KR20130060635A - Game method for providing a prize through a predetermined game - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A game method providing free gifts through a specific game is provided to attract a number of participants, and to maximize an advertisement effect by exposing gift advertisements whenever the victory or defeat is decided in every game progressing competition type tournament games betting gifts by the number of participants. CONSTITUTION: A game method providing free gifts through a specific game includes the following steps; an application request with at least one of user information, regional information, or preferred gift information is received from terminals of applicants who want to participate in games until certain registration time(300); gifts are decided after the registration time passed; a game is provided to the terminals of the applicants in a predetermined time (304, 306); and different advertisement contents with information which reports the victory or defeat are displayed on a terminal of a winner, and a terminal of a loser(308). A recording medium writes a program which is actualized with a set of program codes to perform a game method for providing a gift through certain games, on a computer. [Reference numerals] (300) Receive participation of applicants; (302) Determine gifts by the number of applicants; (304) Provide alarm for proceeding games; (306) Proceed games; (308) Display advertisement corresponding to the gift when the winning and losing is determined in the games; (AA) Start; (BB) No; (CC) Yes; (DD) End

Description

Game method for providing a prize through a predetermined game}

The present invention relates to a game method of providing a prize through a specific game.

Recently, with the development of network technology and content technology, the number of users using online games is increasing rapidly. As the utilization rate of online games has increased, various gameplays have become possible through competition and cooperation among users. Accordingly, online games have become contents that can build social networks beyond simple games.

In addition, the online game is not only a game itself, but also a useful marketing tool that provides an opportunity to expose various advertisements such as recruiting game participants and a game progress screen.

One embodiment of the present invention is to provide a game method that can attract a large number of participants, play competitive tournament games for prizes according to the number of participants.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, a game method for providing a prize through a specific game according to an embodiment of the present invention is to obtain at least one of user information, region information, preferred prize information from a participant terminal wanting to participate in the game. Receiving a request for participation, including a predetermined reception time; Accumulating the number of participants who received the participation application request by the reception time, and determining a prize corresponding to the accumulated number; Providing a game to the participant terminal at a predetermined time; And if the winning or losing of the game is determined, displaying advertisement content of the determined prize together with the display of winning or losing on the participant terminal.

The game is characterized in that the tournament type tournament game.

Group the participants based on at least one of the user information, the area information, and the preferred prize information, and provide the game for each group.

An alarm message for notifying the start of the game is transmitted to the participant terminal before a predetermined time.

And displaying, at the participant terminal, advertisement content corresponding to at least one of the user information, the region information, and the preferred prize information during the game.

In the recording medium recording a program implemented as a set of program codes for performing a game method for providing a prize through a specific game according to another embodiment of the present invention on a computer for achieving the other technical problem, the program The first program code for receiving a participation application request including at least one of user information, area information, and preferred prize information from a participant terminal wanting to participate in the game until a predetermined reception time; A second program code for accumulating the number of participants who received the participation application request by the reception time and determining a prize corresponding to the accumulated number; Third program code for providing a game to the participant terminal at a predetermined time; And a fourth program code for displaying, on the participant terminal, advertisement content of the determined prize together with the result of winning or losing, when the win or lose of the game is determined.

Since the game method according to an embodiment of the present invention can inform the result of the winning or losing desired by the user, the advertisement content is included together, it is generally possible to reduce the burden on the user when only the advertisement content is sent. In addition, since the advertisement content is sent out each time the game is finished, it can be expected to maximize the advertising effect by repeated advertisements.

1 is a view for explaining a game system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2A to 2C are exemplary views illustrating game progress screens according to an exemplary embodiment.
3 is a view for explaining a game method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a method and a server for providing friend information in an online game according to each embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the following description, in order to clarify the understanding of the present invention, description of well-known technology for the features of the present invention will be omitted. The following embodiments are detailed description to help understand the present invention, and it should be understood that the present invention is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Therefore, equivalent inventions that perform the same functions as the present invention will also fall within the scope of the present invention.

In the following description, the same reference numerals denote the same components, and unnecessary redundant explanations and descriptions of known technologies will be omitted.

In the embodiments of the present invention, " communication ", " communication network ", and " network " The three terms refer to wired and wireless local area and wide area data transmission and reception networks capable of transmitting and receiving a file between a user terminal, a terminal of another user, and a download server.

