Dynamic Life Point Meter for Multi-Character Video Game Teams
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video games that feature multiple player characters in tag-team matches often limit player control to a single character, making it difficult for a single player to manage and strategize the team effectively, and lack clear displays of life points, reducing player engagement and interest.
Innovation Solution
A video game processing apparatus and method that displays total remaining life points for multiple player characters on a single screen, with dynamic meter displays showing changes in life points, allowing players to easily track each character's status and maintain strategic control during battles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single player operates multiple player characters in tag-team matches, then the player can control multiple characters, but it becomes difficult to manage and strategize the team effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays a shared life point meter that provides visual feedback on the total remaining life points of all player characters. This feedback mechanism allows the player to easily monitor the status of multiple characters without complex interfaces, enabling effective team management and strategic decision-making while controlling multiple characters.
2Measurement precision
If life points of multiple player characters are displayed separately, then each character's status is clear, but the player cannot easily grasp the overall team status
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the life point displays of multiple player characters into a single shared life point meter. This meter shows the total remaining life points by summing up the life points of all player characters, allowing the player to easily grasp the overall team status while still understanding individual character contributions to the total.
3Device complexity
If conventional life point display is used where one character becomes battle impossible when life point reaches zero, then the game rules are simple, but player interest decreases as one character cannot participate temporarily
Solution Approach 1:
The shared life point meter provides continuous visual feedback on the total team life points. When one character's life point reaches zero, the meter updates to reflect the remaining life points of other characters, allowing the game to continue with the tag-team mechanic. This feedback mechanism maintains player interest by showing that the team can still fight as long as total life points remain above zero.
Data Source
AI summary
An image display apparatus is caused to display a life point meter for showing a total remaining life point within a life point display region on an image display screen. When an action or event occurs to any player character so that the remaining life point thereof changes, an amount of change of a life point thereof is calculated in response to the action or the event. It is determined that the battle possible state of all player characters can be maintained except that the amount of decrease of the life point is the total remaining life point or more. In the case where the remaining life point of the corresponding player character is updated on the basis of the calculated amount of change of the life point, the image display apparatus is caused to change a display form of the life point meter assigned to the corresponding player character.