Multiplayer Character Display Using Overlap-Based Transparency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game technologies struggle to provide a seamless multiplayer experience while maintaining the ease of single-player gameplay, often leading to complicated and hard-to-read game screens due to overlapping player characters and lack of control over display manners.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where player characters are displayed translucently and user information is shown opaquely, allowing characters to overlap without interference and enabling desired timing for information display, maintaining single-player ease with multiplayer interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple player characters are displayed simultaneously in multiplayer mode, then the multiplayer experience is enhanced, but the game screen becomes complicated and hard to see
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies transparency changes to player character displays based on overlap conditions. When player characters overlap, the display switches between transparent and opaque states to manage visual complexity. This allows multiple players to be visible simultaneously while preventing screen clutter through dynamic transparency adjustment.
2Loss of information
If user information is always displayed for other player characters, then player identification is improved, but the game screen becomes cluttered and harder to view
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements conditional display of user information based on player character overlap. Instead of always displaying user information for all other players, the system selectively displays information only when specific overlap conditions are met. This partial display approach provides necessary player identification while minimizing screen clutter.
3Loss of information
If other player characters are displayed opaquely, then player visibility is improved, but the feeling of single-player ease is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic transparency adjustment for player character displays based on real-time overlap conditions. The display transitions between transparent and opaque states depending on whether player characters overlap, creating a dynamic visual experience that adapts to gameplay conditions while maintaining single-player ease when appropriate.
4Adaptability or versatility
If player characters can interfere with each other in the game space, then interaction realism is improved, but gameplay smoothness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the treatment of player character interactions by distinguishing between display-layer interactions and game-space interactions. Other player characters are excluded from interfering with the own player character's movement and object interactions in the game space, while still being visible on the display. This segmentation maintains gameplay smoothness while preserving visual awareness of other players.
Data Source
AI summary
Movement control is performed for another player character on the basis of data from another game apparatus without causing the other player character to interfere with an own player character and an object placed in a game space. When the own player character and the other player character overlap each other at least partially, the display manner of the other player character is changed.