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Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Takashi Nishibori

Yasumi Takase

Hirotaka Ishikawa

Akinori Tamura

Yoshiko Wada

Kei Nagaoka

Yumi Yoshida

Kazuya Takahashi

Naohiro Yamamoto

Kota Wakasa

Manabu Hazama

Toyofumi Kitano

Keiko Sato

A game device of a computer game includes plural unit games, each of which can be completed when a requirement for completion is satisfied. The game device includes: a rule storage unit for storing rules of the computer game, in which the rules include rules stipulating the requirement for completion of each of the plural unit games and rules stipulating a content of play of each of the plural unit games; a difficulty changer for rewriting a rule stored in the rule storage unit so as to change a level of difficulty for completion of at least one unit game among the plural unit games; and a play processor for conducting a unit game selection process for enabling a player to select one from among the plural unit games, a play execution process for executing play of the selected unit game in accordance with the rule stipulating the content of play stored in the rule storage unit, and a decision process for deciding whether or not the unit game is completed on the basis of the rule stipulating the requirement for completion stored in the rule storage unit.

Game device

In a display device (), in order to improve the visibility by changing a size for displaying character or patterns on a display screen in accordance with a distance from a user viewing the display screen, a text-containing image generating unit () generates a character image indicative of a character train to be presented to a user, a graphic image generating unit () generates a pattern image indicative of patterns to be presented to a user, a measuring unit () measures a distance between a display screen on which a displaying unit () displays the image and the user, a enlargement/contraction ratio acquiring unit () acquires a pattern enlarging and reducing rate that increases as the measured distance becomes large and a character enlarging and reducing rate that gently changes at a rate that is less than the pattern enlarging and reducing rate, and a control unit () gives the pattern image, the pattern enlarging and reducing rate, the character image and the character enlarging and reducing rate to a displaying unit () and makes it display them.

Display device, display method, information recording medium and program

To evaluate a game playing performance from a new point of view, a control method for controlling a game machine allowing a player to enjoy stepping while listening to game music, comprises the steps of detecting whether or not the player puts their foot or feet on each of a plurality of step positions; judging, based on a detection result on the step position, according to which, of a plurality of pattern changes, a state of the player's feet relative to the plurality of step positions has changed to; calculating, based on the determined pattern change, an energy consumption amount due to a change of the state of the player's feet; calculating an accumulative energy consumption amount by accumulating an energy consumption amount calculated after a predetermined timing; and reporting the accumulative energy consumption amount calculated to the player.

Game machine, game device control method, information storage medium, game distribution device, and game distribution method

Data link-up between multiple game devices can be more flexibly achieved. A game system ( ) comprises a game device for business ( ) and a game device for use at home ( ), which execute games in accordance with predetermined programs, it being possible to exchange information between these games devices, and the game device for business ( ) comprises an information output device for outputting judgement information for judging whether predetermined conditions have been satisfied in the game device for business ( ). The contents of the game executed on the game device for use at home ( ) are changed based on the judgement information output from the game device for business ( ). For example, when a predetermined game result has been achieved in the game device for business, the content of the judgement information is updated, and a hidden element appears in the game device for use at home ( ) in correspondence therewith.

Game system, game device capable of being used in the game system, and computer-readable memory medium

A music game device is provided in which a player manipulates a manipulation unit in conformity with music. The device includes an input unit for setting play information including a plurality of tunes to be successively played and a play order of the plurality of tunes, a storage unit for collectively storing the play information, an automatic setting changing unit for automatically changing a part of the play information set by the player to a preset standard play information if the play information set by the player includes a setting which cannot be executed by the music game device, and a reproduction unit for successively reproducing the plurality of tunes in the play order based on the play information stored in the storage unit.

Music game device with automatic setting, method for controlling the same, and storage medium therefor

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Nishibori