Card game apparatus and software program
AssigneeSega Sammy Creation Inc.
InventorsYuichi Takasaki, Masato Ito
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Abstract
There are provided a squeeze image generating portion generating a squeeze image showing a squeeze motion of a card being turned over from an end, from a back surface to a front surface; and a game controlling portion controlling progress of a card game on the basis of a score recorded on a front surface of the card. By discontinuing the squeeze motion at branching timings at which a score predicted by a part of one or more suits appearing according to progress of the squeeze motion changes, it becomes possible to discontinue the squeeze motion at an appropriate timing according to a progress state of the card game, and it is possible to provide a realistic game environment close to a real card game and save time taken for useless squeeze motions.
Claims7
A card game apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- generate a squeeze image to show on a display a squeeze motion of a card being turned over from an end, from a back surface to a front surface,
- control progress of a card game, including determining, for at least one of a plurality of branching timings, a predicted score using a part of one or more suits on the card that appear during the squeeze motion,
- determine whether or not the squeeze motion is at one of the plurality of branching timings at which the predicted score changes, and
- automatically discontinue the squeeze motion based on the predicted score;
- and
- a display controller configured to output the squeeze image to a display.
A game image generating method comprising the steps of:
- generating, by a processor, a squeeze image to show on a display a squeeze motion of a card being turned over from an end, from a back surface to a front surface;
- controlling, by the processor, progress of a card game;
- determining, by the processor and for at least one of a plurality of branching timings, a predicted score using a part of one or more suits on the card that appear during the squeeze motion;
- determining, by the processor, whether or not the squeeze motion is at one of the plurality of branching timings at which the predicted score changes;
- automatically discontinuing, by the processor, the squeeze motion based on the predicted score;
- and
- displaying, on the display by a display controller, the squeeze image generated by the processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.