In the following description, a "game server" refers to a server computer to which users access to use game contents. In the case of a game having a small capacity or a small number of users, a plurality of game programs can be operated in one game server. In addition, in the case of a game having a very large capacity or a large number of real-time connections, there may be one or more game servers for operating one game depending on the functions of the game.

In addition, middleware for the database and servers performing payment processing can be connected to the game server, but a description thereof will be omitted in the present invention.

In the present invention, the online game means game content that can be used by users by accessing the above-mentioned game server. In particular, it refers to a game in which a large number of users can simultaneously access and enjoy the game, and increase the level through actions such as acquiring experience points while nurturing characters through the game. In addition, in order to facilitate the progress of the game on the game, it means a game that can purchase a variety of items.

In the online game of the present invention, various community systems can be used. For example, a guild of an online game, or a clan may be formed. The above concept means that users who use online games gather to form a group and organize a group. Depending on the number of users or the level of the characters of the users, each group can have a high reputation of a guild or a clan, so that various benefits within the game can be utilized. For example, if the guild or clan's reputation increases, the character's display on the game screen may change (e.g. the effect of changing the color of the displayed character's name), or to use items and villages in the game. You can enjoy the benefits of

In addition, the community game operation server that can be used in the online game is party play. The party play is a group in game play through requests, invitations, and acceptances among users, and the formed party members may use their own chat system, or a specific display for identifying party members on the game screen.

In addition, users who perform party play may distribute items to each other or share the result content obtained as a result of game play. The sharing method may also be set by each having a result content, or distributing at least a part of the result content to other characters.

In the present invention, the result content refers to all content that can be obtained by the characters of the play result users during the game play. For example, in the case of a shooting game, the experience content and cyber money that can be obtained at the end of a game may belong to the result content, and in the case of a sports game, the experience content and cyber money that can be obtained at the end of a game, etc. Can be In the case of role-playing games, the result content may be the experience gained from completing a specific quest or killing a monster, and reward cyber money.

In the online game, when the user's character acquires a specific result content, the resultant content belongs to all of the user's character. However, when belonging to a party play or a guild, a clan, or the like, at least a part of the obtained content may be distributed to characters of other users belonging to the party, the guild, the clan, and the like.

An item here refers to all the data that can help the progress of the game and can be understood as an item in a game in general. For example, in a role-playing game, an item that allows a character to substitute for a user to obtain more experience value obtained when a monster is suppressed, an item that can change the appearance of a character, etc. correspond to an item can do.

1 is a view for explaining a game system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, participant terminals 120 and 130, a communication network 110, and a game server 100 are included.

Participant terminals 120 and 130 include wired and wireless terminals, and include a mobile terminal including a smart phone, a mobile phone, a netbook, a tablet PC, a laptop, and a wired terminal including a PC.

Participant terminals 120 and 130 access the game server 100 through the communication network 110 to apply for game participation. Here, the game participation application information includes user information, regional information, preferred prize information, and the like. For example, personal information such as gender, age, photographs, local information including residence area, access area, working area, etc., and personal favorite prizes can be selected. For example, prizes provided by the game server 100 may be selected from, for example, a digital camera, a sports car, and a smart phone.

The communication network 110 includes a wired and wireless communication network.

The game server 100 receives the participation request information from the participant terminals 120 and 130 through the communication network 110, calculates the number of participants to determine the prizes according to the number of participants, and then provides the game while providing advertisements according to the prizes. The content is displayed on the participant terminals 120 and 130.

The game server 100 includes a participant manager 101, an advertisement manager 102, a prize manager 103, a game manager 104, and an alarm 105.

The participant manager 101 receives a participation request request including at least one of user information, area information, and preferred prize information from a participant terminal 120 and 130 who want to participate in a game until a predetermined reception time. Here, the reception time means the deadline for participation application. In addition, the participant manager 101 accumulates and manages the number of participants who have received the participation application request by the corresponding reception time. That is, count the number of participants.

The prize management unit 103 determines the prize according to the number of participants accumulated by the participant management unit 101. For example, if there are about 50 participants, a smartphone will be selected. If there are about 1000 participants, a Southeast Asian tour ticket will be awarded.

The game manager 104 provides a game to the participant terminals 120 and 130 at a predetermined time. Here, the predetermined time may be provided three times a day or five times a week. The game is a match-type game, for example, a rock-paper-scissors game. The game manager 104 may be configured to automatically start a game by driving a game application in the corresponding participant terminals 120 and 130 at the game start time.

