Virtual Ward Placement Accuracy in Mobile MOBA Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
In current mobile MOBA games, users face challenges in accurately inserting virtual resource objects, such as wards, due to insufficient precision in operating skill buttons, leading to suboptimal performance and affected user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a terminal device that determines the target location for inserting virtual resource objects based on preset conditions, communicates with a server for consistency checks, and updates the graphical interface to ensure accurate placement, rather than relying solely on user precision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users manually operate skill buttons to insert virtual resource objects, then user freedom of operation is maintained, but insertion precision deteriorates due to insufficient operational precision
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an auxiliary selection interface as an intermediary between the user and the virtual resource object insertion. This interface displays multiple candidate positions, allowing users to select from pre-calculated optimal locations rather than manually positioning objects. The intermediary layer translates complex positioning operations into simple selection tasks, thereby improving precision without significantly increasing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary calculations to determine optimal insertion positions before the user makes a selection. By pre-computing candidate positions based on game state analysis and strategic considerations, the system prepares multiple viable options in advance. This preliminary action reduces the cognitive load on users and ensures that even casually selected positions meet precision requirements.
2Measurement precision
If the system automatically determines target location, then insertion accuracy is improved, but user control deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a dynamic hybrid mode where control transitions between automatic and manual based on user preferences and game contexts. The auxiliary selection interface allows users to adjust the degree of automation, selecting from fully automatic positioning, semi-automatic with candidate options, or fully manual positioning. This dynamic adaptability ensures placement accuracy through system intelligence while preserving user control through selectable intervention points.
3Measurement precision
If multiple candidate positions are provided, then selection accuracy is improved, but interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The auxiliary selection interface applies local quality by displaying different numbers and types of candidate positions in different regions of the game interface. High-priority positions with higher strategic value are prominently displayed with larger icons or different visual characteristics, while secondary positions are shown with smaller indicators. This localized differentiation helps users quickly identify and select optimal positions without being overwhelmed by uniform complexity across the entire interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color changes to encode information about candidate positions, reducing the cognitive burden of processing multiple options. Different colors indicate different qualities of positions (e.g., green for optimal, yellow for good, orange for acceptable). This visual encoding allows users to rapidly assess and compare positions based on color cues rather than analyzing detailed attributes of each candidate, thereby improving selection accuracy while maintaining interface simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and a terminal device for providing an application interface. Processing circuitry executes an application program that provides a graphical interface on a display device. The processing circuitry obtains a present location of a graphical symbol in the graphical interface. The graphical symbol is indicative of a placement of a resource for use at a specific area in the graphical interface. Then, the processing circuitry determines whether the present location of the graphical symbol satisfies a preset condition, and determines a target location when the present location satisfies the preset condition. Then, the network interface circuitry sends a request message to a server device. When the terminal device receives an approval message, the terminal device updates the graphical interface with a graphical icon of the resource being positioned at the target location.