KR20190007796A - Apparatus and method for providing game - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a device and a method for providing a game, wherein the game providing device comprises: a storage part for storing information related to a reserved character list including a character assigned to a user and controlled by the user′s operation; and a control part configured to set a release requested character as the release character in a state that the user is unable to operate the game in the game, and to remove the release requested character from the stored character list upon receiving the release request for the selected character in the retained character list.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GAME [0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game providing apparatus and method, and more particularly, to a game providing apparatus and method for releasing a user's possessed character in a game and automatically playing the game.

Recently, the online game system has provided various characters for playing the game according to the control of the user. In such an online game system, various characters can be controlled by various user inputs.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0986501, which is related to the prior art, provides a method of providing a game service for controlling the operation of a game character according to the movement amount of the mouse according to the movement of the mouse from the user. Thus, the character provided to the user can be directly controlled by the user. Unlike the character controlled by the user, the online game system can provide a character that is not controllable by the user in the game.

As described above, a character that can not be controlled by the user can be called a non-player character (NPC), and serves as a helper for smooth progress of the game in the game. The characters provided to the user are distinguished from such NPCs and can not grow on their own without user control. As a result, some online game systems provide an automatic play function, but they are limited to units such as stages, plates, and turns, and do not require user control to continuously grow as they require user control input for automatic play There was a limit to the degree. Therefore, there has been a problem that the character of the user in the game is operated like the NPC and the character of the user can not be grown by himself / herself.

Therefore, there is a need for techniques to solve the above-described problems.

On the other hand, the background art described above is technical information acquired by the inventor for the derivation of the present invention or obtained in the derivation process of the present invention, and can not necessarily be a known technology disclosed to the general public before the application of the present invention .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0008] It is an object of the present invention to provide a game providing apparatus and method for automatically releasing a user's possessed character in a game.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0008] The embodiments disclosed herein are aimed at providing a game providing apparatus and method that allow a character to grow without the assistance of a user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0008] It is an object of the present invention to provide a game providing apparatus and a game providing game adding function for allowing a user to grow his / her own character in a game.

As a technical means for achieving the above technical object, according to one embodiment, a game providing apparatus includes a storage unit that is allocated to a user and stores information related to a reserved character list including a character controlled by a user's operation, And a control unit configured to set the release requested character as a release character in a state in which the user can not operate the game in the game and to remove the release requested character from the stored character list upon receiving the release request for the selected character in the kept character list.

According to another embodiment, a game providing method performed by a game providing apparatus includes receiving a release request for a character selected from a list of reserved characters assigned to a user and including a character controlled by a user's operation, Setting a character to be released as a release character in a state in which a game can not be performed by all users in the game; and removing the release character from the user's retained character list.

According to yet another embodiment, there is provided a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for performing a game providing method is recorded. The computer-readable recording medium includes a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to execute a release request for a character selected from a reserved character list, Setting a release requested character as a release character in a state in which a game can not be operated by all users in the game; and removing the release character from the user's stored character list.

According to yet another embodiment, there is provided a computer program which is executed by a game providing apparatus and which is assigned to a user as a computer program stored in a medium for performing a game providing method and includes a character selected from a retained character list including a character controlled by a user Setting a release requested character as a release character in a state that can not be operated by all users in the game, and removing the release character from the user's stored character list do.

According to any one of the above-mentioned means for solving the problems, it is possible to provide a game providing apparatus and method for releasing a user's possessed character in a game and automatically playing the game.

In addition, according to any one of the tasks of the present invention, it is possible to provide a game providing apparatus and method that allow a character to grow on his own without assistance of a user.

Further, according to any one of the tasks of the present invention, a game providing apparatus and a game method for presenting a game add-on function that enables a user to grow his / her character by releasing a character in the game can be provided.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a game providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a controller according to one embodiment.
3 is an exemplary diagram for explaining releasing of a user's possessed character in a game providing apparatus according to an embodiment.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a game providing method performed by the game providing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary view for explaining character information according to the growth of a liberated character according to an embodiment.
FIG. 6 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a liberation character participating in a plurality of dungeons according to an embodiment.
7 is an exemplary diagram illustrating channel generation according to an embodiment.
8 is an exemplary diagram for explaining user compensation according to automatic play of a release character according to an embodiment.
9 is an exemplary diagram for explaining an operation of restoring a liberated character to a user's retained character according to an embodiment.
FIG. 10 is an exemplary view for explaining a release character list for managing a release character according to an embodiment.
11 is an exemplary diagram for explaining an alarm according to the growth of a liberated character according to an embodiment.
12 is an exemplary diagram for explaining a one-to-one match with a liberated character according to an embodiment.

