Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix

Square Enix Co., Ltd.

Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.

Mitsuru Kamiyama

Yasushi Matsumura

Hiroyuki Kuwata

Kazuhiro Yamauchi

Tetsuji Iwasaki

Alex Tait

Hiroyuki Saegusa

Shin Takenami

A rendering system includes a command server and a plurality of rendering servers. The command server receives a screen transmission request from the client terminal. The command server evaluates, for each of the plurality of rendering servers, at least one of a number of connected terminals, an average transmission rate, a GPU operation rate, a congestion status, and a length of a transfer path to the client terminal. The command server specifies, based on evaluation results, at least one of the plurality of rendering servers to render a screen to be transmitted to the client terminal.

Rendering system, control method, and storage medium

A command server outputs information related to a screen rendering command and transmission destination information to a rendering server, in which at least some of rendering resources required when performing rendering of a screen in accordance with the information related to the rendering command are loaded, among a plurality of rendering servers associated with the command server. Then, the rendering server reads the rendering resources from the required rendering resources that are still not loaded to load them into the loading region to hold them, performs the rendering of the screen based on the information related to the rendering command, and transmits it to a target client terminal.

A server arrangement for controlling a video game viewable by game participants at a plurality of respective terminals. The server arrangement has a game engine to output graphical scenes collectively representing a virtual world with game characters, each graphical scene describing a portion of the virtual world. The server arrangement also has a shared-rendering engine for associating game participants with respective graphical scenes and for performing a shared-rendering operation on the graphical scenes to generate respective moving-image data streams, the shared-rendering operation being common for the game participants that are associated by the shared-rendering engine with the same graphical scene.

Online game server architecture using shared rendering

To improve game performance, in a three-dimensional video game in which a viewpoint position changes in accordance with a movement of a player character, considering an aspect of how to show a player an activation of a prescribed effect at a second object, forming a pair with a first object, for which the effect is set. In a case in which an action source objectand an action target objectare displayed, within a display range which changes in accordance with a movement of a player character, on a second LCD, on a front surface of which a touch panel is disposed, when a line drawing operation is carried out on the touch panel from a display position of the action source objectto a display position of the action target object, a speed at which the line drawing operation is being carried out is calculated. In the event that the calculated speed is equal to or faster than a prescribed speed, as well as an effect display being done on a locus of the line drawing operation, an effect set for the action target objectis activated.

Game device, game implementation method, program and recording medium

In a game capable of generating a game element which gives rise to predetermined benefits in the game by means of a player's operation, by preventing the player from quickly getting used to a generation operation of the game element, to stop the player from becoming bored with the operation. On a magic stone generation screen, a solutionbeing contained in a pot, materialsare floated in the solution. An image of a material, selected by a material selection operation, dissolving in the solutionis displayed on the magic stone generation screen. When a stirring operation is carried out on the magic stone generation screen, in a condition in which the materialis dissolved in the solution, the solutionand the materialcontained in the potare churned by the operation. In the event that a speed at which the churning is carried out continues for six seconds within an optimum speed range, a magic stoneis generated. A kind of the generated magic stoneis determined by a combination of kinds of the materialdissolved in the solution

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Mitsuru Kamiyama