Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Kai Inoue

Akira Sakai

Shigeru Chiba

Junki Hirai

Toshiaki Kanahara

Tsuguo Shinpo

Yoshihiko Narita

Jun Murai

Kazuhiko Uehara

A control system includes: one or more memories configured to store instructions; and one or more processors communicatively connected to the one or more memories and configured to execute the instructions to: acquire status data indicative of a status of a game from a game system configured to progress the game played by one or more players; generate commentary information to be played by a terminal apparatus to which a game video representative of the status of the game is delivered, the commentary information being to be played in conjunction with the game video; and use the status data and setting data specifying a commentary condition to generate the commentary information on the status of the game under the commentary condition.

Control system, information system, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

A game system is provided that can gamify selection at a selection opportunity. A game system provides, to a viewer who via a user terminal device is viewing a game screen of a baseball game provided by a game machine, a selection screen for selecting one or more of plural individual option regions that are included in the game screen of the baseball game. Furthermore, when a home run occurs in the baseball game according to a predetermined rule so as to enter (reach) any one of the plural individual option regions, the game system determines a winning region which a ball image of the home run enters and, if the winning region matches the individual option region selected in the selection screen, imparts a benefit to the viewer who made the selection.

Game system, storage medium used in such, and control method

An information processing system () includes: a first terminal () that controls progress of a game; and a second terminal () that is communicably connected with the first terminal () and that does not have a function to control progress of the game. The second terminal () includes a transmitting section () that transmits, in accordance with manipulation carried out by a user with respect to the second terminal (), message information including at least (i) a message and (ii) information indicating a scene which is included in a game space where the game progresses and in which the message is to be displayed. The first terminal () includes a receiving section () that receives the message information and a message display section () that displays the message in the scene in accordance with the message information.

Information processing system, information processing method, and nontransitory storage medium

An information processing system () includes: a first terminal () that controls progress of a game; and a second terminal () that is communicably connected with the first terminal () and that does not have a function to control progress of the game. The second terminal () includes a transmitting section () that transmits, in accordance with manipulation carried out by a user with respect to the second terminal (), message information including at least a message. The first terminal () includes a receiving section () that receives the message information and a message output section () that provides the message via audio output in accordance with the message information during playing of the game.

Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a game apparatus to function as a game controller that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of the video game; and an acquirer that acquires message information that is output from a terminal apparatus configured to display a distributed video that is based on the video information, the message information including a message related to at least one of the distributed video or the video game. The game controller incorporates the message included in the message information into the video of the video game, based on progress status information indicative of a progress status of the video game.

Method for controlling game apparatus, game system, and recording medium

A watching system by which a game video is distributed to display devices of a plurality of watching users has: a computer; the computer accepting viewer operations by the plurality of watching users; the computer evaluating a mutual relationship of input of the viewer operation by each of the plurality of watching users; and the computer controlling an operation effect corresponding to the viewer operation so as to change based on evaluation result of the mutual relationship.

Watching system, computer program for watching system, and control method for watching system

A distribution system distributes a viewing video to a user terminal of each of plural users who are viewers, the distribution system having a computer receiving a user operation inputted from each user terminal, the computer selecting one or more pieces of distribution data from a distribution data group including plural pieces of distribution data in response to the user operation, and the computer distributing the distribution data selected by the computer to the user terminal from which the user operation has been inputted.

Distribution system, distribution system controlling method, and computer program

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions stored therein causes at least one processor of a game apparatus to: communicate with a distribution system configured to distribute videos to a plurality of terminal apparatuses; progress a computer game; generate, based on a progress of the computer game, video information that is used to play a video of the computer game indicating a state of a virtual space of the computer game; supply the video information to the distribution system; acquire spectator apparatus information from the distribution system, the spectator apparatus information relating to at least one spectator apparatus that is a part of the plurality of terminal apparatus, and receives a video based on the video information from the distribution system; and control display of an advertisement in the virtual space, based on the spectator apparatus information.

Control method for game apparatus, and game system with advertising management

A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a server apparatus communicable with a game apparatus capable of executing a game and delivering a video to a terminal apparatus, to perform a method of: acquiring, from a game apparatus that executes a game, video information indicating a game video of the game; and delivering, to the terminal apparatus, the game video indicated by the video information. The delivering includes, with the game apparatus having generated specific information indicating that the game video is a specific video, delivering to the terminal apparatus a specific advertisement for a specific commercial item associated with the specific video in response to acquiring the video information and the specific information from the game apparatus.

Control method for server apparatus, delivery system, and recording medium

Provided is a video distribution system with which it is possible to improve the motivation of participants with respect to an event that is distributed as a recorded video. A video distribution system is connected via a network to user terminal devices, and distributes a recorded video obtained by recording status of a game event in which a plurality of participants participating therein, to the user terminal devices. And the video distribution system increases the prize money amount set for the game event according to selection of an amount increase option executed by each user via the user terminal device so as to be associated with the recorded video, and decides the individual prize money amount to be awarded to a target participant P based on the prize money amount at the end of a predetermined period.

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Kai Inoue