Various embodiments are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below may be modified and implemented in various different forms. In order to more clearly describe the features of the embodiments, detailed descriptions of known matters to those skilled in the art are omitted. In the drawings, parts not relating to the description of the embodiments are omitted, and like parts are denoted by similar reference numerals throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a configuration is referred to as being "connected" to another configuration, it includes not only a case of being directly connected, but also a case of being connected with another configuration in between. In addition, when a configuration is referred to as "including ", it means that other configurations may be included, as well as other configurations, as long as there is no specially contradicted description.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Before describing this, we first define the meaning of the terms used below.

The 'character' is a fictional character appearing in the game space, and is a subject controlled by each user and performing a game operation. Each character is visualized as a two- or three-dimensional graphical image and defined by various attributes. Here, the attribute of the character may include a role, a level, a capability value, a ranking, a reputation, a rating, and an experience value.

Such a character may be divided into a 'reserved character' assigned to the user and a 'normal character' not assigned to the user but acting as a helper in the game. Here, the holding character may be defined as a PC (Player Character), and is directly controlled by the user. In addition, a normal character can be defined as a non-player character (hereinafter, referred to as 'NPC'), and is a character such as a monster that can not be directly controlled by a user. Therefore, a normal character can be called a monster. Such a general character acts as a helper for the progress of the game, and can match with the character of the player, or can provide contents such as an item to the user.

The 'liberation character' is a character distinguished from the retained character and the general character described above. The liberation character means a character that is released or dissociated by the user among the retained characters of the user and can be automatically played as a constituent object of the game. Unlike the general character, the liberation character can be grown as the user's possessed character, and the level, the ability value, the ranking, the reputation, the grade, and the experience value can be improved according to the growth of the liberation character. This release character can provide at least some of the compensation obtained by the automatic play to the user who released the release character, and can be restored or converted to the user's retained character at the request of the user.

On the other hand, the release character can be matched with the tag information indicating that the character is released from the user. As described above, the release character can indicate that the character is released from the user by managing the tag information matched to the release character together. At this time, the tag information may further include user identification information for identifying a user who has released the release character. Alternatively, the release character may be managed by the user account of the release character. Therefore, the user can register information on the liberation characters in his / her user account. Also, the release character may be managed using a release character list for collecting and managing all the release characters in the game based on information matched with the user who released the release character.

Terms other than those defined above are explained below separately.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a game providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the game providing apparatus 100 stores various kinds of information required to provide a game, and various events generated in the game are sensed and recorded to enable the game to proceed in a time-series manner.

The game providing apparatus 100 may include a user account for storing various kinds of information required for game play. At this time, the user account may correspond to the user, and characters may be assigned to the user's account. Thus, information about the character held by the user can be stored in the user account. Therefore, the game providing apparatus 100 enables the user to play the game using the holding character.

The game providing apparatus 100 can manage the user's possessed character using the retained character list. Here, the 'retained character list' is a list for managing characters that can be controlled by the user, and the retained characters in the retained character list can be increased or decreased in number by acquiring, creating, removing, combining, . Accordingly, the game providing apparatus 100 can manage the stored character list together with the user account.

The game providing apparatus 100 may set at least a selected one of the user's possessed characters as a release character. The game providing apparatus 100 can remove the character set as the release character from the user's stored character list and automatically play the game without control or manipulation of the user in the game.

Thus, the game providing apparatus 100 can grow the self-released character in the game without intervention of the user. Therefore, the game providing apparatus 100 can manage information about at least one of the level, the ability value, the ranking, the reputation, the rating, the experience value, the possessed goods, and the items given to the liberating character as the information of the releasing character, It is possible to update the related information according to the growth of the user.

The game providing apparatus 100 according to the above description may be embodied as an electronic terminal equipped with a game application or as a server-client system. If the game providing apparatus 100 is implemented as a server-client system, the game providing apparatus 100 may include an electronic terminal equipped with a client for interaction with a user.

At this time, the electronic terminal may be implemented as a computer, a portable terminal, a television, a wearable device, or the like, which may include an interface capable of interacting with a user. Here, the computer includes, for example, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and the like, each of which is equipped with a web browser (WEB Browser), and the portable terminal may be a wireless communication device , Personal Communication System (PCS), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) (W-CDMA), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet), Smart Phone, Mobile WiMAX (Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) (Handheld) based wireless communication device. In addition, the television may include an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), an Internet television (TV), a terrestrial TV, a cable TV, and the like. Further, the wearable device is an information processing device of a type that can be directly worn on a human body, for example, a watch, a glasses, an accessory, a garment, shoes, and the like. The wearable device can be connected to a remote server via a network, Lt; / RTI >

The server of the server-client system may be implemented as a computing device capable of communicating with an electronic terminal equipped with a client via a network, and may include a storage device capable of storing data or a third server (not shown) Data can be stored.

The game providing apparatus 100 may include an input / output unit 110, a communication unit 120, a storage unit 130, and a control unit 140.

The input / output unit 110 may include an input unit for receiving an input from a user, and an output unit for displaying information such as a result of performing a task or a state of the game providing apparatus 100. For example, the input / output unit 110 may include an operation panel for receiving user input and a display panel for displaying a screen.

