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Game system, server, game-system control method, server control method, and storage medium

a game system and server technology, applied in the field of game systems, servers, gamesystem control methods, server control methods, storage media, can solve the problems that users cannot make the nurtured character and users cannot make such game elements appear in the game machine with the use of the user terminal

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-05-02
KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO LTD
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Benefits of technology

The present invention relates to a game system that allows a user to select a game arcade and add game elements to the game through a user terminal. The user terminal sends a request to a server to send game arcade information and receives the information in response. The user terminal also sends an addition request to the server with the selected game arcade information and the game element to be added. The server generates the game arcade information and sends it back to the user terminal. This allows for the user to add game elements to the game executed in a game machine installed at the selected game arcade. The game system includes a server and game machines installed at multiple game arcades.

Problems solved by technology

The user cannot make the nurtured character appear in a game machine installed in a game arcade at which the user is not present.
The user, however, cannot make such game elements appear in the game machines with the use of the user terminal, such as a mobile terminal or a personal computer.

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1. First Embodiment

[0043]FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a game system 1A according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The game system 1A includes a plurality of game machines 10A, a plurality of user terminals 20, and a server 30. The game machines 10A are installed in amusement facilities (game arcades), and include token-operated game machines, for example.

[0044]The user terminals 20 have a communication function and can be any apparatuses so long as the users can play games with them. The user terminals 20 include mobile terminals and personal computers, for example.

[0045]The server 30 is connected to each of the game machines 10A and each of the user terminals 20 through a communication network NET, such as the Internet.

[0046]In each of the game machines 10A according to the present embodiment, a player thereof manipulates a main character to search a plurality of dungeons in a role-playing game. A dungeon is a game stage, and one gam...

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2. Second Embodiment

[0087]Next, a game system 1B according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the game system 1B. The game system 1B has the same configuration as the game system 1A of the first embodiment, shown in FIG. 1, except that game machines 10B are used instead of the game machines 10A and that a monster to be added is managed also by the game machines 10B in addition to the server 30. In particular, in the game system 1B, the addition table TBL 2 of the server 30 stores player IDs, addition information, selected game arcade information, and battle results in association with each other but does not store management information, whereas, in the game system 1A, the addition table TBL 2 of the server 30 stores player IDs, addition information, selected game arcade information, management information, and battle results in association with each other. Each of the game machines 10B includes a control unit 18 for contr...

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Abstract

A user terminal can receive game arcade information corresponding to the user of the user terminal from a server as a game arcade information acknowledgement. The user can select therefrom to specify a game arcade where a game machine in which a game element is made to appear is installed. The server stores addition information in association with selected game arcade information. When the server receives, from a game machine, a check request asking whether addition information is provided, the server determines whether the game machine is a game machine installed at the selected game arcade. When the game machine is a game machine installed at the selected game arcade, the server sends back a check acknowledgement to the game machine.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to game systems, servers, game-system control methods, server control methods, and storage media.[0003]2. Related Art[0004]Role-playing games played with user terminals such as mobile terminals have been known (see Non-Patent Document 1, for example). In role-playing games, users nurture characters such as monsters. Other role playing games in which players enjoy nurturing characters have been known also in game machines installed in game arcades such as amusement facilities. In addition, a technology has been known in which a user of a user terminal goes to a game arcade where a game machine is installed and makes a character nurtured in a game played with the user terminal appear in the game machine to further nurture the character in the game machine (disclosed in Patent Document 1).[0005]Patent Document 1: Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2002-035428[0006]Non-Paten...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24A63F13/35A63F13/45A63F13/33A63F13/69A63F13/79A63F13/85
CPCA63F13/10A63F13/12A63F2300/403A63F2300/554A63F2300/5553A63F2300/556G07F17/3295A63F2300/5573A63F2300/65A63F2300/8058G07F17/3227G07F17/3241A63F2300/5566A63F13/352A63F13/77A63F13/58A63F13/323A63F13/73A63F13/822A63F13/795A63F13/792A63F13/493G07F17/32
Inventor UCHIYAMA, TAKASHIAZUMA, SHOGOTAMURA, YOSHITAKAYAMAGUCHI, HIROKATSUOCHIAI, NIMIKOSOTOME, HANAKOMITO, AKIHIRO
Owner KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO LTD