WO2018155023A1

WO2018155023A1 - Game device and program

Info

Publication number: WO2018155023A1
Application number: PCT/JP2018/001460
Authority: WO
Inventors: 桂一松並; 須藤　豊; 嗣治長澤; 岩崎　剛
Original assignee: 株式会社セガゲームス
Priority date: 2017-02-22
Filing date: 2018-01-18
Publication date: 2018-08-30
Also published as: CN109789336A; CN109789336B; JP6341474B1; JP2018134240A

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to save printing materials. This game device is provided with: an execution means 100 for executing a game using a printed material; a reception means 102 for receiving payment of a value medium from a player; a determination means 122 that, when the reception means receives the payment of the value medium, determines one provisional printing content from a plurality of provisional printing contents to be printed on a material to be printed; a notification means 104 for notifying the player of the provisional printing content; a selection means 106 for receiving from the player a selection on whether to authorize the provisional printing content to be printed on the object to be printed; and a print control means 108 that, when the selection means 106 receives a selection to authorize printing, defines the provisional printing content as a printing content and prints the printing content on the object to be printed, and when the selection means receives a selection not to authorize printing, does not perform printing on the object to be printed.

Description

GAME DEVICE AND PROGRAM

The present invention relates to a game device and a program.

Conventionally, when a player pays a fee, one print content is determined from among a plurality of print contents (for example, a character picture) by lottery or the like, and the determined print content is printed on a card. There is a known game device (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2016-107018

However, in the conventional game device as described above, the card that is provided to the player is of a type that the player does not want, such as a type that the player already possesses, or a card that has a low rarity value. It may be a thing. As a result of various investigations, when the card provided to the player is of a kind that the player does not want, even if the card is provided, the player does not receive or discards the card, Confirmed that it may not be used. Thus, if the card is never used, printing is wasted and printing resources such as card and ink are wasted.

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object thereof is to provide a game device and a program that can save printing resources.

A game device according to an aspect of the present invention includes an execution unit that executes a game using printed matter;
An accepting unit that accepts payment of a value medium by a player, and when the accepting unit accepts payment of the value medium, one provisional printing content is determined from a plurality of provisional printing contents to be printed on the printed matter. A determination means, a notification means for notifying the player of the provisional printing content, a selection means for accepting a selection by the player as to whether or not to permit the printing of the provisional printing content on the printed matter, and a selection of permission. When the selection means accepts, the provisional print content is confirmed as print content, the print content is printed on the printed matter, and when the selection means accepts the selection of not permitting, the printed matter is printed on the printed matter. Printing control means that does not. Note that the game device may be composed of one device or may be composed of two or more devices.

According to this aspect, since the temporary printing content is notified to the player before the temporary printing content is determined as the printing content, the player determines whether or not the printing content printed on the card is an undesired type of printing content. Can be determined before printing. Further, according to this aspect, since the player accepts the selection as to whether or not to allow the provisional printing content to be printed on the printed matter, the player determines that the provisional printing content is of an undesired type. The user can select not to allow printing. In this case, since the printing control means does not print on the printed matter, it is possible to suppress useless printing and save printing resources.

According to the present invention, printing resources can be saved.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the overall configuration of a game system including a game device according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the appearance of the game apparatus. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration of the game apparatus shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the server apparatus illustrated in FIG. FIG. 5 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the game device and the server device. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing executed by the game device and the server device 12 when the card print button is pressed when a game screen including a card print button is displayed on the monitor of the game device, for example. is there. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a selection screen displayed on the game device by the selection unit.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in each figure, what attached | subjected the same code | symbol has the same or similar structure.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a game system 1 including a game device according to the present embodiment. As illustrated, the game system 1 includes one or more game apparatuses 10 and a server apparatus 12. The game apparatus 10 and the server apparatus 12 are connected to each other via a communication network NT such as the Internet.

