JP2002263370A - Communication game system, recording medium and program - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] In a maze constructed on a network,
Provide a technology that changes the maze without resource problems and allows the player to play repeatedly without getting tired. SOLUTION: When it is determined that the maze has disappeared or generated,
A character existing in the maze is eliminated to eliminate the maze, and a new maze is generated. Further, the judgment of the disappearance / generation of the maze is made after the event occurring in the maze is cleared or a predetermined time has elapsed, and the player is notified in advance of the maze disappearance.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention records a communication game system and a program in which a plurality of information terminal players share a virtual space constructed on a network, and a game is advanced by a character operated by each player. The present invention relates to a recording medium and a program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In many games of this type, each player operates a character that is his or her own and adventures in a shared virtual space while fighting enemies and acquiring treasures. There are fields in the virtual space, and towns, mazes, and the like are arranged on the fields. The field is composed of grasslands, mountains, rivers, the sea, and the like. In the grasslands, characters can move on foot and go to towns and mazes. In the town, there are shops where you can buy and sell various items, inns where you can recover your physical strength by staying, churches that bring the dead back to life, etc. Many characters gather at the start of the game. In addition, mazes exist under caves and castles located in various places in the field (underground mazes in castles are called dungeons). A target treasure, a demon to be defeated, and the like are arranged at the back of the maze, but in order to reach the treasure, many enemy characters appear to fight. As described above, the maze is a main part of such a game in which various events occur.

[0003]

In such a game, if an object such as acquisition of treasure is achieved in all mazes,
The player loses interest in the game. As a countermeasure, the types of treasures that can be acquired in the maze are regularly changed, and new mazes are added each time. However, the former is insufficient in freshness because the maze does not change, and the latter has a resource problem such as an increase in the number of mazes and a new field for arranging the increased mazes. Was.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and in a maze constructed in a virtual space on a network, the maze is changed without any resource problem.
An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that allows a player to play repeatedly without getting tired.

[0005]

A first means of the present invention is as follows.
A communication game system in which a player of a plurality of information terminals shares a virtual space constructed on a network, and processes an event occurring in a maze in the virtual space by a character operated by each player. Judgment means for judging generation, exclusion means for excluding a character present in the maze when disappearance / generation of the maze is judged by the judgment means, and exclusion of characters in the maze by the exclusion means A communication game system comprising: a disappearing / generating means for causing the maze to disappear after being played and generating a new maze.

According to this means, when the disappearance / generation is determined, the maze is eliminated / generated after eliminating the character operated by the player present in the maze.
The location of the character after the maze disappears and is generated can be clarified.

Here, the network means a computer network using a telephone line network, the Internet, or the like. The information terminal means a personal computer, a mobile phone, a video game device with a communication function, or the like.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the determination of disappearance / generation of the determination means is a clearing of an event occurring in the maze.

According to this means, for example, by disappearing and generating when the number of players who have cleared the maze reaches the set value, it is possible to increase the awareness of competition between the players and increase the fun of the game.

[0010] The third means of the present invention, in the first means, further comprises a timer means for measuring a time, wherein the determination of the disappearance / generation of the determination means is a predetermined time of the timer means. It is.

According to this means, the maze is changed, for example, every several days, so that the game can be kept fresh. In order to change the game, the predetermined time of the timer may be changed periodically or set by a random number.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the extinguishing means further comprises a preliminary displaying means for displaying in advance that the maze will disappear.

According to this means, when a character operated by the player exists in the maze, the player can evacuate the character out of the maze by knowing in advance that the maze will disappear.

According to a fifth means of the present invention, a virtual space constructed on a network is shared by a plurality of information terminal players, and an event occurring in a maze in the virtual space is processed by a character operated by each player. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for determining a maze disappearance / generation,
An exclusion step of eliminating a character present in the maze when the maze disappearance / generation is determined in the determination step; and , A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for executing an annihilation / generation step of generating a new maze is recorded.

By storing the program in a recording medium, it is possible to distribute only the program. The recording medium is a CD-ROM, a floppy (registered trademark) disk,
Game cartridges, memory cards, magnetic disks,
Any medium such as a magnetic tape can be used.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, a virtual space constructed on a network is shared by players of a plurality of information terminals, and an event occurring in a maze in the virtual space is processed by a character operated by each player. A determining step of determining disappearance / generation of the maze; and an elimination step of eliminating a character present in the maze when the determination / determination of disappearance / generation of the maze is performed. And deleting the maze after the character in the maze is eliminated by the elimination step, and executing a erasure / generation step of generating a new maze.

The program is distributed via a network,
The information terminal can execute the program.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example of a system configuration according to the present embodiment. The server 1 provides a communication game to a plurality of personal computers 3-1 to 3-n connected via a network 4. The network 4 is a telephone line network, the Internet, or the like.

FIG. 2 shows a hardware block diagram of the server 1. The data bus 14 has a CPU (Cen
Tral Processing Unit) 11, R
OM (Read Only Memory) 12 and RAM (Random Access Memory)
y) 13 is connected. The data bus 14 is connected to the I /
Input device 1 via the O interface 15
6, a display 17, a CD-ROM 18, a hard disk 19 and a communication unit 20 are connected.

The CPU 11 is a controller for controlling each function of the server, and performs various processes according to a program stored in the ROM 12. The CPU 11 has a timekeeping function using an oscillation circuit. RAM13 is C
Recording means used as a work area of the PU 11,
ROM 12, CD-ROM 18, or hard disk 1
For example, predetermined contents such as 9 or the calculation result of the CPU 11 is stored. The input device 16 is a keyboard, a mouse or the like operated by the player. The display 17 is composed of a CRT or a liquid crystal or the like, and displays predetermined images, characters, and the like. The hard disk 19 is an OS (Operatin)
g System), a communication game program and data read from the CD-ROM 18 are stored. The communication unit 20 is configured by a modem, for example, and communicates with the personal computers 3-1 to 3-n via the network 4 such as the Internet.

