Relationship Indicators in Gaming Team Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
In team cooperation games, players often miss important information about intimate relationships during the waiting period to form a game team, leading to potential neglect of crucial teamwork elements.
Innovation Solution
An intimate relationship-based avatar processing method that displays relationship indicators in a gaming interface, allowing players to easily identify intimate relationships among team members, thereby enhancing teamwork coordination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If players communicate to know various information about each other during team formation, then information completeness improves, but information overload occurs causing important information like intimate relationships to be missed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses different colored relationship indicators (e.g., heart icons in different colors) to represent different types of intimate relationships between team members. This visual encoding allows players to quickly distinguish relationship information without being overwhelmed by text or detailed descriptions, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and processing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments relationship information into distinct visual indicators that can be independently recognized. Each intimate relationship is represented by a separate, recognizable symbol or icon placed near the relevant player avatars, allowing players to scan and process relationship information in small, manageable units rather than as a large block of text
2Loss of information
If relationship indicators are displayed for all team members, then relationship visibility improves, but display space is occupied reducing other interface elements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent nests relationship indicators within or adjacent to player avatar displays. The relationship icons are positioned in the space already allocated for player information, effectively utilizing existing display real estate without requiring additional interface space. This allows relationship information to be visible while maintaining adequate space for other game interface elements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies relationship indicators selectively only to player avatars that have intimate relationships with others, rather than uniformly to all team members. This localized approach ensures that relationship information is visible where needed while minimizing the total display space consumed by indicators
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AI summary
In a method for displaying relationship-based relationship indicators in a gaming interface, a team interface including a plurality of player positions is displayed. Player avatars at the plurality of player positions are displayed. Each player avatar corresponds to a respective team member of a plurality of team members. When a relationship is detected between at least two team members of the plurality of team members, relationship indicators at the plurality of player positions corresponding to the at least two team members are displayed. The relationship indicators indicate the relationship detected between the at least two team members. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.