The game device 10 is a device including a printing device that prints on a printed material, and provides a game using the printed material to a player. The game device 10 is an information processing device such as an arcade game device, a consumer game device, a mobile phone, a tablet, or a personal computer installed in an amusement facility, for example. In the present embodiment, a case where the game apparatus 10 is an arcade game apparatus will be described. The game provided by the game apparatus 10 is not particularly limited as long as it is a game using printed matter. Although the printed material is not particularly limited, in the present embodiment, a character, an item, a monster, or the like is printed, and various information (such as ability parameters) such as the printed character is recorded. The character or the like printed on the card appears in the game by reading various information recorded on the card, for example.

The server device 12 is an information processing device that has a part of functions when the game device 10 provides a game, for example, manages various information about the player or executes a part of the processing of the game. is there. The server device 12 appropriately refers to various information or transmits it to the request source in response to a request from the game device 10.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the appearance of the game apparatus 10. As illustrated, the game apparatus 10 has a main body 22.

The main body 22 has a console 24. On the console 24, an appropriate type and number of operation members are arranged for the player to perform various operations. The type and number of operation members are arbitrary. The console of this embodiment includes a single or a plurality of operation buttons 26, a card reader 28, a fee payment unit 30, and the like.

The operation button 26 is used, for example, for inputting a selection operation or a determination operation.

The card reader 28 reads information from the card placed by the player using, for example, electromagnetic waves.

The fee payment unit 30 is a place where the player pays the game fee. The type of game fee is an arbitrary value medium such as coins, bills, electronic money, points, and the like. In the present embodiment, the fee payment unit 30 is configured to accept coin insertion. Coins inserted into the fee payment unit 30 are detected by a coin detector 30A (see FIG. 3) installed in the main body 22.

A lower part of the main body 22 includes a card providing unit 32 that includes a printing device that prints print contents (for example, a picture of a character) on a card, and provides the printed card to a player. In addition, an output device such as a monitor 34 is provided on the upper portion of the main body 22.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration of the game apparatus 10 shown in FIG. As illustrated, the game apparatus 10 includes a processing device 50. The processing device 50 is connected to the operation member 52, the output device 54, the printing device 56, and the communication device 58. The processing unit 50 exchanges signals with these devices, thereby realizing the functional configuration described below.

The processing device 50 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 60 and a storage device 62. The storage device 62 can be configured by a known storage device such as a ROM, a RAM, a hard disk, or the like alone or in combination.

The operation member 52 includes the operation button 26, the card reader 28, the fee payment unit 30 and the like. The output device includes the monitor 34 described above. The printing device 56 is built in the card providing unit 32. The communication device 58 is a device for communicating with the server device 12 and other game devices 10 through the network NT.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the server device 12 illustrated in FIG. As illustrated, the server device 12 includes a control device 70, a communication device 76, and a storage device 78 as a hardware configuration. The control device 70 mainly includes a CPU 72 and a memory 74.

In the control device 70, the CPU 72 functions as various function realizing means by executing a predetermined program stored in the memory 74 or the storage device 78. Details of this function realizing means will be described later.

The communication device 76 includes a communication interface for communicating with an external device. The communication device 76 transmits and receives various types of information to and from the game device 10, for example.

The storage device 78 is composed of a hard disk or the like. The storage device 78 stores various programs and various information necessary for execution of processing in the control device 70 and information on processing results.

The server device 12 can be realized using an information processing device such as a dedicated or general-purpose server computer. Note that the server device 12 may be configured by a single information processing device or may be configured by a plurality of information processing devices distributed on the communication network NT.

Note that FIG. 4 shows only a part of the main hardware configuration of the server apparatus 12, and the server apparatus 12 can have other configurations generally provided in the server.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the game apparatus 10 and the server apparatus 12. As illustrated, the game apparatus 10 includes an execution unit 100, a reception unit 102, a notification unit 104, a selection unit 106, and a print control unit 108.

The execution unit 100, the notification unit 104, the selection unit 106, and the print control unit 108 are realized by, for example, the processing device 50 shown in FIG. 3 executing a program. The accepting unit 102 is realized by, for example, the coin detector 30A.

The execution means 100 is a functional means for executing a game using a card as a printed matter. Specifically, the execution means 100 reads various information recorded on the card with the card reader 28 and executes the game in a form reflecting the various information. Further, the execution means 100 acquires the play data 120A of the player from the server device 12, and executes the game in a form reflecting the play data 120A.

