Konami Corporation

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Konami Co., Ltd.

Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka, Inc.

Kentaro Nagayama

Makoto Higashiyama

Tatsuya Shinkai

Kuka Lee

Kenta Takahashi

Masahiro Kiyomoto

Takemasa Miyoshi

An obtaining unit of a moving control device obtains a first contact position and a second contact position on a touch panel. A determination unit determines information about a trajectory of a moving object in a virtual space based on the first contact position and second contact position. A moving control unit moves the moving object in the virtual space based on the information.

Moving control device, moving control method, and information recording medium

Provided is a game system that, while reducing a load on a communication line, enables a current situation of a game that is being played by at least one user to be known by another user. A situation identifying information transmission section transmits, to an output device, situation identifying information related to the situation of the game that is being executed in at least one game device. An output control section of the output device causes an output section to output the situation of the game based on the situation identifying information.

Game system, control method for game system, output device, control method for output device, and information storage medium

To achieve a display across a broad display area, without losing polygons projected towards the foreground of the screen, in particular. An image display control device divides a virtual three-dimensional space consisting of a plurality of three-dimensional models into a grid shape, stores the image data for the three-dimensional models in each block thus divided in a display memory, and stores the three-dimensional models in the field of view of a virtual camera positioned in the virtual three-dimensional space in a display memory of a RAM, whereupon the three-dimensional models are displayed on a monitor. The display control device has a block identifying sectionfor identifying the block where the virtual camera is positioned; a block selecting sectionfor selecting five mutually adjoining blocks from the blocks adjoining the periphery of the identified block, on the basis of the position information and line of sight direction information for the virtual camera; and an image processorfor transferring the image data for the three-dimensional models in the identified block and selected blocks to the display area of the RAM

Computer-readable recording medium recording image display control program, and image display control device and method

In order to express undulation of a surface of an object realistically, a dynamic picture image generation device comprises a movement amount computation unit, which computes the movement amount for a vertex based on the connectedness, which is the degree of connection of a vertex to each skeleton, and on the reference movement amount, set for each skeleton of a model, which is the maximum value of the movement amount of a vertex connected only to the skeleton; a direction computation unit, which computes the movement direction of vertices comprised by each polygon; and a coordinate computation unit, which computes the coordinates of a vertex after a prescribed time, using the movement amount computed by the movement amount computation unitand the movement direction computed by the direction computation unit

Recording medium storing dynamic picture image generation program, dynamic picture image generation program, dynamic picture image generation method, and device for the same

Vertices of a polygon model Mare sorted into those on which rays are projected (visible-surface vertices M) and those on which rays are not projected (hidden-surface vertices M) based on normal vectors Vof the vertices of the polygon model Mand a light source vector V, and shadow models (shadow volumes) M, M, Mare generated by moving the hidden-surface vertices in a direction of the light source vector V. Shadow images can be easily created by applying stenciling to these shadow models.

Three-dimensional image processing method and apparatus, readable storage medium storing three-dimensional image processing program and video game system

A 3D image processing unit for applying a specified image processing to display a model located in a simulated 3D space on a monitor after rendering processing. The 3D image processing unit includes a memory unit for storing a rendered model image as a collection of pixel data and distance information from a viewing point of a simulated camera in correspondence with respect to said pixel data; image processing unit for applying semitransparent processing to each pixel data read from the memory unit; rewriting unit for rewriting the pixel data with said distance information from the viewing point of the simulated camera that is a specified reference value or larger; and control unit for causing the image processing unit and the rewriting unit to repeatedly operate a specified number of times while successively increasing the specified reference value and successively increasing a degree of transparency.

Three-dimensional image processing unit and computer readable recording medium storing three-dimensional image processing program

To judge impacts with a three-dimensional model constituted by a plurality of polygons, rapidly and accurately. The vertex-coordinates of the partial models constituting the three-dimensional model are represented by central-coordinates being the average values of the maximum values and minimum values of respective coordinate components, an expansion factor for achieving prescribed values by multiplication by the differentials between the maximum values and minimum values of each coordinate component, and converted vertex-coordinates obtained by subtracting the central-coordinates from the respective vertex-coordinates and then multiplying by the expansion factor; the central-coordinates and the expansion factor being stored as floating-point values, and the converted vertex-coordinates being stored as integers (ST ). Moreover, a judgement subject partial model, being a partial model of the partial models constituting the three-dimensional model to which impact judgement is to be applied, is selected (ST ), and impact judgement is performed with respect to this judgement subject partial model (ST -ST ).

Impact judgement method and device, computer-readable recording medium recording impact judgement processing program, and video game device

A video game implementing a fishing game employs a fishing line operated by a fisher character under the control of a game player. A take-up amount computing unit performs a cumulative processing to add a predetermined amount of take-up of the fishing line, each time an operation determining unit determines that the state of a take-up button has been changed from off to on state or that the state of tilt of a stick controller has been changed. Therefore, the fishing line is taken up at a high speed when the take-up button is struck at a high frequency or when the stick controller is rotationally operated at a high speed.

Video game apparatus, method of computing amount of take-up of string in video game, and computer-readable storage medium storing program for computing amount of take-up of string in video game

A video game apparatus implementing a simulating fishing game displays an animation image representing behavior of a fish hooked on a lure. The video game apparatus has a first determining unit determines that a first condition has been met, when a fish is hooked on a lure by the operation of a game procedure controlling unit, or when the fish under the control of the game procedure controlling unit exhibits such a behavior as to apply a strong tension on the fishing line or to jump up above the water surface. An animation display controlling unit causes a monitor to display an animation image which has been stored in a storage medium and which represents a fished hooked on a fishing line, in such a manner as to enable identification of the fisher character who has hit the fish. A switching unit switches the game display screen displayed on the monitor from the fishing image to the animation image, when the first determining unit has determined that the first condition is met.

Video game apparatus, method of controlling animation display in video game, and computer-readable storage medium storing animation display controlling program of video game

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Osaka, Japan

Kentaro Nagayama