Method and apparatus for providing online shooting game

An online shooting game providing system including a player terminal, a game server communicatively connected to the player terminal, and a database connected to the game server, the server comprising:

• circuitry configured to
• display a plurality of candidate basic identification ranges having different fixed areas, respectively, in an overlapping manner;
• set a basic identification range within a screen of the player terminal, on which a virtual online shooting game environment is displayed, by selecting one of the plurality of candidate basic identification ranges according to a setting on the player terminal;
• move the set basic identification range within the screen of the player terminal, on which the virtual online shooting game environment is displayed in response to a manipulation input from the player terminal;
• allow an aiming point to track an enemy character that is within the set basic identification range while changing a color of the aiming point based on a location relationship between the aiming point and the enemy character;
• and
• determine, when an attack input is received from the player terminal, a damage inflicted on the enemy character based on at least a relative location of the aiming point with respect to the enemy character within the basic identification range wherein a level of a player is designated in the online shooting game, and
• wherein an area of the set basic identification range is determined based on the level of the player.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording one or more instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method of providing an online shooting game, the method comprising:

• displaying a plurality of candidate basic identification ranges having different fixed areas, respectively, in an overlapping manner;
• setting a basic identification range within a screen of a player terminal, on which a virtual online shooting game environment is displayed, by selecting one of the plurality of candidate basic identification ranges according to a setting on the player terminal;
• moving the set basic identification range within the screen of the player terminal, on which the virtual online shooting game environment is displayed in response to a manipulation input from the player terminal;
• allowing an aiming point to track an enemy character that is within the set basic identification range while changing a color of the aiming point based on a location relationship between the aiming point and the enemy character;
• and
• determining, when an attack input is received from the player terminal, a damage inflicted on the enemy character based on at least a relative location of the aiming point with respect to the enemy character within the basic identification range,
• a level of a player being designated in the online shooting game, and
• an area of the set basic identification range being determined based on the level of the player.