The accepting means 102 is a functional means for accepting coin payment by the player when the coin detector 30A detects the coin.

The informing means 104, when the accepting means 102 accepts the payment of the coin, one temporary print automatically determined from a plurality of provisional print contents (print information of the character information 120B) for printing on the card. This is a functional means for notifying the player of the contents.

The selection means 106 is a functional means for accepting selection by the player as to whether or not to allow the provisional printing content to be printed on the card.

When the selection means 106 accepts the selection to permit, the print control means 108 confirms the provisional print content as the print content, prints the confirmed print content on the card, and selects the selection not to be permitted. If accepted, it is a functional means that does not print on the card.

The server device 12 includes a storage unit 120, a determination unit 122, a grant unit 124, and a processing unit 126. The storage unit 120 is realized by, for example, one or a plurality of storage devices 78 shown in FIG. The determining unit 122, the assigning unit 124, and the processing unit 126 are realized, for example, when the control device 70 illustrated in FIG. 4 executes a program.

The storage means 120 stores play data 120A, a plurality of character information 120B, and the like. The character information 120B includes various information such as print information (temporary print contents) of characters that can appear in the game and ability parameters. In addition, when temporary printing content is determined, the storage unit 120 stores printing reservation information 120C including the temporary printing content and the determined date and time.

The determining unit 122 is a functional unit that automatically determines one temporary print content from among a plurality of temporary print contents to be printed on a card when the receiving unit 102 receives a coin payment.

The granting unit 124 is a functional unit that gives a reward other than the card to the player when the selection unit 106 accepts the selection of not permitting. Other rewards can include rewards that can be used other than games and rewards that can be used for games.

Rewards that can be used other than games include points for commercial transactions and other games, prizes, and the like.

The rewards that can be used for the game include game items, virtual currency, right data that can be printed on a card with predetermined print contents, and a plurality of predetermined or randomly determined temporary print contents. Right data that allows the player to determine one temporary print content. In other words, this right data is data necessary for the player to designate and print one temporary print content from a plurality of temporary print content. The right data that can be printed on the card with predetermined print contents is, for example, a point (or stamp) for printing a stronger version of the character indicated by the character information determined by the determining means 122. May be. In this case, the points may be managed for each character. In the present embodiment, when the points of the character information determined by the determining unit 122 are accumulated up to a predetermined value, a stronger or rarer character can be printed with respect to the character indicated by the character information.
Note that a plurality of other rewards may be prepared, and the granting unit 124 may cause the player to select one or more rewards from a plurality of other rewards, and grant the selected reward to the player.

The processing unit 126 stores the reservation information to be printed in the storage unit when the provisional print content is determined, and the selection unit 106 accepts the selection of permitting and the print control unit 108 prints on the card; and When the selection means 106 accepts the selection of not permitting, it is a functional means for performing additional processing on the reservation information 120C in each case. This addition process is, for example, a process of adding (associating) data indicating completion or processing to the reservation information 120C, or deleting the reservation information 120C.

FIG. 6 shows a flow of processing executed by the game device 10 and the server device 12 when the card print button is pressed when a game screen including a card print button is displayed on the monitor 34 of the game device 10, for example. It is a flowchart to show.

(Step SP10)
The execution means 100 of the game apparatus 10 displays a screen for requesting the player to pay coins. Thereafter, the accepting unit 102 accepts payment of coins by the player. And a process transfers to the process of step SP12.

(Step SP12)
The execution unit 100 transmits a lottery request to the server device 12. And a process transfers to the process of step SP14.

(Step SP14)
The server device 12 receives a lottery request from the game device 10. In response to this, the determination unit 122 of the server device 12 determines one character information from among the plurality of character information 120B stored in the storage unit 120 by lottery. Here, since the character information 120B includes provisional printing contents (printing information) to be printed on the card, one provisional printing content is determined from a plurality of provisional printing contents. And a process transfers to the process of step SP16.

(Step SP16)
The processing unit 126 of the server device 12 associates the character information 120B (including provisional print contents) determined by the determining unit 122 with, for example, the identification information of the player and the date / time determined by the determining unit 122, and sets them as reservation information. Store in the storage unit 120 as 120C.