Specifically, the input unit may include devices capable of receiving various types of user input such as a keyboard, a physical button, a touch screen, a camera or a microphone. Also, the output unit may include a display panel or a speaker. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the input / output unit 110 may include various input / output support structures.

Meanwhile, the communication unit 120 can perform wired / wireless communication with another device or a network. To this end, the communication unit 120 may include a communication module supporting at least one of various wired / wireless communication methods. For example, the communication module may be implemented in the form of a chipset.

The wireless communication supported by the communication unit 120 may be Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity), Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth, UWB (Ultra Wide Band), NFC (Near Field Communication), or the like. The wired communication supported by the communication unit 120 may be, for example, USB or High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). The above-described communication is merely an example, and various communication techniques for enabling the game providing apparatus 100 to perform communication are possible.

Meanwhile, various types of data such as files, applications, programs, and the like may be installed and stored in the storage unit 130.

The storage unit 130 may store information related to the reserved character assigned to the user and may store information related to the released character released from the user's holding character, As shown in FIG. Also, the storage unit 130 may store a holding character list for managing the holding character.

The data stored in the storage unit 130 may be accessed or used by the control unit 140, which will be described later, or the new data may be stored by the control unit 140. [ In addition, the storage unit 130 may store a program that can be executed by the control unit 140. The user account may be implemented as a storage unit 130 as described above, and a character may be assigned to the user account.

Meanwhile, the controller 140 controls the overall operation of the game providing apparatus 100 and may include a processor such as a CPU. The control unit 140 may control other components included in the game providing apparatus 100 to perform an operation corresponding to the user input received through the input /

For example, the control unit 140 may execute a program stored in the storage unit 130, read data stored in the storage unit 130, or store new data in the storage unit 130. [

According to one embodiment, upon receiving an input requesting a user to play a game through the input / output unit 110, the control unit 140 executes the game program stored in the storage unit 130, And can provide a release character from the holding character.

The control unit 140 according to the above will be described in more detail below with reference to Fig.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a controller according to one embodiment.

2, the control unit 140 may include a character providing unit 210, a release character managing unit 220, a compensation providing unit 230, and an alarm providing unit 240.

According to one embodiment, the character providing unit 210 may provide a character to a user participating in the game. The character providing unit 210 can manage the characters provided to the user using the user account.

For example, the character providing unit 210 can manage the user's possessed character using the retained character list. The retained character list may include a retained character controlled by the user.

According to one embodiment, the release character management unit 220 can set the selected character as the release character from the user's stored character. At this time, the release character management unit 220 can select a character to be selected as a release character from the user or directly select it according to a preset rule. For example, the release character management unit 220 can set a character that has reached a predetermined level as a release character.

Next, the release character management section 220 sets the selected character as a release character, and removes the selected character from the list of retained characters of the user. The liberation character management unit 220 may automatically play the liberation character in the game. The liberation character management unit 220 can manage information about at least one of the level, the ability value, the ranking, the reputation, the grade, the experience value, the possessed goods, and the items that can be obtained by automatic play of the liberation character.

For example, the liberation character management unit 220 can calculate the weekly ranking according to automatic play of the liberation character in the game. The weekly ranking is exemplarily described, and the release character management unit 220 can calculate the ranking within various periods and calculate the daily ranking, the monthly ranking, the quarterly ranking, and the annual ranking, Ranking can be calculated. For example, the liberation character management unit 220 may display the weekly ranking on the basis of the activity score, the evaluation score, and the like in the automatic play of the liberated character during the set week, The weekly ranking may be calculated on the basis of the characters including the holding character of all characters and all the releasing characters, or the weekly ranking may be calculated based on only the releasing character. In addition, the release character management unit 220 may restrict characters for calculating weekly ranking by a server unit, a dungeon unit, a channel unit, or the like.

The release character management unit 220 can provide information related to the release character to the user when requesting information related to the release character. For example, the liberation character management unit 220 can provide information on the liberation character to the user who has released the release character. Alternatively, the release character management unit 220 may provide information on the release character to other users who have not released the release character. In this manner, the release character management unit 220 can provide information on a specific release character to all users in the game.

The release character management unit 220 can limit the number of characters that can be released to one user to a predetermined number. For example, the number of characters that can be released to the user can be limited to a maximum of five. At this time, if there are three liberation characters released from the user, the presently released character management unit 200 can restrict the maximum number of characters that can be released to the user to two.

On the other hand, the release character management unit 220 can increase the limited number of characters that can be released to the user by purchasing. To this end, the release character management unit 220 may increase the number of characters that can be released by sensing the use of an item, a cache, a point, or the like in order to increase the number of characters that can be released by the user. For example, when the number of characters that can be released to the user is limited to a maximum of 5 as described above, the number of characters that can be released can be purchased as a cache, and two more characters can be increased. At this time, the number of characters that can be released can be increased to a maximum of seven.

