Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Lego A/s

Takashi Tezuka

Shigeru Miyamoto

Katsuya Eguchi

Masanobu Sato

Yugo Hayashi

Hiroyuki Kimura

Shigeyuki Asuke

Koichi Hayashida

Hideya Akasaka

Hiroshi Momose

Norihito Ito

Teruki Murakawa

Jonathan B Bennink

Sagahiro Taho

Yusuke Amano

Emi Makiuchi

Haruka Kakinuma

Jonathan Trier

Benjamin Ma

An electronic toy including a sensor for detecting movement, a reader for detecting markers in a proximity of the electronic toy, a user-interface for providing a user-perceptible output, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to control the user-interface responsive to a detected movement and a detected marker, enter an active play state responsive to a first trigger event representative of a start of a play activity, process information about movements detected by the sensor while the processing unit is in the active play state and information about markers detected by the reader while the processing unit is in the active play state to compute a result score associated with the play activity, control the user-interface to provide a user-perceptible output based on the computed result score, and exit the active play state responsive to a second trigger event representative of an end of a play activity.

Interactive toy

Even when a movement command input is not performed from a player, a player character is moved in a predetermined direction in a virtual game space, and a game screen including the player character is scrolled so as to follow movement of the player character. In response to determination being made that a touch operation is detected in a state in which the positional relationship between a predetermined object and the player character satisfies a predetermined condition, the movement direction of the player character is temporarily changed to a direction containing a direction component opposite to the predetermined direction.

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

An example of an information processing device generates a game field for each of a plurality of game stages. The information processing device executes a game process of controlling a player object in response to an operation by a user in a game stage for which the game field has been generated. The information processing device determines whether the user has cleared or failed to clear the game stage. In response to a determination that the user has cleared the game stage, the information processing device starts the game process for a next game stage while maintaining a state of the player object at the time of clearing. On the other hand, in response to a determination that the user has failed to clear the game stage, the information processing device starts the game process for a next game stage.

Storage medium storing game program, information processing system, information processing device, and game processing method

In an action game in which a screen is scrolled in a predetermined direction, a player character is moved in the predetermined direction on a game screen even when a movement command input is not performed from a player. In response to a touch input being detected in a state in which a first predetermined condition is satisfied, the player character is caused to execute a first action and a first point is added.

Game program for selectively executing automatic, manual, and special manual actions, and associated computer-readable storage media, systems, methods, and/or apparatuses

A multi-user video game with communications capabilities allows players to communicate with one another via simulated mail, leaflets and conversations. Different installations of the game on different discrete video game playing platforms may be unique or different depending upon random or other data available at the platform. For example, different installations may have different subsets of characters, different landscapes, or the like. Player characters from one virtual environment or village may visit another virtual environment or village and return home to his or her resident environment or village. Non-player characters may move from one virtual environment or village to another&#x2014;thereby providing an ever-changing variety of characters. Communications between different game playing platforms can be provided via portable memory devices, portable game playing devices, or conventional communications means such as networks.

System for multi-user communications using discrete video game platforms

Manual operation means controls a motion of an operation target character in accordance with operation data outputted from an input device. Automatic motion control means controls the motion of the operation target character in accordance with a series of pieces of operation data which are prepared in advance. Game control means performs a first process when a first condition is satisfied as a result of control of the motion of the operation target character by the manual operation means only in a predetermined interval in a game in progress, performs a second process which is different from the first process when a second condition is satisfied, and executes the first when the control of the motion is performed by the automatic motion control means in at least a part of the interval regardless of whichever condition is satisfied.

Computer readable storage medium having game program stored thereon, game apparatus, and game control method

A game system includes a first game machine which operates according to a first architecture and, a second game machine which operates according to a second architecture different from the first architecture and has a processing capability lower than that of the first game machine. A game information storage medium stores, in addition to a first game program executable on the first game machine, a second game program executable on the second game machine and an emulator program that converts the second architecture into the first architecture. When a predetermined condition is satisfied while a first game according to the first game program is being executed on the first game machine, it is possible to execute a second game according to the second game program using the emulator program.

Game information storage medium and game system using the same

Method and apparatus for multi-user communications using discrete video game platforms

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Kyoto, Japan

Takashi Tezuka