(Step SP18)
The determination unit 122 transmits the lottery result (determination result) to the game apparatus 10. And a process transfers to the process of step SP20.

(Step SP20)
The game device 10 receives the lottery result from the server device 12. In response to this, the notification means 104 of the game apparatus 10 notifies the player of the lottery result. As a notification method, for example, a screen showing a lottery result is displayed on the game apparatus 10 or a lottery result is notified by voice. And a process transfers to the process of step SP22.

(Step SP22)
The selection unit 106 of the game apparatus 10 displays a selection screen on the game apparatus 10, for example, thereby allowing the player to select whether or not to print the lottery result (including provisional print contents) notified by the notification unit 104 on the printed matter. . The notification described in step SP20 may be performed when the selection unit 106 displays the selection screen in step SP22.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a selection screen displayed on the game apparatus 10 by the selection unit 106. As illustrated, the selection screen 200 is provided with a print button 202 and a point grant button 204. And a process transfers to the process of step SP24.

(Step SP24)
The selection means 106 accepts the selection by the player as to whether or not to allow the temporary printing content to be printed on the card. Specifically, the selection unit 106 determines whether a press of the print button 202 by the player is accepted or a press of the point grant button 204 is accepted. When the pressing of the print button 202 is accepted, the selection unit 106 determines that the provisional print content is permitted to be printed on the card, and the process proceeds to the process of step SP26, and the point grant button 204 is received. Is received, it is determined that the provisional print content is not permitted to be printed on the card, and the process proceeds to step SP34.

(Step SP26)
The print control means 108 of the game apparatus 10 controls the printing apparatus 56 to print the print information (temporary print content) among the character information determined by the determination means 122 on the card. At this time, the game apparatus 10 records information other than the print information among the character information determined by the determination unit 122 on the card. And a process transfers to the process of step SP28.

(Step SP28)
The print control unit 108 determines whether printing has failed due to a card jam or the like. If the determination is affirmative, the process proceeds to step SP38. If the determination is negative, the process proceeds to step SP30.

(Step SP30)
The print control unit 108 transmits a print completion report to the server device 12. And a process transfers to the process of step SP32.

(Step SP32)
The processing means 126 of the server device 12 adds (corresponds) data such as completed or processed to the reservation information associated with the identification information of the player who paid the coin in step SP10, or makes a reservation. The information is deleted or some additional processing is performed on the reservation information. Then, a series of processes shown in FIG.

(Step SP34)
When it is determined in step SP24 that printing on the card is not permitted, the selection unit 106 transmits a point grant request to the server device 12 as a reward other than the card. And a process transfers to the process of step SP36.

(Step SP36)
The server device 12 receives the grant request from the game device 10. In response to this, the giving means 124 of the server device 12 gives points to the player. Specifically, the granting unit 124 adds the points to be given to the points recorded in the play data 120A corresponding to the player. As described above, this point is used, for example, to print a stronger version of the character indicated by the character information determined by the determining unit 122. And a process transfers to the process of step SP32.

(Step SP38)
If an affirmative determination is made in step SP28, the selection means 106 of the game apparatus 10 displays on the game apparatus 10 a selection screen that allows the player to select again whether or not to use points instead of cards. And a process transfers to the process of step SP40.

(Step SP40)
The selection means 106 determines whether or not to select points on the selection screen. If an affirmative determination is made, the process proceeds to step SP36. If a negative determination is made, a series of processes illustrated in FIG. 6 is completed without performing any process on the reservation information. To do.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the temporary printing content is notified to the player before the temporary printing content is determined as the printing content, the player is the kind of printing content that the printing content printed on the card is not desired. It can be determined before printing. Further, according to this aspect, since the player accepts the selection as to whether or not to allow the temporary printing content to be printed on the card, the player determines that the temporary printing content is of an undesired type. The user can select not to allow printing. In this case, since the print control unit 108 does not print on the card, useless printing can be suppressed and printing resources can be saved.

Further, according to the present embodiment, when the selection means 106 accepts the selection of not permitting, the player is given a sense that the player has paid for the coin but lost because the reward other than the card is given to the player. Can be suppressed, so that the willingness to pay the coin again to obtain the card can be maintained.