The release character management unit 220 can restore the release character to the user's retained character when the user requests the recovery character for the release character. At this time, the release character management unit 220 may restore the release character back to the user's stored character list and be controlled by the user's operation. When the release character management unit 220 restores the release character to the retained character, the item can be used and the pay item can be used to recover the release character. If necessary, the release character management unit 220 may use a free item as well as a paid item to restore the release character.

The liberation character management unit 220 can limit the attack of the liberated character to the retained character if the retained characters of the user who released the liberated character and the liberated character in the game play against each other. Accordingly, the liberation character management unit 220 can block the attack applied to the user's possessed character who has released the release character from the release character. The release character management unit 220 reflects the attack of the release character on the game image when the player character of the user releasing the release character and the release character is mutually charged so that the damage rate from the release character is zero It can also be set.

On the other hand, the liberation character management unit 220 can release the liberation character into a dungeon which is a divided space in the game. There can be multiple dungeons within the game, which is the activity space of the characters. For example, a plurality of dungeons can be listed in order based on difficulty level, and a higher dungeon can be set to have a higher degree of difficulty than a lower dungeon. On the other hand, there can exist the retained character and the liberation character of the general user in the dungeon. When releasing the liberation character, the liberation character management unit 220 can release the lowest dungeon, for example, a dungeon having the lowest degree of difficulty. If the release character management unit 220 satisfies the condition for movement to the upper dungeon according to automatic play of the release character, the release character can be moved to the next upper dungeon based on the currently positioned dungeon. In this way, the liberation character management unit 220 can grow the liberation character as the retained character assigned to the user by automatic play of the release character.

The liberation character management unit 220 may implement a plurality of channels in one dungeon or may divide one dungeon into a plurality of channels. At this time, the release character and the normal character (NPC) may exist in each of the plurality of channels. In addition, each of the plurality of channels may include a possessed character of a general user. The liberation character management unit 220 can increase the number of channels as it enters the upper dungeon. Accordingly, the liberation character management unit 220 may separately operate the channel including only the release character and the monster, or may disperse the release character to a plurality of channels to prevent dungeon or congestion in the channel due to the release character.

Upon releasing the release character, the release character management unit 220 may preset the recovery condition to the retained character list. In this case, if the release character satisfies the set condition, the release character management unit 220 can restore the release character to the item possessed by the user who released the release character. For example, when a recovery condition as a retained item is set to a level 23 of a liberation character at the level 15, the liberation character management unit 220 sets the liberation character as a retained item of the user at the time the liberation character reaches the 23 level It can also be restored.

In addition, the release character management section 220 can provide the user with an additional function using the release character in the game. For example, the release character management unit 220 may provide the user with a one-to-one fight mode between the release character and the retained character in the game. The liberation character management unit 220 can provide information related to the liberation characters to the user and can advance the game in the one-to-one competition mode with the selected release character from the user. For example, in the case of a fighting game, the releasing character managing unit 220 can provide a fighting game between the user's held character and the released character released from the user in the one-on-one match mode.

According to one embodiment, the compensation provider 230 may provide at least some of the compensation that can be obtained by automatic play to the user who released the release character. The compensation providing unit 230 may provide compensation to a user who has released a certain rate based on the compensation or holding resource obtained from the release character. For example, the reward provider 230 may provide some of the level, abilities, rankings, reputations, ratings, experience values, possessed goods, and items obtained by automatic play of the liberation character to the user who has released the release character .

For example, assuming that gold with the value of money in the game is a good, compensation based on the automatic play of the liberating character can be assumed to be about 10% based on the acquired good. At this time, when the compensation provider 230 acquires 50,000 gold by automatic play of the liberation character, it can provide 5,000 gold in compensation to the user account of the user who liberated the liberation character.

The reward provider 230 can variously determine when the reward is paid to the user account of the user who released the release character. For example, the compensation providing unit 230 may acquire a release character based on a point in time at a predetermined period, a random point in time, a point at which a preset condition is satisfied, a point at which certain compensation is accumulated, At least some of the compensation may be provided to the user account of the user who released the release character.

The alarm providing unit 240 according to an embodiment can alert the user who has released the released character when the information of the released character reaches a predetermined standard preset by the user or the like according to automatic play of the released character. For example, the alarm providing unit 240 may provide an alarm message to the user who has released the unlocking character, when the unlocking character reaches 50 reputation with respect to the unlocking character set to be alarmed when the 50 character is reached. Alternatively, the alarm providing unit 240 can use an open chat window or the like to transmit a message to the entire user, and alarm the user in the form that "XX's character A has acquired 50 reputation" in a form informing the whole user.

In this way, the game providing apparatus 100 can release some of the possessed characters of the user and automatically play in the game like a normal character (NPC). Accordingly, the game providing apparatus 100 can release characters that have grown to a certain level or more, and can cause the characters themselves to grow without control of the user in the game. In addition, the game providing apparatus 100 can allow the user to grow a character that is difficult for the user to grow.

