Namco Limited

Namco Bandai Games, Ltd.

Jun Toyoda

Hiroshi Watanabe

Shinichiro Okamoto

A feature image area that has a similar feature (e.g., quadrangular outline) is extracted from an original two-dimensional image photographed by a player. When a game has started, the original two-dimensional image is displayed as the background of a game stage, and a target characteris caused to appear or disappear from the extracted feature image area at a random appearance frequency and a random appearance speed. When the player has touched the target character, points are added to the score of the player.

Video game superimposing virtual characters on user supplied photo used as game screen background

A game machine is disclosed in which a visual point position is automatically changed after an elapse of a fixed time if an object exists between a player character and a visual point position as the player character is seen from the visual point position in a three-dimensional virtual space.

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Tokyo, Japan

Jun Toyoda