When the winning or losing of the game is determined, the advertisement managing unit 102 displays the advertisement contents of the prize determined by the prize managing unit 103 together with the winning and losing display on the participants terminals 120 and 130, respectively. In addition, the advertisement manager 102 may display the advertisement content corresponding to at least one of user information, area information, and preferred prize information from the participant terminals 120 and 130 on the participant terminals 120 and 130 in the game. For example, a participant living in the Gangnam area of Seoul may display an advertisement of a service company serving in the Gangnam area.

In this case, the advertisement content may include information indicating the victory or loss. For example, the specific advertisement content may be a video content that informs prize information to be advertised, and an animation content that informs win or loss. That is, after the advertisement video is sent out, a character of "victory" or "defeat" may be reproduced in an animation form.

As a result, since the advertisement content is included together and notified of the result of the win or loss desired by the user, it is generally possible to reduce the burden on the user when only the advertisement content is transmitted. In addition, since the advertisement content is sent out each time the game is finished, it can be expected to maximize the advertising effect by repeated advertisements.

The alarm unit 105 may transmit an alarm message for notifying the start of the game to the participant terminals 120 and 130 before a predetermined time to proceed with the game.

2A to 2C are exemplary views illustrating game progress screens according to an exemplary embodiment.

2A, a game screen displayed on participant terminals 120 and 130 is shown. The type of game is a rock-paper-scissors game, a game played by two players, in which one of the rock-paper-scissors decides whether to win or lose. When the first participant terminal gives a scissors and the second participant terminal makes a fist, the first participant terminal displays the win or lose of the corresponding game, and when the first participant terminal is determined, the first prize advertisement is displayed on the screen of each terminal. Here, the first giveaway advertisement is advertisement content for a giveaway corresponding to 50 participants. Here, although it was described as displaying the first prize advertisement on the screens of the two participant terminals, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the first prize advertisement, for example, the smart phone, may be displayed only on the terminal screen of the winning side. In addition, before proceeding with the game, history information of the previous game, for example, information about whether the opponent played a lot of scissors or a lot of rock in the previous game may be displayed. In addition to the first prize advertisement, advertisement content corresponding to at least one of user information, local information, and preferred prize information may be displayed during the game. In addition, a predetermined advertisement content may be displayed even before the game progresses.

In addition, a participant may be given a certain point to the participant who participates in the game, so that the user can purchase an item for viewing the above-described history information using the point, or a gift to the participant who collects the certain point. .

Referring to FIG. 2B, the same as FIG. 2A, but when the number of participants is 1000, a second prize advertisement, for example, a travel ticket for Southeast Asia, may be displayed after the decision of winning or losing. Similarly, as shown in FIG. 2C, when the number of participants is 10,000, a third prize advertisement, for example a car, may be displayed after the decision of winning or losing.

3 is a view for explaining a game method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, in step 300, a participation application of a participant is received. The application for participation can be accepted only up to a certain time, and the game outline is advertised online or offline, and then a participation request of the connected participant terminal is received. In step 302, prizes are determined according to the number of participants. For example, the larger the number of participants, the more expensive the prizes. In step 304, an alarm for game progress is provided. Herein, a description will be given before the game starts, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and a game may be automatically executed at a corresponding terminal at a known game start time. In step 306, the game proceeds, and in step 308, when determining whether to win or lose the game, an advertisement corresponding to the prize is displayed. That is, in the case of a competitive tournament game, an advertisement effect may be maximized by displaying an advertisement of a corresponding prize on each terminal for each match.

In the above-described online game according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method of providing friend information is executed by an application basically installed in a terminal (which may include a program included in a platform or an operating system, which is basically installed in the terminal). It may also be executed by an application (ie, a program) that the user directly installs on the terminal through an application providing server such as an application store server, an application, or a web server associated with the corresponding service. In this sense, the method of providing friend information in the online game according to the embodiment of the present invention described above is implemented as an application (ie, a program) that is basically installed in a terminal or directly installed by a user, and can be read by a computer such as a terminal. Can be recorded on the medium.

Such a program may be recorded on a recording medium that can be read by a computer and executed by a computer so that the above-described functions can be executed.

As described above, in order to execute the friend information providing method in the online game according to each embodiment of the present invention, the above-described program is encoded in a computer language such as C, C ++, JAVA, or machine language, which can be read by a computer processor (CPU). Code may be included.