3 is an exemplary diagram for explaining releasing of a user's possessed character in a game providing apparatus according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 3, the game providing apparatus 100 may manage a reserved character list 300 for an arbitrary user. The retained character list 300 may include the characters A to G held by the user. For example, character A is 12 levels and can have 100 abilities, character B is 7 levels and can have 64 abilities, and character C is 9 abilities and can have 80 abilities. Character D can have 20 levels and 173 abilities, character E has 15 levels and can have 140 abilities, character F can have 23 abilities and 211 abilities, character G is 5 abilities, and 47 You can have a stats value.

Meanwhile, the retained character list 300 exemplarily includes the character's level and the ability value (for example, attack power, etc.). However, the retained character list 300 may include ranking, reputation, grade, experience, But may also include other various information.

When the game providing apparatus 100 selects (301) the character D as a character to be released, the character D can be released. The game providing apparatus 100 can remove (310) the released character D from the user's stored character list, and can automatically play the released character D in the game.

Therefore, the game providing apparatus 100 can raise the level and experience value of the character D by automatically playing the liberated character in the game.

The operation of the game providing apparatus will be described with reference to FIG.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a game providing method performed by the game providing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, if the game providing apparatus 100 determines that there is a release request for the selected character D for release (S410), the game providing apparatus 100 proceeds to S420. At this time, the game providing apparatus 100 can select the character D from the character A to the character G of the user as a character for release, and can determine whether a release request for the selected character D exists.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S410 that the release request does not exist, the game providing apparatus 100 waits for a release request.

The game providing apparatus 100 sets the release character D as a release character (S420).

The game providing apparatus 100 removes the release character D from the user's retained character list 300 (S430). As a result, the user can control only the characters of the retained characters A, B, C, E, F, and G, and the release character D can not be controlled by the user.

The game providing apparatus 100 operates the release character D as a character to be automatically played in the game and terminates (S440). The game providing apparatus 100 can grow the liberation character D without control of the user and can also grow the level and the ability value of the liberation character D together. The game providing apparatus 100 can operate the liberation character like a normal character (NPC). However, the release character is distinguished from the general character as a released character from the user's possessed character. Unlike the normal character, the release character is compensated for the user who released the release character at intervals of a predetermined period, or by the request of the released user, It can be restored to the retained character.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view for explaining character information according to the growth of a liberated character according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 5, the game providing apparatus 100 may control the release character 510 to be automatically played. At this time, as an example for explaining the automatic play of the release character in the game providing apparatus 100, a description will be given of the game between the release character 510 and the character 520 (501). Here, the character 520 may be a general character (NPC), a user's possessed character, or a liberated character of another user, and shows one character 520, but other characters may additionally play a liberated character. For example, the game providing apparatus 100 may cause the releasing character of the user who released the character to be charged with the general character or the user who has released the character. Alternatively, the game providing apparatus 100 may make the releasing character of the user releasing the character match with the releasing character of another user, or may match the holding character of another user.

In this manner, the game providing apparatus 100 can release the released character in addition to the normal character (NPC) such as a monster in the game, and can provide rich contents in the game. For example, the game providing apparatus 100 can distribute the number, type, and growth rate of the released characters in various ways by releasing or restoring the user's possessed character, so that the contents in the game according to the user's play can be used So that it can be expanded further.

The game providing apparatus 100 can manage information according to the growth of the release character 510. [ For example, the game providing apparatus 100 may include the character name D, the level 23, the ability value 202, the weekly ranking 2333, the reputation 48, the holding gold 34 and 452, Experience value 86, and item (7 items). The game providing apparatus 100 may update the information of the release character 510 by a match with the character 520. [

For example, the release character 510 may obtain a new item by automatic play. If the new item is a weapon, armor, or the like and can be worn on the liberating character 510, it may be set to automatically wear the item with the highest ability or maximize the character's ability. When the liberating character 510 is currently wearing a 'knife' item with an attack strength of 180, it is possible to newly acquire an 'ax' item with an attack power of 223. At this time, the game providing apparatus 100 can switch the attack item of the release character from 'knife' to 'ax' without user control, and wear it. Alternatively, when the new item is a potion that buffs the attack power, the physical strength, and the like for a certain period of time, the game providing apparatus 100 may automatically apply the potion to the release character 510 to accelerate the growth of the release character 510 .

On the other hand, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide a play scene (for example, 501) of the release character to the user who has released the release character. The game providing apparatus 100 can provide a play scene of the release character to the user when the user who requests release of the release character is requested to release the release character. The game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user with the fun of the caliber by providing the user who released the release character with the play scene of the character released by the user.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a liberation character participating in a plurality of dungeons according to an embodiment.

6, the game providing apparatus 100 may provide the user with a plurality of dungeons 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, and 618 that can release the release character 600 .

