Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix

Square Enix Co., Ltd.

Square Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Minagawa

Kazutoyo Maehiro

Yoshinori Tsuchida

Tadashi Tsushima

Mitsuteru Fukushima

Yuji Sakka

A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game is provided. A display device is caused to display multiple virtual image sets including at least a first virtual image set and a second virtual image set. The multiple virtual image sets corresponding to one input device. The first virtual image set corresponds to a first set of gameplay operations and the second virtual image set corresponds to a second set of gameplay operations. Only one of the virtual image sets is activated at a time according to a selection by a player. An input receiver receives a selection of an input of the one input device, and a gameplay operation corresponding to the input selected is executed. The gameplay operation executed corresponds to the activated set of the virtual images.

Video game processing apparatus and video game processing program

A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game is provided. An image display device is caused to display operating section images in an operating section image display area on a display screen in an arrangement pattern corresponding to arrangement positions of respective operating sections. The operating section images are operating section images respectively corresponding to the operating sections arranged in the operational input section. Identification display allowing a player to identify the operational function associated with the corresponding operating section is made for each of the group of operating section images. When to receive an operational input in response to an operation of any of the plurality of operating sections by the player, the video game processing apparatus carries out operation correspondence processing that indicates processing to exert an operational function associated with the operating section operated by the player.

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

A cellular phone does not store information unnecessary for displaying a screen and transmits a screen display request including an identifier of a screen to be displayed next to a server apparatus. In response to the screen display request, the server apparatus reads a display information file including screen elements for configuring the screen from a database and sends the file to the cellular phone. The cellular phone generates a screen using the screen elements included in the display information file and displays the generated screen on a display device. The display information file is prepared as one file for each screen displayed on the cellular phone. The file includes information of all screen elements necessary for the screen and does not include information of any screen elements unnecessary for the screen.

Transmission and reception of display information that configures a screen with multiple screen elements

When movement of a player character is instructed, a position and a direction of the player character after movement thereof are calculated. When the calculated position of the player character after movement thereof is in a moving-to area moved from a current area over a boundary therebetween, map data of a body of the area moved from the current area and map data of a boundary area including a part of the moving-to area are loaded into a RAM from a recording medium, and then the player character is positioned in the moving-to area to be displayed on a display screen. When the player character is positioned in the boundary area near the boundary, a boundary object is displayed at a predetermined position above the boundary in a virtual three-dimensional space.

Video game apparatus for displaying information indicating boundary between fields

A dummy object is generated by copying an object. A color of the dummy object is set to be brighter than the object and the position of the dummy object is finely adjusted. After that, the object and the dummy object are drawn using the Z sort method. Polygons of the object are added to a sort table as usual, whereas polygons of the dummy object are added to the sort table after such a shift of the first address of the sort table as to locate them behind their actual depth value with respect to the view point. Since the polygons are drawn from the farthest polygon from the view point in the sort table, the object is drawn over the dummy object. In the last stage the dummy object remains only in the part projecting outside the object and the part is drawn in a brighter color than the object.

Methods and apparatus for shading object drawings in video games

An electronic comic including at least one frame on each page, each of the frames having a balloon portion displaying words and a frame image, is viewed on a screen of a display device. The balloon portion and the frame image are stored as image data, and words displayed in the balloon portion are displayed as text data separately from the image data.

Electronic comic viewing apparatus and method and recording medium

A method of image processing where a location of a three-dimensional object to be displayed by a quadrilateral polygon is displayed as a natural concave/convex shape and thereby the mode of change of the form of the three-dimensional object is displayed without a strange feeling, includes drawing and recording a quadrilateral polygon designated for division. The method also includes provisionally dividing that quadrilateral polygon into two triangular planes by a separating line connecting two facing vertexes, and judging if the two triangular planes form a convex shape facing the outside of the three-dimensional object. The method also includes dividing the quadrilateral polygon by that provisional division pattern if forming a convex shape, and dividing the quadrilateral polygon by another division pattern using a separating line connecting the remaining two vertexes if forming a concave shape so that the two triangular planes form a convex shape facing the outside of the three-dimensional object. Thus, the location of the three-dimensional object displayed by the quadrilateral polygon is displayed to form a convex shape facing the outside.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Minagawa