Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Kiyomoto

Takao Yamamoto

Yoshitaka Nishimura

Shota Katagiri

Mayumi Okuyama

Toyokazu Sakai

Koichi Tomita

Toru Miki

Shohei Sakuraba

Erina Takeda

Naotaka Okamoto

Atsushi Usami

Tatsuya Iyama

Kanae Kokutani

Yuma Takafuji

Yusuke Kobayashi

Makiko Ota

The game system provides a music game which guides respective operation timings. Concretely, the game system presents on a game screen, a game area which includes: five lane images extending in parallel to each other such that a height difference is formed between an upper lane image group and a lower lane image group; and evaluation sign images and object images which are disposed along the respective lane images. The game system controls the display of the evaluation sign images and the object images such that the evaluation sign images are moved through the object images on the respective lane images at the respective operation timings to guide the respective operation timings through the coincidence of the evaluation sign images and the object images.

Game system and computer readable storage device

Provided is a game system capable of imposing restriction upon the beneficial effects of the characteristics of a character that has been selected. This game system is provided with control panels having individual rotational buttons. The game system provides a music game in which operation timings at which the individual rotational buttons are to be operated are guided in accordance with the rhythm of a musical piece selected from a musical piece group. Furthermore, the game system awards card selection opportunities for selecting character cards to be used in play, from a plurality of character cards prepared so as to have a plurality of skills which are different to each other, and which respectively correspond to changes. In a special mode, the game system sequentially implements, in a prescribed order every time the special mode is offered, the changes corresponding to the skills of the respective selected character cards.

Game system, and storage medium used in same

Provided is a game system capable of expanding the range of factors that affect the result of the music game. The game system is provided with control panels having individual rotational buttons. The game system provides a music game in which operation timings at which the individual rotational buttons are to be operated are guided in accordance with the rhythm of a musical piece selected from among a musical piece group. Furthermore, the game system awards card selection opportunities for selecting character cards to be used in play, from among a plurality of character cards prepared so as to have a plurality of skills which are different to each other, and which respectively correspond to changes. In a special mode, the game system implements, in the music game, the changes corresponding to the skills of the character cards selected at the card selection opportunities.

A game method is performed by one or more computers. The method may include, but is not limited to: displaying, on a display, 1) at least one reference indicator; 2) at least one target indicator; and 3) at least one operation indicator; recognizing, as the specific operation, a detected series of operations that an indictor gets contact with a predefined point of the detection area, before on the detection area the indicator slides while keeping the indicator in contact with the detection area; displaying, on the display, a guide indicator for guiding a slide-operational direction to which the indicator is operated to be slide; determining whether the specific operation responsive to the change of the cross position; and reflecting a result of the determination to a game result.

Game control program, game system, and game control method for displaying reference indicator and target indicator

Provided is a game machine which can actualize a play between games having different difficulty levels. The game machine is applied to a game system that progresses a game between game machines connected via a network. The game machine comprises an external storage that stores sequence data wherein each operation timing is written so as to differ from each other. And, the game machine: teaches each operation timing, based on sequence data that differs from sequence data used in another machine functioning as another terminal in the game system; obtains operation information for the other machine; and, based on it, determines whether or not prescribed reflection conditions have been fulfilled. Then, when the prescribed reflection conditions have been fulfilled based on its results, the game machine reflects the operation information for the other machine in a travel path for an object for teaching the operation timing for the game machine.

Game machine, control method used therefor, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program

A gaming system is provided with a monitor () for displaying and outputting a gaming screen (), a touch panel () superposed upon the monitor (), and an external storage device () for storing sequence data () in which operational periods of the touch panel () have been described. In addition, the gaming system displays on the monitor () a gaming area () whereon two reference units (A andB) disposed apart from each other and a specific reference unit (T) disposed in the vicinity of the reference units are set. Also, an object () for instructing operations for each of the reference units (A,B, andT) is displayed while being caused to move in the gaming area (), and the path of movement of a specific object (S) heading toward the specific reference unit (T) is restricted to a fixed path.

Game system, control method, and a storage medium storing a computer program used thereof

A gaming system is provided with a monitor for displaying and outputting a gaming screen, a touch panel superposed upon the monitor, and an external storage device for storing sequence data in which an operational period of the touch panel has been described. In addition, the gaming system displays upon the monitor a gaming area whereupon two reference units disposed apart from each other and a specific reference unit disposed in the vicinity of the reference units are set. Also, an object for instructing operations for each of the reference units is displayed while being caused to move within the gaming area, and in the case of a mis-operation of a specific object heading toward the specific reference unit, the specific object is destroyed, and the path which had been set as the object appearance area is used as the path of movement for the next object.

The disclosed data generation system is provided with a monitor for displaying a game area and a touch panel, wherein in a game for displaying two operation reference units and an object which moves therebetween upon the game area, sequence data used as data for designating an operation time period for touch-operation and operation reference units are generated. The data generation system displays, upon a display unit, an editing screen including a time period information display area for displaying information of all operation time periods chronologically and a criteria unit designation area for displaying information of operation time periods of each of the operation reference units chronologically, and for displaying, upon a criteria unit designation area, information for associating information of each of the objects corresponding to each operation time period with information of the operation reference unit where display of each of the objects is started.

Data generation system, date generation method, and a non-transitory storage medium storing a computer program configured to generate sequence data that describes reference timing in a game

The disclosed game system is provided with a monitor () for displaying and outputting a game screen (), a touch panel () overlaid upon the monitor (), and an external storage device () for storing sequence data () wherein operation time periods of the touch panel () during a game are described. In addition, the game system displays upon the monitor () a game area () in which two operation reference units (A andB) disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other have been set, moves an object () for designating operation for each of the operation reference units (A andB) between the operation reference units (A andB) while displaying thereof, and controls display of the object () so that the movement path of the object () changes according to a predetermined condition.

Game system, control method of controlling computer, and a storage medium storing a computer program

Disclosed is a game system provided with a monitor for displaying and outputting a game screen, a touch panel overlaid upon the monitor, and an external storage device for storing sequence data wherein operation time periods of the touch panel during a game are described. The sequence data includes an object corresponding to a specific operation time period for which the time interval between the following operation time period is to be less than a predetermined value, and display start information for setting a display start time period which is earlier than the following operation time period. In addition, the game system, on the basis of the sequence data, associates a second object separate from a first object corresponding to the following operation time period with the specific operation time period to cause display to start earlier than the following operation time period.

Game system and control method of controlling computer used thereof

A game system includes: a display device that displays a screen of a game; and partial information presenting device that causes the display device to display a part of customization information of which setting is to be performed by a player on the game by utilizing waiting time of the game, and wherein the partial information presenting device varies a display range which is to be displayed at the display device as a part of the customization information in accordance with customization time allocated to setting of the customization information among the waiting time of the game so that the amount of the customization information included in the display range is increased when the customization time is long and is decreased when the customization time is short.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Kiyomoto