US 10,307,673 B2Granted

Network game system for executing event in network game

AssigneeSquare Enix Co., Ltd.

InventorsYoichi Kuroda, Ryoko Kato

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Abstract

A network game system includes a server apparatus and a plurality of video game apparatuses connected to the server apparatus. A party includes player characters of a plurality of players. When the party battles with an opponent character, the server apparatus simultaneously transmits movie playback information to each video game apparatus for starting playback of a movie. Each of the players can skip the movie at a desired timing. A screen is displayed on each video game apparatus that has skipped the movie until the battle starts. When information is received from each video game apparatus that indicates playback of the movie has ended, the server apparatus simultaneously transmits battle start information to each video game apparatus.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium including a program which is executable by a computer for causing the computer to perform operations including:

receiving, by a receiver, an input from a player who uses the computer;
communicating, by a transmitter, with other computers on a network;
displaying, on a display device included in the computer, when a predetermined event generation condition in a displayed game performed by the player of the computer and other players using the other computers is met, a movie, the movie being further displayed on the other computers when the predetermined event generation condition in the displayed game performed by the player of the computer and the other players using the other computers is met, termination of displays of the movie being enabled in accordance with the input from the player and inputs from the other players;
terminating, by a processor, a display of the movie on the display device in accordance with the input from the player;
executing, by the processor, a virtual character battle during the game after the displays of the movie are terminated in accordance with the input from the player and the inputs from the other players;
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displaying, on the display device included in the computer, an image which represents at least one of a display state of the displays of the movie in the other computers and the termination of the displays of the movie in the other computers before the virtual character battle.

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Facts

Application: 15/635,835Filed 28 Jun 2017 · continuation
Priority: JP 2010-2724407 Dec 2010
Published: US 2017/0296920 A119 Oct 2017
Granted: 4 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

A63F 13/493
Saving the game status; Pausing or ending the game: resuming a game, e.g. after pausing, malfunction or power failure
A63F 13/31
Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection…:…
A63F 13/335
Using wide area network [WAN] connections: using Internet
A63F 13/35
Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection…: details…

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Application13/298,589Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Nov 2011
Application14/582,632Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Dec 2014
US 8,944,919 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Feb 2015
US 2017/0296920 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Oct 2017
US 9,717,990 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0225717 A1Published application
US 2015/0119143 A1Published application
US 10,307,673 B2This patent

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