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US 9,308,458 B2Granted
Automatic movement of player character in network game
AssigneeSquare Enix Co., Ltd.
InventorsJin Fujisawa, Takashi Anzai, Yoichi Kuroda, Yoshitaka Katsume
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Abstract
A player participating in a network game moves a player character of the player by manipulating a video game apparatus of the player. As the player performs an autopilot operation, the video game apparatus moves the player character as an autopilot PC. A server apparatus manages the game which progresses according to the movement of each character, and transmits progress information of the game to the video game apparatus of each player participating in the network game. The movement of the autopilot PC is decided based on an action log recording the action of the player character responding to the manipulation of the player.
Claims16
A game system for progressing a game, the game system comprising
- a processor;
- and
- a memory including a set of executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including:
- progressing the in accordance with game progress information, the game progress information being useable for generating a game screen, the game screen configured to be displayed on a display device and including a player character that is in a virtual space;
- receiving a manual movement instruction for moving the player character on the game screen, the manual movement instruction being determined in accordance with an input of a player on an input device;
- updating the game progress information to move the player character on the game screen in accordance with the manual movement instruction;
- monitoring a progress of the game for an autopilot condition;
- determining an automatic movement instruction for automatically moving the player character on the game screen when the autopilot condition is monitored, the automatic movement instruction being determined without the input of the player on the input device;
- updating the game progress information to automatically move the player character on the game screen in accordance with the automatic movement instruction when the autopilot condition is monitored;
- and
- receiving an autopilot cancel operation for canceling the player character from an autopilot operation state when the player character is in the autopilot operation state, the autopilot operation state being a state in which the autopilot condition is monitored,
- wherein the autopilot cancel operation is received in response to a predetermined operation being input on the input device by the player,
- the automatic movement instruction includes at least one movement instruction that is associated with a battle that includes the player character, and
- the automatic movement instruction is determined based on a history of the manual movement instruction that is received in accordance with the input of the player on the input device.
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A game system for progressing a game, the game system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory including a set of executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including:
- progressing the game in accordance with game progress information, the game progress information being useable for generating a game screen, the game screen configured to be displayed on a display device and including a player character that is in a virtual space;
- receiving a manual movement instruction for moving the player character on the game screen, the manual movement instruction being determined in accordance with an input of a player on an input device;
- updating the game progress information to move the player character on the game screen in accordance with the manual movement instruction;
- monitoring a progress of the game for an autopilot condition;
- determining an automatic movement instruction for automatically moving the player character on the game screen when the autopilot condition is monitored, the automatic movement instruction being determined without the input of the player on the input device;
- updating the game progress information to automatically move the player character on the game screen in accordance with the automatic movement instruction when the autopilot condition is monitored;
- and
- receiving an autopilot cancel operation for canceling the player character from an autopilot operation state when the player character is in the autopilot operation state, the autopilot operation state being a state in which the autopilot condition is monitored,
- wherein the autopilot cancel operation is received in response to a predetermined operation being input on the input device by the player, and
- the player character is differently displayed on the display screen when the player character is in the autopilot operation state than when the player character is in a manual operation state, the manual operation state being a state in which the autopilot condition is not monitored.
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A game system for progressing a game, the game system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory including a set of executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including:
- progressing the game in accordance with game progress information, the game progress information being useable for generating a game screen, the game screen configured to be displayed on a display device and including a player character that is in a virtual space;
- receiving a manual movement instruction for moving the player character on the game screen, the manual movement instruction being determined in accordance with an input of a player on an input device;
- updating the game progress information to move the player character on the game screen in accordance with the manual movement instruction;
- monitoring a progress of the game for an autopilot condition;
- determining an automatic movement instruction for automatically moving the player character on the game screen when the autopilot condition is monitored, the automatic movement instruction being determined without the input of the player on the input device;
- updating the game progress information to automatically move the player character on the game screen in accordance with the automatic movement instruction when the autopilot condition is monitored;
- and
- receiving an autopilot cancel operation for canceling the player character from an autopilot operation state when the player character is in the autopilot operation state, the autopilot operation state being a state in which the autopilot condition is monitored,
- wherein the autopilot cancel operation is received in response to a predetermined operation being input on the input device by the player, and
- the player character is configured to automatically exit the autopilot operation state after being in the autopilot operation state for a predetermined period of time.
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