Square Co., Ltd.

Takayuki Niwa

Yasuo Kuwahara

Hiroshi Kawai

A player operates an input device causing a player character to move on a map including a plurality of encountering areas where the player character encounters an enemy character. An encounter setting value set for each one of the encountering areas where the player character encounters the enemy character is stored in a memory. The player character encounters the enemy character in a probability corresponding to the encounter setting value when it steps into an encountering area, and then processing for a battle held between the player character and the enemy character is performed. When the player character wins the battle against the enemy character, the encounter setting value for the area is updated, so that the probability that the player character encounters the enemy character sequentially decreases.

Video game apparatus, video game method and storage medium

A memory area in a video game apparatus stores items owned by a character and item values corresponding to the items respectively. Fundamental data and up-date data which is copy of the fundamental data are stored as the item data. When an instruction of item &ldquo;tune-up&rdquo; is input through an input section, a control unit controls a display device to display a list of the items owned by the character. Of the listed items, a first item to be enhanced and a second item to be used for enhancing the first item are both designated. In response to the designation, the control unit reads item values of the designated first and second items from the memory for update. The control unit calculates a new item value of the first item based on the read item values, and the new item value is stored in the memory as up-date data.

Video game item's value being adjusted by using another item's value

When a character (player character) moving in accordance with a player operation reaches a predetermined position on a map, battle processing between the player character and enemy characters is done. In such battle processing, a player can instruct the player character to escape from a battle against the enemy characters. In such a case where the player character is instructed to escape from the battle, it is determined that the instructed escape either succeeds or fails, in accordance with probabilities of success in escaping in which the probabilities are pre-stored in a manner corresponding to the number of times an instruction to escape has been given. The probability of success in escaping can vary depending on various factors, such as the difference in level values of the player character and the enemy characters or other predetermined parameter value regarding the player character.

In a scene of a role-playing game in which the player character, whose actions are controlled by a player, fights with an enemy with one of a variety of items such as weapons, a video game device selects one item in accordance with a player's operation. The video game device obtains an effective range such as a shooting range which has been predetermined for the selected item, and displays this effective range as a hemispherical wire frame model or the like, positioning the center of the effective range at the position of the player character. The player judges the effectiveness of an attack from the displayed wire frame model. A hitting probability, the effect attained when the player attacks the enemy, such as a damage imparted on the enemy, differs depending on whether the enemy is located within the wire frame or not.

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Honolulu, HI, United States of America

Takayuki Niwa