US 2011/0300931 A1Published application

Storage medium having game program stored therein, hand-held game apparatus, game system, and game method

AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.

InventorShinji KITAHARA

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Abstract

An information processing section of a game apparatus executes a program including: a step of setting a puzzle area to be cut from an image taken by an outer camera; a step of setting the division number representing the number of portions into which the puzzle area is divided in accordance with a stage; a step of generating one-dimensional arrangement data representing a state in which puzzle pieces are positioned at random: a step of executing a game process by updating the one-dimensional arrangement data of the puzzle pieces which are selected based on a tilt of the game apparatus; and a step of switching, in accordance with the one-dimensional arrangement data, texture coordinate data of the puzzle pieces calculated based on a tilt of a virtual camera, and displaying an obtained image.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program executed by a computer of a hand-held game apparatus including an imaging device and a display device, the game program causing the computer to function as:

acquisition means for sequentially acquiring taken-image data representing a taken-image which is taken by the imaging device;
image division means for dividing, into a plurality of small areas, an image of a predetermined area in the taken-image represented by the taken-image data acquired by the acquisition means;
positioning means for positioning, in the predetermined area, the plurality of small areas into which the image of the predetermined area is divided by the image division means, so as to form an image different from the taken-image which is taken by the imaging device;
retaining means for retaining a positioning state in which the plurality of small areas are positioned, by using, as an initial value, a positioning state obtained by the positioning means;
image update means for sequentially updating, by using the taken-image data having been sequentially acquired, images to be displayed on the plurality of small areas, respectively, of which the positioning state is retained by the retaining means;
display control means for causing the display device to display images updated by the image update means;
change means for changing the positioning state of the plurality of small areas, which is retained by the retaining means, in accordance with an operation performed by a user viewing the images displayed by the display device;
determination means for determining whether or not the positioning state of the plurality of small areas, which is changed by the change means, satisfies a predetermined condition;
and
game process means for performing a predetermined game process in accordance with a result of a determination made by the determination means.

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Facts

Application: 12/868,905Filed 26 Aug 2010
Priority: JP 2010-1270922 Jun 2010
Published: 8 Dec 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

A63F 13/655
Automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition: by importing photos, e.g. of the player
A63F 13/213
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells
A63F 13/42
Processing input control signals of video game devices, e.g. signals generated by the player or derived from the environment: by mapping the input…
A63F 13/428
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…:…