For example, multiple dungeons can be listed from Dungeon 1 (611), the lowest ranked dungeon to Dungeon 8 (618), the highest ranked dungeon, based on the difficulty. At this time, Dungeon 1 (611) can have the lowest difficulty level, and Dungeon 8 (618) can have the highest difficulty. Therefore, Dungeon 2 (612) is more difficult than Dungeon 1 (611), and Dungeon 3 (613) is more difficult than Dungeon 2 (612). Therefore, the difficulty from Dungeon 1 (611) to Dungeon 8 (618) can be increased sequentially.

For example, when releasing the release character 600, the game providing apparatus 100 may release the dungeon 1 (611), which is the lowest dungeon among the plurality of dungeons. Accordingly, when the game providing apparatus 100 satisfies the condition for the rise to the upper dungeon according to the growth of the releasing character 600, the game providing apparatus 100 can move the releasing character 600 to the upper dungeon.

For example, Dungeons 1 (611) to Dungeon 8 (618) may be composed of only the Liberation Characters. At this time, the dungeon in which one user's liberation character enters may exist in other users' liberation characters. However, the dungeons 1 to 611 may include at least some of the liberation character, the user character (i.e., the user's holding character), and the general character (NPC, or monster) 100) can play the game in the one-to-one competition mode between the characters.

7 is an exemplary diagram illustrating channel generation according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 7, the game providing apparatus 100 may generate a plurality of channels. The game providing apparatus 100 can generate a channel based on the dungeon.

For example, it can be assumed that a plurality of dungeons 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 617, and 618 can be listed based on difficulty level and the like. At this time, from Dungeon 1 (611) to Dungeon 8 (618), you can have successively higher difficulty level. Therefore, Dungeon 1 (611) has the lowest difficulty, and Dungeon 8 (618) has the highest difficulty. At this time, the generation of the channel based on the dungeon 5 (615) is exemplified by dividing it into (a) and (b).

(a), the game providing apparatus 100 may generate three channels 621, 622, and 623 in the dungeon 5 (615). Here, the game providing apparatus 100 may generate three channels 621, 622, and 623. The game providing apparatus 100 may enter the liberation character into one of the three channels 621, 622, and 623 divided in the dungeon 5 (615).

(b), the game providing apparatus 100 may implement the dungeon 5 (615) distributed to each of the three channels 631, 632, and 633. Here, the game providing apparatus 100 transmits the dungeon 5-1 6151 to the channel 1 631, the dungeon 5-2 6152 to the channel 2 632, the dungeon 5-3 6153 to the channel 3 633, Can be implemented. Therefore, the game providing apparatus 100 transmits a release character to the dungeons 5-1 6151, the dungeon 5-2 6152, and the dungeon 5-3 6153 implemented in the three channels 631, 632, and 633, respectively Can enter.

The game providing apparatus 100 may generate a channel including a liberation character and a general character (NPC), and may randomly generate a channel based on a dungeon of a higher grade satisfying a predetermined criterion. Also, the game providing apparatus 100 may include a release character and a normal character (NPC) in a channel to be generated.

Here, the game providing apparatus 100 exemplarily describes generation of three channels, but it is also possible to generate channels other than three.

8 is an exemplary diagram for explaining user compensation according to automatic play of a release character according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 8, it is possible to provide compensation obtained from the release character to the user who released the release character. For this purpose, the play compensation provided to the release character by the play of the release character and the user compensation provided to the user who released the release character are shown on the basis of various embodiments.

In the first embodiment, if the play compensation of the release character is 3250 gold (here, gold has the in-game goods function), the game providing apparatus 100 can provide 325 gold to the user who released the release character as user compensation have. In this way, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user with compensation corresponding to a ratio of about 10% based on the play compensation of the release character.

In the second embodiment, if the play compensation of the release character is 3250 gold, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide 1625 gold as a user compensation to the user who released the release character. In this way, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user with compensation corresponding to a ratio of about 50% based on the play compensation of the release character.

In the third embodiment, if the play compensation of the release character is 3250 gold, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide 3250 gold as a user compensation to the user who released the release character. In this manner, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user with compensation corresponding to a ratio of about 100% based on the play compensation of the release character.

The game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user compensation to the user who liberated the release character at various ratios different from the first to third embodiments based on the play compensation of the release character.

In the fourth embodiment, if the play compensation of the release character is 250 experience, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide 25 experience points to the user who released the release character as user compensation. In this way, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user with compensation corresponding to a ratio of about 10% based on the play compensation of the release character. In this manner, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide user compensation at various other ratios as described in the first to third embodiments with respect to the experience value.

In the fifth embodiment, if the play characters of the release character are seven items, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide one item as a user compensation to the user who has released the release character. For example, the game providing apparatus 100 can select one item with the highest rating or lowest rating. The game providing apparatus 100 may select the earliest item or the earliest earned item. On the other hand, the game providing apparatus 100 may select one item from among the remaining items except the items automatically worn on the liberated character among the acquired items. As described above, when the game providing apparatus 100 selects some of the plurality of items obtained by the release character and provides the selected item to the user, the game providing apparatus 100 can select the item according to various other conditions.

