Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Namco Limited

Namco Bandai Games, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Bandai Namco Games

Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

Akio Onda

Hiroshi Igarashi

Junji Takamoto

Noboru Wakitani

Kuniaki Ito

Hideo Nagata

Takeshi Nagareda

Makoto Kikuchi

Jun Tamaoki

Yuki Matsuba

Masayuki Oda

Tatsuya Shioiri

Daisuke Omori

Toshio Suzuki

Haruyoshi Yamamoto

Takashi Aoki

Hajime Watabe

Kyoko Endo

Yuka Takei

Kiyoshi Minami

Tadashi Sakakibara

Kentaro Yamaguchi

Hiroumi Endo

Norihiro Nishimura

Junichiro Koyama

Hiroaki Oochi

Yusuke Tsutsumi

Taketoshi Inagaki

Kazumasa Koseki

Hiroyuki Nashida

Yuji Iizuka

Kenichi Nagashima

Hiroki Yakata

Kouji Asuna

Kentaro Tamura

Tatsuki Mizuno

Kenichi Ogura

Akinari Ushiguchi

Shintaro Murai

Michiru Takahashi

Koji Inokuchi

Katsunori Yamada

Kazuaki Shoji

Toru Hisano

A server system to manage esports live distribution distributes, to a viewer terminal, data for displaying an image of gameplay by players on the viewer terminal, and situation data. The situation data describes various situations, such as a viewer's watching situation, a game progress status, a player's operation situation, a reward generation situation, a posting situation of comments such as cheers, and an evaluation situation of players by viewers. In the viewer terminal, various types of situation data are compared with predetermined screen configuration change conditions, and when some of the conditions is satisfied, the present configuration of a watching screen is changed to a screen configuration associated with the satisfied condition to provide information for the viewer in such a manner as to facilitate understanding of a situation on each occasion.

Computer system, viewer terminal, method for controlling live watching, and program

A server is configured to detect an option element of an advantage option for an option set player and customize a specification of the advantage option that has been set or to be set in the future, based on the option element thus detected, to increase the attractiveness of the advantage option so that the player will be more motivated to actively acquire the advantage option.

Server system, game system, and game execution method

A server in conjunction with a terminal device detects a status of a non-time element differing from a time element among game elements; executes area setting processing for setting a game field to a first game area and a second game area that differs from the first game area in accordance with the detected status of the non-time element; executes, at least when the second game area has been set by the area setting processing, constraint setting processing of setting a given constraint in the game on a player character belonging to the second game area; and providing the terminal device with information for controlling a player character on which the given constraint in the game has been imposed as a player character belonging to the second game area and controlling a player character belonging to the first game area without imposing the given constraint in the game.

Game system and game provision method

When control is performed to output a watching target advertisement on a display screen displaying a game image, a user selects and sets an input element from entertainment elements, related to the game, possessed by the user. When the input element is determined, the watching target advertisement is controlled. The input element is consumed when the watching control is completed. Then, an output element, which is an entertainment element different from the input element and is selected based on information on the watching target advertisement, information on the input element, and the like, is given to the user.

System for giving entertainment element in return for watching advertisement

A computer system performs display control to display a reward advertisement at a given screen switching timing, a screen switching timing due to start or end of a game progress unit, or a timing at which a game progression satisfies a given change condition. The computer system gives a reward for watching the advertisement to a player. The reward is set based on user data and/or play data of the player related to the game.

Computer system, game system, and game device

An advertisement that has been watched by a friend but has not been watched by a target player is controlled to be displayed at a timing satisfying a timing condition defining a timing at which the advertisement is displayed, in a game played by the target player. At that time, information indicating that the advertisement has been watched by the friend is also controlled to be displayed. A reward for watching the advertisement is given to the target player. The reward changes in accordance with the number of the friends who have watched the advertisement and a friendship level of the friend. The target player is further notified that the advertisement has been watched by the friend, and thus the reward has changed.

System for giving reward in exchange for watching advertisement

When a player sets an acquisition target item to be an item he or she wants at a timing of creating a plan, actually required points that are required for acquiring the acquisition target item is determined. Then, options of the advertisement plan in which one or a plurality of advertisements are listed so that watching points reaching the actually required points can be acquired, from options of advertisements that can be watched in exchange for the watching points. When any of the plans is selected and confirmed, an advertisement is displayed based on the plan, and the watching points are given to the player. When the sum of the watching points given reaches the actually required points, the acquisition target item in the plan is given to the player.