Further, according to the present embodiment, since other rewards include rewards that can be used for the game, the player can be given a motivation to continue the game.

Further, according to the present embodiment, since the reward includes data necessary for the player to designate and print one temporary print content from among a plurality of temporary print content, the player has the right to determine the temporary print content. It is possible to give the enjoyment of selecting and determining provisional printing contents.

Further, according to the present embodiment, when printing fails and point granting is not desired, no processing is performed on the reservation information 120C as described in step SP40. Similarly, when a communication error occurs at step SP18 or the like, no additional processing is performed on the reservation information 120C. Therefore, the administrator of the server device 12 confirms that the reservation information 120C has not been processed, so that the printing is re-executed on another game device 10, the store clerk hands over the card or the prize, or the cause of the printing failure It is possible to cope with the case where printing fails, such as finding and correcting the error.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. That is, the above-described embodiments, in which those skilled in the art appropriately modify the design, are included in the scope of the present invention as long as they have the characteristics of the present invention. Moreover, each element with which embodiment mentioned above is provided can be combined as long as it is technically possible, and the combination of these is also included in the scope of the present invention as long as it includes the features of the present invention.

For example, although the case where the determination unit 122, the grant unit 124, the processing unit 126, and the storage unit 120 are provided in the server device 12 has been described, all or part of them may be provided in the game device 10. Moreover, although the execution means 100 demonstrated the case where it was provided in the game device 10, you may provide in the server apparatus 12. FIG. In this case, the game apparatus 10 provides the game to the player by receiving the game executed by the server apparatus 12.

Further, when one of the game devices 10 shown in FIG. 1 is a terminal device, the game device according to the present embodiment may be configured by one or more terminal devices and the server device 12.

Also, the value medium for which payment has been accepted may be returned to the player in response to a device trouble or the like. In this case, before informing the player of the lottery result, the game device 10 consumes the value medium at the timing when the lottery result is received from the server device 12, and makes it non-returnable. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the player from performing an illegal act (such as power-off) that prevents the value medium from being consumed when the lottery result is not liked.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Game device, 100 ... Execution means, 102 ... Reception means, 104 ... Notification means, 106 ... Selection means, 108 ... Printing control means, 120 ... Storage means, 122 ... Determination means, 124 ... Granting means, 126 ... Processing means

Claims

Execution means for executing a game using printed matter;
Accepting means for accepting payment of the value medium by the player;
A determination unit that determines one temporary printing content from a plurality of temporary printing content for printing on the printed matter when the receiving unit receives payment of the value medium;
An informing means for informing the player of the provisional printing content;
Selection means for accepting a selection by a player as to whether or not to permit printing of the temporary print content on the printed matter;
When the selection means accepts the selection of permitting, the provisional print content is confirmed as the print content, the print content is printed on the printed matter, and the selection means accepts the selection of not permitting Printing control means not printing on the printed matter;
A game device comprising:
If the selection means accepts the selection of not permitting, it further comprises grant means for giving a reward other than the printed matter to the player.
The game device according to claim 1.
The reward includes a reward that can be used for the game,
The game device according to claim 2.
The reward includes data necessary for the player to designate and print one temporary print content from among a plurality of temporary print content,
The game device according to claim 2 or 3.
Storage means;
When the provisional print content is determined, the reservation information to be printed is stored in the storage means, and the selection means accepts the selection to permit, and the print control means prints on the printed matter, and does not permit A processing means for processing the reservation information in each case when the selection means accepts the selection,
The game device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:
A computer that runs a game using printed materials
Accepting means for accepting payment of the value medium by the player;
Determining means for determining one temporary printing content from a plurality of temporary printing contents for printing on the printed matter when the receiving means accepts payment of the value medium;
Informing means for informing the player of the provisional printing content;
Selection means for accepting selection by a player as to whether or not to permit printing of the temporary print content on the printed matter;
When the selection means accepts the selection of permitting, the provisional print content is confirmed as the print content, the print content is printed on the printed matter, and the selection means accepts the selection of not permitting , Print control means for not printing on the printed matter,
Program to function as.