In the sixth embodiment, if the play characters of the release character are seven items, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide three items as user compensation to the user who has released the release character. For example, the game providing apparatus 100 can select an item existing within a predetermined grade (or level, attack power, attribute (defense, attack, magic, etc.)). In this manner, the game providing apparatus 100 may provide the user with a plurality of items as user compensation, unlike the fifth embodiment, based on the play compensation of the release character.

In the seventh embodiment, when the play character of the release character is 20 characters, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user who has released the release character with four characters as user compensation. In this manner, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide the user with compensation corresponding to a ratio of about 20% based on the play compensation of the release character.

In this way, the game providing apparatus 100 can provide compensation to the user who has released the release character based on the play compensation of the release character, that is, the user account, and can set the various ratios and the number. Also, the game providing apparatus 100 may set a ratio or a number based on information of the release character, for example, level, ability, rank, reputation, grade, experience value, possessed goods, and items.

As the compensation is provided, the user can liberate the level of the character he / she wants to release to a state in which he / she is liberated and released to a state in which the compensation can be obtained easily.

9 is an exemplary diagram for explaining an operation of restoring a liberated character to a user's retained character according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 9, the game providing apparatus 100 can recover the released character released from any user. First, the game providing apparatus 100 can manage the reserved character list 700 for an arbitrary user. The retained character list 700 may include the characters A to G held by the user. For example, character A is 12 levels and can have 100 abilities, character B is 7 levels and can have 64 abilities, and character C is 9 abilities and can have 80 abilities. Character E has 15 levels and can have 140 abilities, character F has 23 abilities and 211 abilities, and character G has 5 abilities and 47 abilities.

Here, the character D (710) is a release character. Character D (710) has 23 levels and can have 202 abilities. At this time, the game providing apparatus 100 may select the character D (710) as the release character and restore the selected character D (710) to the user's holding character. As a result, it is possible to confirm the state 701 in which the character D (710) is restored to the user's retained character on the retained character list (700).

On the other hand, the game providing apparatus 100 can be selected by judging whether the release character is selected from the user or whether it satisfies predetermined conditions (for example, a predetermined level, a capability value, a reputation, etc.) preset by the user.

FIG. 10 is an exemplary view for explaining a release character list for managing a release character according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 10, the game providing apparatus 100 may manage characters released from users in the form of a release character list. The release character list may include a release character D, a release character J, a release character L, a release character M, a release character P, a release character X, and a release character Y. [

Here, the liberation character D is at the 22 level and is the character released from the eleventh user U11. The release character J is at level 30, and is the character released from the fifteenth user U15. The liberation character L is 17 level, and is the character released from the 23rd user U23. Is a character liberated character M 35, and released from the 23rd user U23. The liberation character P is at 12 levels and is a character released from the 61st user U61. The liberation character X is at level 51 and is a character released from the seventh user U70. And the liberation character Y are 33 levels and released from the 83rd user U83. For reference, the release character L and the release character M are characters released by the same user (the 23rd user).

In this manner, the game providing apparatus 100 can manage information about the user who has released the released character, and can provide information on the released character upon request from the released user. Since the game providing apparatus 100 manages the information on the released character, the game providing apparatus 100 can restore the released character to the user's held character list (or user account) upon request from the user who released the released character.

11 is an exemplary diagram for explaining an alarm according to the growth of a liberated character according to an embodiment.

The game providing apparatus 100 can provide an alarm to the user for restoring the character of the user. At this time, a screen 901 of the user's terminal 900 is shown, and an alarm 910 is provided using the screen 901. For example, the alarm 910 indicates that the user's character D has reached level 23. Do you recover the character D '? In addition, the alarm 910 may include an alarm message together with a button for inputting a message of 'Yes' and 'No' from the user.

12 is an exemplary diagram for explaining a one-to-one match with a liberated character according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 12, the game providing apparatus 100 may provide a one-to-one match mode with a character selected from the characters released by the user for each user. To this end, when the game providing apparatus 100 is requested to proceed with the one-to-one match mode with the release character, the game providing apparatus 100 selects an opponent opponent who can advance the game in the one-to-one match mode on the screen 1001 of the user terminal 1000 Message 1010. < / RTI > For example, the opponent selection message 1010 may include the message "There are three liberating characters: Please select a character for a one-on-one match." The opponent selection message 1010 includes an input button for selecting characters D, F and K, which are released characters released by the user, and an end button for ending the one-to-one match mode .

The term " part " used in the above embodiments means a hardware component such as a software or a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an ASIC, and the 'part' performs certain roles. However, 'part' is not meant to be limited to software or hardware. &Quot; to " may be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and may be configured to play one or more processors. Thus, by way of example, 'parts' may refer to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components and task components, and processes, functions, , Subroutines, segments of program patent code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.

The functions provided within the components and components may be combined with a smaller number of components and components or separated from additional components and components.

In addition, the components and components may be implemented to play back one or more CPUs in a device or a secure multimedia card.

