Control input device and game system
AssigneeNamco Ltd.
InventorsTakeyasu Yamamoto, Masaki Uchida
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Abstract
A game system allows a player to move a character within a game space while the player manipulates a shooting device. The game system comprises a mobile mount that can be moved at least in the forward and backward, and rightward and leftward directions, and a gun rotatably mounted on the mount. The game system is responsive to the movement of the mobile mount for moving a character object in the forward and backward, and rightward and leftward directions within the game space, changing the facing direction of the character object depending on the rotational movement of the gun, and displaying a game image representing these actions on a display.
Claims19
A control input device for simulating shooting comprising:
- a shooting input section disposed opposite to an image display section;
- a moving section arranged to provide two dimensional movement, in all directions within only a single plane, of the shooting input section relative to the image display section;
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- a detecting section arranged to detect an amount of two dimensional movement of the shooting input section relative to the image display section.
A game system comprising:
- input means for moving a character, the input means being movable in at least both of a first linear direction and a second linear direction within only a single plane, the second linear direction being perpendicular to the first linear direction;
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- processor means for computing and displaying, via a display means, a game image in which at least one of the character and a virtual camera is movable within a game space in a combined direction of the first and second directions, based on an input signal from the input means corresponding to an amount of movement of the input means in the first linear direction and in the second linear direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.