Game apparatus, game message displaying method and storage medium storing game program
AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.
InventorsKenshiro Ueda, Kenichi Nishi
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Abstract
A game apparatus includes a CPU, and in the game apparatus, letters are displayed as visual support for a sound generated by a message generating object. When a game message is displayed, a distance between the message generating object and a player object is calculated. Then, a form of the letters to be displayed on a billboard is changed depending upon the calculated distance. The form to be changed is, for example, transparency and a size of the letters. Thus, a game image in which the form of the letters is changed depending upon the distance between the player object and the message generating object is displayed.
Claims20
A game apparatus which displays letters, representative of a sound generated by a speech generating object, using a virtual billboard, comprising:
- a distance calculator to calculate a distance between said speech generating object and a player object;
- and
- form changing programmed logic circuitry to change a form of said letters to be displayed on said billboard depending upon said distance calculated by said distance calculator such that said letters are illegible at or beyond a predetermined distance threshold and the letters approach legibility as the distance is decreased from the predetermined distance threshold.
A game message displaying method in a game apparatus which displays letters, representative of a sound generated by a speech generating object, using a virtual billboard, said method comprising the steps of:
- calculating a distance between said speech generating object and a player object;
- and
- changing a form of said letters to be displayed on said billboard depending upon said distance calculated, such that said letters are illegible at or beyond a predetermined distance threshold and the letters approach legibility as the distance is decreased from the predetermined distance threshold.
An electronic storage medium storing a program executable on a computer to display a game message in a game apparatus which displays letters, representative of a sound generated by a speech generating object, using a virtual billboard, said program causing a processor of said game apparatus to execute the steps of:
- calculating a distance between said speech generating object and a player object;
- and
- changing a form of said letters to be displayed on said billboard depending upon said distance calculated such that said letters are illegible at or beyond a predetermined distance threshold and the letters approach legibility as the distance is decreased from the predetermined distance threshold.
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