FIG. 3 shows a hardware block diagram of the personal computer 3-1 (not shown, but the same applies to the personal computers 3-2 to 3-n). The basic configuration is the same as that of the server in FIG.
The PU 11P to the communication unit 20P correspond to the CPU 11 to the communication unit 20 in FIG.

FIG. 4 illustrates a field screen displayed on the display 17P of the personal computer 3-1. The character 51 walks between the town 52 on the field and the maze 53 on the hillside or the maze 54 on the shore according to the input from the input device 16P of the player. Town 5
2 has an inn (not shown) and a save point when the game is interrupted. When the character 51 moves to the position of the maze 53 or 54, the character 51 can enter the maze.

FIG. 5 illustrates the configuration of the maze 53.
The maze 53 includes maze modules A, B, and C, and is connected by the connection passage a or b. Maze module A
Has an entrance, and the deepest maze module C has treasures. The character 51 enters the maze 53 from the entrance of the maze module A and aims to acquire the treasure of the maze module C.

In the maze 53, the above-mentioned treasure is the character 51.
, Or when the timer by the timer function of the CPU 11P reaches a predetermined time, the maze 53 is erased and a new maze 53-r (see FIG. 6) is generated. The newly generated maze 53-r is composed of maze modules D, E and F, and the communication path a or b
Are connected by

FIG. 7 shows the structure of the maze modules A to F. The treasures 55 described above are arranged in the maze modules C and F. The data of these maze modules A to F are stored in the hard disk 19 of the server 7, and are read when a new maze is generated.

FIG. 8 exemplifies a disappearance pre-display screen displayed when the maze 53 disappears. In the case where the characters 51-1 or 51-2 are present in the maze 53, the location of these characters 51-1 or 51-2 becomes unknown if the maze 53 is eliminated as it is. Therefore, the maze 53 is vibrated and displayed in order to notify the player in advance that the maze 53 will disappear and to cause the characters 51-1 and 51-2 to escape. At this time, the character 51-1 or 51-2 that has not escaped during the vibration display is forcibly moved to the vicinity of the maze 53 entrance on the field screen (see FIG. 9).

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the processing in the server 1. That is, the CPU 11 of the server 1 starts the timer 1 (101). If the timer 1 has counted the predetermined time (102), or if the timer has not counted the predetermined time, the timer 2 is started when any of the personal computers 3-1 to 3-n receives the clearing of the maze 53 (111). (103), and an extinguishing advance display for vibrating the image of the maze 53 is performed (104). When the timer 2 counts a predetermined time (105), if a character exists in the maze 53 (106), the character is moved to the entrance of the maze 53 (107). On the other hand, if no character exists in the maze 53 (106), step 107 is skipped. The maze module data is read from the hard disk 19 (108), and a new maze 53-r is generated (109). The data of the generated maze 53-r is transmitted to the personal computer playing the game via the network 4 (110), and the process returns to step 102.

As described above, according to this embodiment, when one of the players clears the maze, the maze can be changed and the competitiveness of the player can be increased. With the passage of time, the maze is changed, and the interest in the game can be maintained. In addition, when the maze is changed, the display before the disappearance is performed so that the player of the character existing inside the maze can be notified.

It should be noted that the maze disappearing / generating may be the use of a predetermined item by the character in addition to the passage of time and the event clear. In addition, the change of the maze may include a change of an appearing enemy character, a placed trap, and the like, in addition to the change of the structure.

[0030]

According to the present invention, in a maze constructed on a network, it is possible to provide a technique in which a maze is changed without any resource problem and a player can play repeatedly without getting tired.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a server.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of a personal computer.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a field screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a structure of a maze.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a structure of a maze.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a maze module.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a pre-disappearance display screen.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a field screen.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Server 3-1, 3-2, 3-n Personal computer 4 Network 51 Character 53, 54 Maze A, B, C, D, E, F Maze module

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A communication game system in which players of a plurality of information terminals share a virtual space constructed on a network, and an event occurring in a maze in the virtual space is processed by a character operated by each player. Determining means for determining disappearance / generation of the maze; removing means for removing a character present in the maze when the determination means determines disappearance / generation of the maze; A communication game system comprising: a disappearing / generating means for causing the maze to disappear after a character in the inside is eliminated, and for creating a new maze. 2. The communication game system according to claim 1, wherein the judgment of disappearance / generation of said judgment means is clearing of an event occurring in said maze. 3. The communication game system according to claim 1, further comprising timer means for measuring a time, wherein the determination of the disappearance / generation of said determination means is a predetermined time of said timer means. 4. The communication game system according to claim 1, wherein said disappearance / generation means further includes a preliminary display means for displaying in advance that said maze is to disappear. 5. A computer in which a player of a plurality of information terminals shares a virtual space constructed on a network and records a program for processing an event occurring in a maze in the virtual space by a character operated by each player. A readable recording medium, wherein a judging step of judging the disappearance / generation of the maze; and excluding a character existing in the maze when the judging step judges the disappearance / generation of the maze. And a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for executing a step of deleting the maze after the character in the maze is eliminated by the eliminating step, and executing an erasure / generation step of generating a new maze. 6. A program for sharing a virtual space constructed on a network by players of a plurality of information terminals and processing an event occurring in a maze in the virtual space by a character operated by each player. A determining step of determining the disappearance / generation of the maze; an exclusion step of eliminating a character present in the maze when the disappearance / generation of the maze is determined by the determining step; A program for causing the maze to disappear after the characters in the maze are eliminated, and executing a disappearance / generation step of generating a new maze.