Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Niantic, Inc.

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Shohei Konno

Eiichi Nishina

Kenji Kaido

Tomohiro Hasekura

Shigeru Miyamoto

Hiroki Asakawa

Motoki Yano

Keita Tsutsui

Keigo Tsuchiya

Takamasa Shichisawa

Hiroshi Tamate

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Tatsuo Nomura

Keisuke Ichikawa

A player may send virtual characters to travel to remote locations in a parallel-reality game. The remote locations are virtual locations corresponding to real-world locations other than where the player is located. The player can therefore send a virtual character to a virtual location without traveling to the corresponding real-world location themselves. A travel time and a path the character will travel along to reach the remote location is determined. Once the virtual character has reached the remote location, it stays there for a duration of time. Client devices of players near the remote location may display a visual representation of the virtual character. The virtual character may collect virtual items and interact with other players and return to the player with any virtual items it has collected or been given.

Travel of virtual characters

Only a first parameter associated with an active object is incremented in accordance with an exercise amount of a user. In accordance with the exercise amount of the user, a second parameter is incremented even when the first parameter has not reached an upper limit, and the second parameter is incremented also when the first parameter has reached the upper limit. An in-game reward according to the active object with which the first parameter is associated is given to the user when the first parameter has reached the upper limit.

Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having game program stored therein, game processing system, game processing method, and game processing apparatus

It is made possible for a user to set whether to download data used by a program without waiting for the acceptance of a download permission or download the data in response to the acceptance of the download permission via a screen that allows for making the setting for a plurality of programs. An input/output control section () accepts, from the user, a setting as to whether to select an automatic download state or a manual download state via a screen that allows for doing so for a plurality of programs. If the setting of selecting the automatic download state is accepted, an item management section () downloads the data from a server without waiting for the acceptance of the download permission from the user when a predetermined condition is satisfied. If the setting of selecting the manual download state is accepted, the item management section () downloads the data from the server in response to the acceptance of the download permission from the user when the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Information processing system, information processing device, information processing method, program and information storage medium for setting download permissions or settings

Methods and apparatus provide for a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.

Communication system, communication method, program and information storage medium

The present invention is to facilitate finding of a user expected to have a high relevance among other users present in the same living area when identification information of these other users is displayed as a list. A location information acquirer acquires location information showing a location measured in an information processing terminal. A display controller () carries out control to make identification information of a plurality of users be displayed on a specific terminal. The display controller () carries out control to make the identification information of the plurality of users be displayed in order according to timing when a reference location is measured by the specific terminal or the number of times of existence of a location shown by location information acquired from the information processing terminal corresponding to a user as a subject of display control in an area including the reference location about a case in which the location shown by the location information acquired from the information processing terminal corresponding to the user as the subject of the display control exists in the area including the reference location.

Information processing system, information processing terminal, information processing method, program, and information storage medium

Provided is a communication system for allowing a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section () for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section () for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section () obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.

Provided is an information processing device that provides a user with a trajectory of positions calculated by positioning unit in a user-friendly way without displaying a map. The device includes a positioning section () repeatedly calculates a position, a position coordinate storage section () that stores a plurality of positions calculated by the positioning section, and an other-user information providing section () that displays letter strings indicating the positions stored in the position coordinate storage section () in an order that the positions are calculated. The positioning section () stores, in a case where a newly calculated position is at a given distance or more from the position last stored in the position coordinate storage section (), the newly calculated position into the position coordinate storage section ().

Information processing device, display control method, a program, and an information storage medium

A position coordinate receiving section obtains a position from a user terminal. A nearby user distributing section provides information about a source user terminal to a recipient user terminal. The nearby user distributing section controls whether or not to provide the information about the source user terminal to the recipient user terminal based on a position that is obtained from the recipient user terminal and a position obtained from the source user terminal. The position obtained from the source user terminal that is used in the control is a position outside an area set by a user of the source user terminal. Accordingly, a user is provided a way to prevent other users from knowing that the user is in a place specified by the user.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shohei Konno