Directional Navigation Icons for Virtual Game Task Prompting
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual game applications, players face inefficiencies in completing interactive tasks due to the need to constantly search and move blindly within the game scene, leading to poor game interactivity and prolonged playtime, which wastes resources and affects battery life.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that display a virtual game scene with directional navigation icons in a task prompting area, based on relative position relationships between a target virtual character and task locations, allowing players to navigate tasks more efficiently without continuous searching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If players control virtual characters to search for tasks by blind movement in the virtual game scene, then players can complete interactive tasks, but the playtime is lengthened and game interactivity is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces directional navigation icons as an intermediary element between the player and the task locations. These icons provide directional guidance to players, eliminating the need for blind movement and search, thus resolving the contradiction between task completion and time consumption
Solution Approach 2:
The patent displays directional navigation icons in advance before players reach the task locations. This preliminary action of providing navigation information allows players to plan their movement efficiently, reducing unnecessary searching and extending playtime
2Productivity
If players control virtual characters to constantly move and search for task positions, then players can find and complete tasks, but the power resource of the terminal is wasted and battery life is affected
Solution Approach 1:
The directional navigation icons serve as an intermediary that provides navigation guidance, eliminating the need for constant movement and search. This reduces the activation and processing operations required, thereby lowering power resource consumption and preserving battery life
3Ease of operation
If only description information of tasks is provided without visual guidance, then the game interface remains simple, but players need to blindly move and search resulting in poor game interactivity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enhances specific localized areas of the interface by displaying directional navigation icons at relevant positions. This local enhancement provides visual guidance without overwhelming the entire interface, maintaining simplicity while improving ease of operation and game interactivity
Data Source
AI summary
A method including displaying a virtual game scene in which a target virtual character in a virtual game is located in a display interface and in which target locations in the virtual game are set, determining relative position relationships between a character position of the target virtual character and target locations, and displaying, in a task prompting area at prompting positions corresponding to the relative position relationships, directional navigation icons corresponding to the target locations.