Program for controlling the movement of group of characters, recorded medium, and game device thereof

a technology recording media, which is applied in the field of program for controlling the movement of a group of characters, recording media, and game devices thereof, and can solve the problems of difficult to grasp the dispersed characters, the dispersion of the character while moving and the non-display of the whole group, and the difficulty of external operation of the group
US20060246974A1Inactive Publication Date: 2006-11-02KOEI CO LTD
16 Cites 18 Cited by

Patent Information

Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
KOEI CO LTD
Publication Date
2006-11-02
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

Smart Images

  • Figure 1
    Figure 1
  • Figure 2
    Figure 2
  • Figure 3
    Figure 3
Patent Text Reader

Abstract

In a program for controlling group of characters, a recorded medium, and a game device thereof, one can enjoy complex lively movement or fighting of the group by a self-explanatory operation, which is expressed more realistically. The present program provides a program for controlling video games, and controlling the movement of a character group to permit a computer to function to accomplish: a group movement function to move a leader-including group of which a leader character is added to an agent group comprising a plurality of agent characters in a 3-dimensional virtual space based on input information from an input device; a friendly agent group following function to permit the friendly agent groups other than the leader-including group to follow the moving leader-including group; and a group display function to display the leader-including group and the friendly agent group on a display device.
Need to check novelty before this filing date? Find Prior Art

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] This invention relates to programs for controlling a group of characters, a recorded medium, and a game device thereof, and more particularly to a program for controlling the group of characters, recorded medium, and game device thereof wherein a player can directly operate the group (troop) of the characters in a 3-dimensional virtual space and wherein the movement and the battle of the group are shown with reality. BACKGROUND ART

[0002] In video games for home usage, there are some programs wherein the player controls, for moving in the 3-dimensional virtual space, both a leader character and an agent group (such as a troop, party, and platoon) comprising agent characters who follow the leader.

[0003] Conventionally, there is disclosed a program for controlling the movement of the character group, wherein each character is moved to a target site at a total acceleration in combination of, for each X-Y-Z component in 3-dimensional virtual space, an acce...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More