Game Operation Model Video for Input Learning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in understanding the operation methods of advanced game input apparatuses with motion sensors and touch panels, as the complexity of game operations and diverse input methods require learning specific actions for each scene and controller configuration.
Innovation Solution
A game program that outputs an operation model video, showing a model of the input apparatus's operation, along with a video related to the game content, to help users learn how to operate the input apparatus effectively by demonstrating actual operations and animations side by side, allowing intuitive understanding of the relationship between operations and game actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If input apparatus with motion sensor and touch panel are used to improve game functionality, then game versatility is improved, but operation complexity increases making it difficult for users to understand operation methods
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays operation model videos before the user needs to perform operations. These videos show model players demonstrating the required input apparatus operations in advance, allowing users to learn and understand operation methods before actually playing the game, thus resolving the contradiction between versatile functionality and ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If game content complexity increases due to improved processing performance, then game versatility is improved, but the difficulty of understanding operation methods increases
Solution Approach 1:
The operation model video serves as an intermediary between the complex game system and the user. It translates complex operation requirements into visual demonstrations that show model players performing operations, making the relationship between input apparatus operations and game content transitions understandable even as game complexity increases.
3Loss of information
If alternating display of two images is used to show input apparatus states, then information display is improved, but the user cannot get a feeling of specific operation continuity
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static alternating display of two images to a dynamic operation model video that continuously shows model players performing operations. This dynamic video presentation maintains complete scene information while providing temporal continuity, allowing users to feel the flow and sequence of operations rather than seeing disconnected static states.
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AI summary
A technique for allowing a user to easily understand an operation method of an input apparatus is disclosed. An example of non-transitory storage medium having a game program stored therein is performed by a computer of an information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus is connected to a display apparatus and an input apparatus and performs game processing on the basis of an operation performed by a user. When the game processing is in a predetermined situation, the game program causes the computer of the information processing apparatus to perform outputting an operation model video showing a model of an operation of the input apparatus together with a video related to a content of the game to the display apparatus. In the outputting, an animation video, which indicates an animation occurring in the game when an operation indicated by the operation model video is performed, and the operation model video are displayed side by side.