Game program and game system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10675539-B2
Application number	US-201615089974-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2016
Priority date	Oct 14, 2015
Publication date	Jun 9, 2020
Grant date	Jun 9, 2020

Abstract

There is provided a game program causing a computer to realize a function of controlling progress of a game by imaging, with a virtual camera, a three-dimensional game space in which a plurality of objects including a player object are disposed, and displaying the game space on a display unit as a game image, the program causing the computer to execute a mode setting function of setting a display mode of a game image displayed on the display unit out of at least a normal mode and a scenery mode according to a predetermined condition, an imaging function of causing the virtual camera to perform imaging at a plurality of imaging positions in the game space in a case where the display mode is the scenery mode, and a display control function of displaying a game image captured by the virtual camera on the display unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a game program for causing a computer to realize a function of controlling progress of a game by imaging, with a virtual camera, a three-dimensional game space in which a plurality of objects including a player object controlled by a user are disposed, and displaying the game space on a display as a game image, the game program causing the computer to execute:
setting a status of the player object to a seat-leaving status in which the user does not play a game based on a presence or an absence of an operation by the user;
setting a display mode of a game image displayed on the display out of at least a normal mode and a scenery mode according to a predetermined condition, the predetermined condition for setting the display mode to the scenery mode including a case where the status of the player object is the seat-leaving status;
causing the virtual camera which is disposed based on a position of the player object, to perform first imaging in a case where the display mode is the normal mode, and causing the virtual camera to perform second imaging at a plurality of imaging positions in the game space in a case where the display mode is the scenery mode; and
displaying a game image captured by the virtual camera on the display in the case where the display mode is the normal mode, and displaying game images captured at the plurality of imaging positions in a predetermined display embodiment in the case where the display mode is the scenery mode,
wherein the game images captured at the plurality of imaging positions are displayed on the display in a predetermined order as the predetermined display embodiment, and
a first game image captured at a certain imaging position is displayed on the display for a predetermined time period, and then a second game image captured at a next imaging position is displayed according to the predetermined order on the display.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the second imaging, the plurality of imaging positions is determined based on positions of at least some of the plurality of objects.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 2 , wherein the second imaging includes:
setting at least some of the plurality of objects as subject objects imaged by the virtual camera, and determining the plurality of imaging positions based on positions of the subject objects, and
determining directions of the virtual camera at the plurality of imaging positions based on the positions of the subject objects.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the second imaging, the virtual camera moves to the plurality of imaging positions in the predetermined order, and
the game images are displayed on the display in an imaging order, the imaging order being the predetermined order.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein the second imaging includes:
disposing a plurality of the virtual cameras at the plurality of preset imaging positions, respectively, and causing one of the plurality of the virtual cameras selected in the predetermined order to perform imaging while moving toward a position where another one of the plurality of the virtual cameras to be selected next is disposed; and
selecting a single movement pattern corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of the virtual cameras from among a plurality of movement patterns, and
the game image captured by the selected one of the plurality of the virtual cameras is displayed on the display.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the second imaging, the predetermined order is randomly selected from among a plurality of predetermined orders.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the displaying, a game image obtained at a present imaging position is continuously displayed on the display based on an operation of stopping transition in the predetermined order by the user, in a case where the game images captured at the plurality of imaging positions are displayed on the display in the predetermined order.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the displaying, a game image obtained at a next imaging position from a present imaging position is started to be displayed on the display according to the predetermined order based on an operation of executing transition in the predetermined order by the user, in a case where the game images captured at the plurality of imaging positions are displayed on the display in the predetermined order.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 2 , wherein at least some of the plurality of objects are located within a range of a predetermined distance from the player object.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein the second imaging includes:
setting a single object which is selected from among the plurality of objects based on an object selection operation performed by the user, as a subject object captured by the virtual camera, and determining the plurality of imaging positions based on a position of the subject object; and
determining directions of the virtual camera at the plurality of imaging positions based on the position of the subject object.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein the second imaging includes:
selecting a single movement pattern from among a plurality of preset movement patterns;
selecting a single object from among at least some of the plurality of objects in a predetermined order, and setting the single selected object as a subject object captured by the virtual camera; and
causing the virtual camera to perform imaging of the subject object while moving the virtual camera based on a position of the subject object and the single selected movement pattern.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined condition for setting the display mode to the normal mode includes a case where the player object is passively moved during the scenery mode.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined condition for setting the display mode to the normal mode includes a case where the status of the player object is a predetermined status during the scenery mode.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the second imaging, a plurality of points of gaze is determined based on positions of the plurality of objects disposed in the game space, and the plurality of imaging positions is determined based on each of the plurality of points of gaze.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 , wherein, in the scenery mode, the game program causes the computer to repeatedly perform a process, the process including:
selecting a single imaging position from among the plurality of imaging positions; and
causing the virtual camera to capture an image at the single imaging position for a predetermined time period, and
the process, in the selecting, selects a new imaging position after the predetermined time period elapses.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second imaging includes:
setting the player object as a subject object captured by the virtual camera, and determining the plurality of imaging positions based on a position

Assignees

• Square Enix Co Ltd

Inventors

• Odagiri Kei
• Ohno Hiroaki

Classifications

• A63F13/30

  Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers · CPC title

• H04N5/232

  Electricity · mapped topic

• A63F13/25 Primary

  Output arrangements for video game devices · CPC title

• A63F13/525 Primary

  Changing parameters of virtual cameras · CPC title

• H04N23/63

  by using electronic viewfinders · CPC title