" does not necessarily refer to a single hardware component, And < / RTI >

In the above description, the expression "player character" is used. However, the term " player character " is not limited to a human character or an avatar.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. .

The present invention can be applied to a game technology, particularly an online game technology field.

1: Online game server
2: Client
100: Providing device for multiplayer game
110: idle screen processing means
120: Game play processing means
130: Character replacement support means

Claims (11)

A game providing apparatus for playing a game progressed by a plurality of player characters forming a group and playing against player characters belonging to another group,
Idle screen processing means for causing the clients belonging to the first group and the clients belonging to the second group to be opposed to the first group to select two or more player characters respectively on the idle screen; And
When the player character selection in the idle screen by the clients belonging to the first group and the second group is completed, the clients belonging to the first group and the clients belonging to the second group are selected by the player And game play processing means for manipulating the characters to play each other so as to play the game,
Wherein the idle screen processing means displays all of the player characters selected by the clients belonging to the first group on the idle screen of the clients belonging to the first group while the idle screen processing means displays all of the player characters selected by the clients belonging to the second group The player character is displayed on the display screen of the player character, and all other characters except for one or more of the characters are displayed. The method according to claim 1,
And character replacement support means for allowing each of the clients belonging to the first group and the second group to dynamically replace the player character with another player character previously selected during game play so as to play the player character. A multiplayer battle game supporting dynamic replacement of the multiplayer game. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the game play processing means is a means for providing game contents corresponding to a combination of player characters manipulated by respective clients belonging to the first group to clients belonging to the first group at the time of game play, Wherein the player character is a player character. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the idle screen processing means processes each of the clients belonging to the first group and the second group in the idle screen so that the player character selected by the client can further select a skill or equipment to be used in the game. A device for providing a multiplayer battle game that supports replacement. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the game-play processing means is a client that belongs to the first group at the time of game play and is further selected in the idle screen for the player character in addition to the combination of the player characters manipulated by the respective clients belonging to the first group Wherein the game player provides the game contents corresponding to the skill or the equipment or supports the operation mode according to the skill or equipment. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the game play processing means includes a part of information of a player character selected by the clients belonging to the second group which is not displayed on the idle screen on each client screen belonging to the first group as the game play is started And an icon of all player characters selected by the clients belonging to the second group is displayed on the display unit. There is provided a method for executing on an online game server that executes a game progressed by a plurality of player characters forming a group and playing against player characters belonging to another group,
a-1) grouping a plurality of clients connected to the online game server through a network into a first group and a second group that is an opponent with the first group;
a-2) causing the clients belonging to the first group and the second group to which the on-line game server is grouped to select two or more player characters on the idle screen;
a-3) Upon selection of a player character on the idle screen by the clients belonging to the first group and the second group is completed, the online game server transmits the client belonging to the first group and the client belonging to the second group The user of the game player operates the player character selected by himself / herself to play the game by playing each other,
The online game server displays all the player characters selected by the clients belonging to the first group on the idle screen of the clients belonging to the first group in step a-2, Wherein the processing for processing the player character is performed such that all the characters except for any one or more of the selected player characters are displayed. 8. The method of claim 7,
In the step a-3, the online game server processes each client belonging to the first group and the second group so that the client can dynamically replace the player character with another player character previously selected during game play A method for providing a multiplayer match game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character. 9. The method of claim 8,
In the step a-3, the on-line game server provides the game contents corresponding to the combination of the player characters manipulated by the clients belonging to the first group to the clients belonging to the first group, Wherein the player character is provided with a plurality of player characters. 8. The method of claim 7,
In the step a-3, the online game server displays, on each client screen belonging to the first group, the information of the player character selected by the clients belonging to the second group that was not displayed on the idle screen in step a- And the icon of all the player characters selected by the clients belonging to the second group including a part of the icons of the player character selected by the player is displayed. A computer-readable recording medium containing instructions for executing on a computer a method of providing a multiplayer match game supporting dynamic replacement of a player character as set forth in any one of claims 7 to 10.

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