The code may include a function code related to a function or the like that defines the functions described above and may include an execution procedure related control code necessary for the processor of the computer to execute the functions described above according to a predetermined procedure.

In addition, such code may further include memory reference related code as to what additional information or media needed to cause the processor of the computer to execute the aforementioned functions should be referenced at any location (address) of the internal or external memory of the computer .

In addition, when a processor of a computer needs to communicate with any other computer or server, etc., to perform the above-described functions, the code may be stored in a computer's communication module (e.g., a wired and / ) May be used to further include communication related codes such as how to communicate with any other computer or server in the remote, and what information or media should be transmitted or received during communication.

The functional program for implementing the present invention and the related code and code segment may be implemented by programmers of the technical field of the present invention in consideration of the system environment of the computer that reads the recording medium and executes the program, Or may be easily modified or modified by the user.

Examples of recording media that can be read by a computer recording a program as described above include, for example, a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical media storage device, and the like.

Also, the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded may be distributed to a computer system connected via a network so that computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In this case, any of at least one of the plurality of distributed computers may execute some of the functions presented above and transmit the result of the execution to at least one of the other distributed computers, and transmit the result The receiving computer may also perform some of the functions described above and provide the results to other distributed computers as well.

In particular, a computer-readable recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a friend information providing method, in an online game according to each embodiment of the present invention, may be associated with an application store server, an application, or a corresponding service. It may be a storage medium (eg, a hard disk, etc.) included in an application provider server such as a web server or the application providing server itself.

A computer capable of reading a recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a friend information providing method, in an online game according to each embodiment of the present invention is not only a general PC such as a desktop or a laptop, but also a smart phone or a tablet PC. It may include mobile terminals, such as PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) and mobile communication terminal, as well as to be interpreted as all computing devices (Computing).

In addition, a computer capable of reading a recording medium recording an application which is a program for executing a friend information providing method in an online game according to an embodiment of the present invention may be a smart phone, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile communication terminal, or the like. In the case of a mobile terminal, the application may be downloaded from the application providing server to a general PC and installed on the mobile terminal through a synchronization program.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to at least one. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented as one independent hardware, some or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform a part or all of the functions in one or a plurality of hardware. As shown in FIG. Codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily inferred by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, readable and executed by a computer, thereby realizing an embodiment of the present invention. As a storage medium of the computer program, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, or the like can be included.

It is also to be understood that the terms such as " comprises, "" comprising," or "having ", as used herein, mean that a component can be implanted unless specifically stated to the contrary. But should be construed as including other elements. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used terms, such as predefined terms, should be interpreted to be consistent with the contextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be construed as ideal or overly formal, unless expressly defined to the contrary.

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the same shall be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (7)

In the game method of providing a prize through a specific game,
Receiving a participation request request including at least one of user information, area information, and preferred prize information from a participant terminal desiring to participate in the game until a predetermined reception time;
Determining a prize after the reception time has elapsed;
Providing a game to the participant terminal at a predetermined time; And
If the game is determined, the game method comprising the step of displaying different advertising content including the information indicating the win or lose, respectively on the winning participant terminal and the lost participant terminal. The method of claim 1,
Determining the prize,
And accumulating the number of participants who received the participation application request by the reception time, and determining a prize corresponding to the accumulated number. The method of claim 1,
The game,
The game method characterized in that the tournament type tournament game. The method of claim 1,
And providing the game for each group by grouping the participants based on at least one of the user information, the region information, and the preferred prize information. The method of claim 1,
And transmitting an alarm message notifying the start of the game to the participant terminal before a predetermined time. The method of claim 1,
And displaying, at the participant terminal, advertisement content corresponding to at least one of the user information, the region information, and the preferred prize information during the game. A recording medium for recording a program that is implemented as a set of program codes for performing a game method on a computer that provides prizes through a specific game,
The program includes:
A first program code for receiving a participation request request including at least one of user information, region information, and preferred prize information from a participant terminal desiring to participate in the game until a predetermined reception time;
A second program code for accumulating the number of participants who received the participation application request by the reception time and determining a prize corresponding to the accumulated number;
Third program code for providing a game to the participant terminal at a predetermined time; And
And a fourth program code for displaying, on the participant terminal, advertisement content of the determined prize together with the result of winning or losing, when the win or loss of the game is determined.

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