Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored therein, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11285394-B1
Application number	US-202117330415-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	May 26, 2021
Priority date	Feb 16, 2021
Publication date	Mar 29, 2022
Grant date	Mar 29, 2022

Abstract

In an exemplary embodiment, a player object is caused to perform a posturing action of holding an item object in an input direction of a first direction input. When a second direction input is performed during the posturing action, a first swinging action of swinging the item object in the direction is performed. Further, when a going-way direction input in which a displacement amount with respect to the origin of an operation device and not greater than a first value exceeds the first value, and a return-way direction input in which the displacement amount becomes not greater than a second value after the going-way direction input have been performed within a first time, a second swinging action of swinging the item object in at least one of the going-way direction and the return-way direction is performed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a processor of an information processing system, cause the processor to:
control, in a virtual space, a player object having an item object;
cause, on the basis of a fact that a first direction input has been performed on an operation device, the player object to perform a posturing action of holding the item object in an orientation corresponding to a first input direction according to the first direction input;
in a case where the player object is performing the posturing action, cause, on the basis of a fact that a second direction input has been performed on the operation device, the player object to perform a first swinging action of swinging the item object in an orientation corresponding to a second input direction according to the second direction input; and
on the basis of a fact that a going-way direction input in which a displacement amount with respect to an origin in an input on the operation device and in a state of being not greater than a first value enters a state of exceeding at least the first value, and a return-way direction input in which the displacement amount enters a state of being not greater than a second value after the going-way direction input have been performed within a first time on the operation device, cause the player object to perform a second swinging action of swinging the item object in an orientation based on at least one of a going-way input direction according to the going-way direction input and a return-way input direction according to the return-way direction input.

2. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the instructions cause the processor to cause the player object to perform the second swinging action on the basis of a fact that the going-way direction input in which the displacement amount in the state of being not greater than the first value increases to be not less than a third value, which is greater than the first value, and the return-way direction input have been performed within the first time.

3. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the instructions cause the processor to cause, in a case where the player object is performing the posturing action, the player object to perform the first swinging action on the basis of a fact that, as the second direction input, a direction input in which the displacement amount being not less than a fourth value becomes less than the fourth value and then becomes not less than a fifth value has been performed.

4. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the first input direction and the second input direction are directions that are opposite to each other with respect to the origin.

5. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
in a state where no input is performed on the operation device by a user, the displacement amount becomes not greater than a predetermined value, or the displacement amount is gradually reduced so as to be not greater than the predetermined value after a lapse of a predetermined time.

6. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the operation device includes a stick device and outputs input direction data corresponding to a tilt of the stick device.

7. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
in a case where a positional relationship between coordinates indicated by temporally-consecutive two pieces of input data acquired from the operation device is a positional relationship in which an origin region whose center is the origin is between the coordinates, the instructions further cause the processor to determine that an input onto the origin region has been performed.

8. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
in a case where an angle difference between the going-way input direction and the return-way input direction is in a predetermined range, the instructions cause the processor to cause the player object to perform the second swinging action.

9. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the instructions cause the processor to cause the player object to perform the second swinging action, on the basis of a fact that the going-way direction input in which, after the state of the displacement amount being not greater than the first value has continued for not less than a predetermined time, the displacement amount increases to exceed the first value, and then, further the return-way direction input in which the displacement amount decreases to be not greater than the second value have been performed within the first time.

10. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the instructions cause the processor to cause the player object to perform the second swinging action, further on a condition that a total distance of trajectories of input coordinates in an immediately preceding predetermined time is not greater than a certain value.

11. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the instructions further cause the processor to cause the player object to perform a third swinging action of swinging the item object, in accordance with cancelation of the first direction input.

12. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
in a case where the player object is performing the posturing action in a state of the displacement amount being not less than a sixth value, when the second direction input in which the displacement amount in a state of being not less than the sixth value enters a state of being less than the sixth value, and then enters a state of being not less than a seventh value, and after the second direction input, a third direction input in which the displacement amount enters a state of being less than the seventh value and then returns to the state of being not less than the sixth value have been performed within a predetermined time on the operation device, the instructions further cause the processor to cause the player object to perform a fourth swinging action of swinging the item object by rotating about an axis orthogonal to a direction, in the virtual space, that corresponds to a direction according to the second or third direction inputs.

13. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the operation device further includes an inertial sensor, and
the instructions further cause the processor to:
in a first operation mode, cause the player object to perform the posturing action and the first swinging action on the basis of a fact that the first direction input and the second direction input have been performed; and
in a second operation mode,
cause the player object to perform the posturing action on the basis of an orientation of the operation device, and
cause the player object to perform at least one of the first swinging action and the second swinging action on the basis of a swing input performed on the operation device.

14. The storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the item object is a weapon object for attacking an enemy object by the first swinging action or the second swinging action.

15. A game apparatus comprising at least one processor, the processor being configured to:
control, in a virtual space, a player object having an item object;
cause, on the basis of data indicating a first direction input which has been performed on and outputted from an operation device capable of providing a direction input, the player object to perform a posturing action of holding the item object in an orientation corresponding to an input direction according to the first direction input;
in a case where the player object

Assignees

• Nintendo Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamada Yoshimitsu
• Dohta Takuhiro

Classifications

• A63F13/833

  Hand-to-hand fighting, e.g. martial arts competition · CPC title

• A63F13/56 Primary

  Computing the motion of game characters with respect to other game characters, game objects or elements of the game scene, e.g. for simulating the behaviour of a group of virtual soldiers or for path finding · CPC title

• A63F13/42

  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 vehicle · CPC title

• A63F2300/6607

  for animating game characters, e.g. skeleton kinematics · CPC title

• A63F13/57 Primary

  Simulating properties, behaviour or motion of objects in the game world, e.g. computing tyre load in a car race game (A63F13/56 takes precedence) · CPC title