The game providing method according to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 4 may also be implemented in the form of a computer-readable medium storing instructions and data executable by a computer. At this time, the command and data may be stored in the form of program code, and when executed by the processor, a predetermined program module may be generated to perform a predetermined operation. In addition, the computer-readable medium can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. The computer-readable medium can also be a computer storage medium, which can be volatile and non-volatile, implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data, Volatile, removable and non-removable media. For example, the computer recording medium may be a magnetic storage medium such as an HDD and an SSD, an optical recording medium such as a CD, a DVD and a Blu-ray Disc, or a memory included in a server accessible via a network.

Also, the game providing method according to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 4 may be implemented by a computer program (or a computer program product) including instructions executable by a computer. A computer program includes programmable machine instructions that are processed by a processor and can be implemented in a high-level programming language, an object-oriented programming language, an assembly language, or a machine language . The computer program may also be recorded on a computer readable recording medium of a type (e.g., memory, hard disk, magnetic / optical medium or solid-state drive).

Accordingly, the game providing method according to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 4 can be implemented by the computer program as described above being executed by the computing device. The computing device may include a processor, a memory, a storage device, a high-speed interface connected to the memory and a high-speed expansion port, and a low-speed interface connected to the low-speed bus and the storage device. Each of these components is connected to each other using a variety of buses and can be mounted on a common motherboard or mounted in any other suitable manner.

Where the processor may process instructions within the computing device, such as to display graphical information to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) on an external input, output device, such as a display connected to a high speed interface And commands stored in memory or storage devices. As another example, multiple processors and / or multiple busses may be used with multiple memory and memory types as appropriate. The processor may also be implemented as a chipset comprised of chips comprising multiple independent analog and / or digital processors.

The memory also stores information within the computing device. In one example, the memory may comprise volatile memory units or a collection thereof. In another example, the memory may be comprised of non-volatile memory units or a collection thereof. The memory may also be another type of computer readable medium such as, for example, a magnetic or optical disk.

And the storage device can provide a large amount of storage space to the computing device. The storage device may be a computer readable medium or a configuration including such a medium and may include, for example, devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network) or other configurations, and may be a floppy disk device, a hard disk device, Or a tape device, flash memory, or other similar semiconductor memory device or device array.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiments are for illustrative purposes only and that those skilled in the art will readily understand that other embodiments can be readily modified without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the embodiments described above You will understand. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

It is to be understood that the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description and should be construed as including all changes and modifications that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims, .

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A storage unit for storing information related to a reserved character list including a character assigned to a user and controlled by a user's operation; And
And a control unit configured to set the release requested character as a release character in a state in which the user can not operate the game in the game and remove the character from the list of reserved characters upon receiving a release request for the selected character in the list of reserved characters, . The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
And the release character is operated as a character to be automatically played in the game. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
And information about at least one of a level, a capability value, a ranking, a reputation, a rating, an experience value, a possessed good, and an item obtainable by automatic play of the liberation character. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
Wherein when a release character that automatically plays in one of the dungeons divided into a plurality of classes meets predetermined conditions, the game character is moved to the upper dungeon. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
And provides at least part of the compensation obtained by automatic play of the release character to the user account that released the release character. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein,
And provides the compensation to the user account of the user who released the release character at regular intervals. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
And when the information of the release character reaches the predetermined growth condition by automatic play of the release character, alerts the user who released the release character. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
And limits the number of characters that can be released in the reserved character list to a predetermined number. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
Upon receiving the recovery request for the release character from the user who has released the release character, restores the release character to the list of reserved characters of the user and is controlled by the operation of the user. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein,
And upon receiving the restoration request, restoring the liberation character to the user's possessed character list after detecting use of the item by the user. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
Wherein the possessing character of the user releasing the liberating character and the releasing character play the match, and the holding character sets the damage ratio of the releasing character to zero (0) either not being attacked by the releasing character or attacking the releasing character. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
And provides a one-to-one fight mode between the user's possessed character and the liberated character upon request of the user who has released the liberated character. A game providing method performed by a game providing apparatus,
Receiving a release request for a selected character from a list of reserved characters assigned to a user and including a character controlled by a user's operation; And
Setting the release requested character as a release character in a state in which the game can not be operated by all users in the game, and removing the released character from the list of reserved characters of the user. 14. The method of claim 13,
After the step of removing from the user's retained character list,
And operating the liberated character as a character to be automatically played in the game. 15. The method of claim 14,
Wherein the act of operating as the automatically played character comprises:
And providing at least some of the compensation obtained by the automatic play of the release character to the user account that released the release character. 14. The method of claim 13,
After the step of removing from the user's retained character list,
Receiving a recovery request for the release character from a user who has released the release character; And
And upon receiving the recovery request for the release character, restoring the release character to the user's list of reserved characters and being controlled by the user. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method according to claim 13. A computer program stored in a medium for performing the method of claim 13, which is performed by a game providing apparatus device.

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