Game device, golf game device shot result decision method
AssigneeKonami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoji Okamoto, Hachitaro Sato
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Abstract
A game apparatus is provided that can reduce the number of times that a player of the game has to performs unnecessary manual operations. A shot direction and a golf club determined by automatic determination means 53 can be modified by manual modification means 55. Shot position determination means 51 determines whether or not a shot motion should be made at the same position continuously twice. When the shot position determination means 51 determines that the shot motion was the second shot made at the same position, the automatic determination means 53 determines the shot direction and club, which has been stored in memory means 57 at the time of a previous play, as a shot direction and a club for a next play.
Claims9
A game apparatus for playing a game that includes a control unit for carrying on the game by moving a movable object displayed on a screen based on an input from an input device operated by a game player, the control unit comprising:
- determination means for determining, based on the input, whether an arrival point that the movable object has reached is in a target area or is out of the target area;
- automatic determination means for automatically determining settings for carrying on the game at least including a moving direction of the movable object before the input has been made;
- manual modification means for allowing the settings for carrying on the game automatically determined by the automatic determination means to be modified manually;
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- memory means for storing the settings for carrying on the game;
- wherein the automatic determination means determines that the settings for carrying on the game for a previous play which have been stored in the memory means should be used as the settings for carrying on the game for a next play when the determination means determines that the arrival point determined for the previous play is out of the target area and that for the next play the movable object has to be moved from the same point as that for the previous play.
A game apparatus for playing a game, which carries on the game by moving a movable object displayed on a screen based on an input from an input device operated by a game player, the game apparatus comprising:
- determination means for determining, based on the input, whether an arrival point that the movable object has reached is in a target area or is out of the target area,
- automatic determination means for automatically determining settings for carrying on the game at least including a moving direction of the movable object before the input has been made,
- manual modification means for allowing the settings for carrying on the game automatically determined by the automatic determination means to be modified manually, and
- memory means for storing the settings for carrying on the game,
- wherein the automatic determination means determines the settings for carrying on the game for a previous play which have been stored in the memory means should be used as the settings for carrying on the game for a next play when the determination means determines that the arrival point determined for the previous play is out of the target area and that for the next play the movable object has to be moved from the same point as that for the previous play.
A shot result determination method for a golf game apparatus, which automatically determines an optimal club according to a shot direction toward a hole and a distance to the hole, allows the automatically determined shot direction and the club to be modified manually, and determines a shot result for each shot based on a shot motion inputted from an input device and the shot direction and the club determined automatically or manually, the method comprising the steps of:
- storing the shot direction and the club at the time that the previous shot motion was made, and determining automatically the shot direction and the club stored at the time of the previous play as a shot direction and a club for a next play when a subsequent shot motion should be made at the same position as that for the previous play.
A program for a golf game apparatus that determines a shot result, the program causing a computer to execute:
- a function of automatically determining an optimal club according to a shot direction toward a hole and a distance to the hole;
- a function of allowing the automatically determined shot direction and the club to be modified manually;
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- a function of determining a shot result for each shot based on a shot motion inputted from an input device and the shot direction and the club determined automatically or manually,
- the program further causing the computer to execute:
- a function of storing the shot direction and the club at the time that the previous shot motion was made, and
- a function of determining automatically the shot direction and the club stored at the time of the previous play as a shot direction and a club for a next play when a subsequent shot motion should be made at the same position as that for the previous play.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.