A game system includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to implement: a game process for a user to play a game; a purchase process for the user to purchase a virtual currency; a management process that manages purchase information of the virtual currency of the user, in association with user information; and a shop process that sets a virtual shop in which the user is able to obtain an item of the game by spending the virtual currency purchased. The processor implements the shop process including a process that makes a special shop different from a regular shop appear as the shop, based on the purchase information of the virtual currency of the user.

Game system, virtual currency processing system, processing method, and information storage medium

A simulation system includes a processor including hardware. The processor performs: a virtual space setting process of setting a virtual space in which a plurality of objects are arranged; a virtual camera control process of controlling a virtual camera corresponding to a point-of-view of a user wearing a head mounted display; and a display process of generating an image as viewed from the virtual camera in the virtual space as a display image on the head mounted display. In the virtual space setting process, the processor arranges at least one information display object in a line-of-sight direction of the user, and in the display process, when it is determined that a given change condition is satisfied by a change in the point-of-view of the user, the processor performs a change process of a display mode of the information display object.

Simulation system, processing method, and information storage medium for changing a display object in response to a movement of a field of view

A simulation system includes a processor including hardware. The processor performs an information acquisition process of acquiring position information of a user wearing a head mounted display to cover his/her field of view; a virtual space setting process of setting a virtual space where a moving body corresponding to the user is arranged and set based on the acquired position information; a moving body process of moving the moving body in the virtual space based on the acquired position information; and a display process of generating a display image on the head mounted display. In the virtual space setting process, the processor sets the virtual space such that a first moving body group and a second moving body group are arranged and set in a common virtual field of the virtual space.

Simulation system, processing method, and information storage medium

When a user selects an input element from entertainment elements, related to a game, possessed by the user and accepts an advertisement output offer, advertisement watching control starts. Improvement control including 1) improving a parameter value associated with the input element, or 2) improving the parameter value associated with the input element and changing a display mode of the input element is performed in return for advertisement watching.

Computer system for performing display control for advertisement

A simulation control device includes: a display processing section; a measurement section that measures a gaze time of a user with respect to an object that is placed in the virtual space, and decreases a measured value obtained by the measurement corresponding to a time in which the user does not gaze at the object when the user has removed his/her gaze from the object; and a reception section that determines that the object has been selected when the measured value has reached a first threshold value, determines that the selection of the object has been confirmed when the measured value has reached a second threshold value that is larger than the first threshold value, and determines that the selection of the object has been canceled when the measured value has decreased to a third threshold value before the selection of the object is confirmed.

Simulation control device and information storage medium

A simulation control device that utilizes a wearable image display device includes: a display processing section that displays a virtual space on the wearable image display device; a measurement section that measures a gaze time of a user with respect to an object that is placed in the virtual space; a reception section that determines that the object has been selected when a measured value obtained by the measurement has reached a first threshold value, and determines that the selection has been confirmed when the measured value has reached a second threshold value that is larger than the first threshold value; and a notification section that notifies the user of a magnitude of the measured value.

A server system regularly accesses a video database, searches the video database for a game play video of an online game provided by the server system based on a cyclic check keyword, and stores (manages) access information about the game play video, video-related information, a view count, and the like as cyclic check result data. When the server system has received an inquiry about the game play video of the online game from a user terminal that executes the online game, the server system searches the cyclic check result data and the like for the access information about the game play video that is appropriate for the play state, and returns the access information. The server system gives a bonus to the user (player) of the game play video of which the view count has reached a reference value.

Server system for sharing game play videos

The position and the posture of an HMD, and the position of a game controller in the real space are detected, and tracked. An image of a virtual space is displayed on the HMD. A controller object is disposed and displayed at a position within the virtual space that corresponds to the position of the game controller in the real space viewed from the HMD. Therefore, the player can easily find and hold the game controller even when the player wears the HMD.

Display control method for head-mounted display (HMD) and image generation device

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Warabi, Japan

Akio Onda