US 11,890,532 B2Granted

Shooting game control method and game system

AssigneeGREE, Inc.

InventorsYuichi Tsuchiya, Norihiro Sawada, Tadashi Nagano, Takeshi Arakawa

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Abstract

A shooting game control method, which is executed by a computer incorporated in a device including a display and a touch panel, includes accepting a touch operation on the touch panel; displaying a first frame indicative of a shooting effective range on the display in accordance with a position of the touch operation; accepting an instruction for an attack on an attack target in a state in which the first frame is displayed; determining whether the attack target in a game image displayed on the display is within the first frame or not, at a time point when the instruction for the attack has been accepted; and controlling the attack on the attack target in the game image in accordance with a result of the determining.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A game control method executed by an apparatus comprising circuitry and a display device, the game control method comprising:

in response to a first operation from a user on the display device, causing, using the circuitry, a shooting area and a cross hair to be displayed on the display device, the cross hair being positioned inside the shooting area;
in response to a second operation from the user on the display device, determining, using the circuitry, whether a target exists within a shooting effective range, the shooting effective range being an area inside the shooting area;
and
in response to determining that the target exists within the shooting effective range, performing, using the circuitry, an auto-aiming process to position the cross hair at a position of the target within the shooting effective range, wherein
when the position of the target within the shooting effective range is off-center from a center of the shooting effective range, the auto-aiming process includes moving the cross hair to be off-center at the position of the target within the shooting effective range.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/686,377Filed 3 Mar 2022 · continuation
Priority: JP 2013-03555526 Feb 2013
Published: US 2022/0184490 A116 Jun 2022
Granted: 6 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A63F 13/2145
For locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads: the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
A63F 13/426
By mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual…:…
A63F 13/837
Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode: shooting of targets
A63F
Card, board, or roulette games

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