Racing Game Progress Mapping for Accurate Off-Route Ranking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods struggle to accurately determine rankings in racing games when races deviate from predefined routes, especially in wide-ranging courses.

Innovation Solution

Implementing determination two-dimensional data that sets a determination parameter across two-dimensional coordinate points in a virtual space, allowing for accurate ranking determination even when progress occurs outside the designated route.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional ranking determination methods are used, then the system is simple to implement, but the measurement precision of progress determination deteriorates when objects deviate from the route

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprogress determination precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from one-dimensional route-based progress determination to two-dimensional coordinate-based determination. By creating determination two-dimensional data that maps progress values across a two-dimensional coordinate system covering the entire field, the system can accurately determine progress for objects anywhere in the space, not just on predefined routes, thereby resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Adaptability or versatility

If ranking determination is based on route deviation, then the adaptability to wide-range courses is improved, but the measurement precision of progress determination deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecourse range adaptabilityVSAvoidprogress determination precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a two-dimensional determination data structure that spans the entire field, allowing accurate progress measurement for objects at any position regardless of route deviation. This dimensional expansion enables both adaptability to wide-range courses and precise progress determination simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The determination two-dimensional data is pre-calculated and stored before the racing game begins, mapping progress values across the entire field. This preliminary preparation allows the system to quickly and accurately determine progress for any object position during the game without requiring complex real-time calculations, thus maintaining measurement precision while adapting to various course ranges.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260061310A1One or more non-transitory computer-readable media, information processing method, and information processing system

Publication Date: 2026.03.05 NINTENDO CO LTD

AI summary

An example of a game system according to an exemplary embodiment executes a racing game where a player object is progressed on a course at least including a route from a first point to a second point. Based on determination two-dimensional data which is two-dimensional data corresponding to two-dimensional coordinate points with respect to a horizontal direction in a virtual space and in which a determination parameter indicating a degree of progress is recorded with respect to each coordinate point, the game system makes a first determination based on a value of the determination parameter at a coordinate point in the determination two-dimensional data corresponding to a position in the virtual space of the player object.