Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Hal Laboratory, Inc.

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Toshiaki Suzuki

Iwao Masuyama

Akira Tahara

Misaki Hiraga

Yoshiaki Onishi

Satoshi Yamato

Shigefumi Kawase

Kouichi Kawamoto

Akihiro Umehara

Yoshinori Tsuchiyama

Teruhiko Suzuki

Keizo Ohta

Satoshi Nishiumi

Eitaro Nakamura

Usaji Takaki

Shinji Kiyono

Tadahito Nobori

Kazumi Mizutani

Yoshiho Sonobe

Satoru Osako

Takao Shimizu

Masahiro Kouno

Toyokazu Nonaka

Miyuki Hirose

Shuichiro Nishiya

Shinya Takahashi

Shun Hakamada

Takeru Sugimoto

Izumi Fukuda

Rina Wegner

Osamu Tsuchihashi

Shinji Kitahara

Satoshi Kira

Kenichi Masuda

Yuichi Ozaki

Yoji Inagaki

Masaki Tawara

Takuji Hotta

Yuya Kumagai

Kazumi Totaka

Takuya Abe

Nobuhito Koganezawa

Taiju Suzuki

Akira Takara

Zenta Andou

Takashi Nozue

Toshihiko Nakago

Makoto Kimizuka

Toshiyuki Nakamura

Rory Johnson

Kazuhiro Fujiwara

Karin Kawakami

Hayato Minagawa

Atsushi Nakao

Nobuya Wada

A non-limiting example game system includes a main body apparatus, and the main body apparatus performs communication with another main body apparatus in a communication game to play a virtual game. The virtual game is a multiplayer game that a plurality of players compete against each other, and a place of an overall ranking is determined for each player. If a main story of the virtual game is ended, a ranking announcement screen including a ranking message and a praise screen including a praise message are displayed in this order for each place of the overall ranking. The praise message is selected from a praise message table of the first place of the overall ranking and a praise message table except the first place of the overall ranking. The praise message table is set with a praise message corresponding to a praise content, and when determining a praise message for each place of the overall ranking, a praise message already having been determined as a praise message for another player is not redundantly determined.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, storage medium and information processing method

A non-limiting example game system includes a main body apparatus, and this main body apparatus performs communication with another main body apparatus in a communication game to play a virtual game. The virtual game is a multiplayer game that a plurality of players play a game, and after ending a main story of the virtual game, each player evaluates the communication game this time and an opponent player. Evaluation is performed by applauding to an opponent player and oneself. An in-game currency according to a total number of the applause of respective player is obtained, and the total number obtained in the past communication play is further accumulated. The number of selectable titles is increased according to the accumulated total number.

At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, storage medium having stored therein information processing program, and information processing method

An example of an operation device includes an inertial sensor and a vibrator, transmits inertia data based on an output of the inertial sensor to an information processing apparatus, and vibrates the vibrator based on a vibration control signal received from the information processing apparatus. One or more processors of the information processing apparatus execute game processing, and in a predetermined situation in the game processing, cause the vibration control signal for vibrating the vibrator to be output from the information processing apparatus. The one or more processors, based on the inertia data from the operation device, determine whether or not the operation device is moving, and at least under the condition that it is determined that the operation device is not moving, limit the vibration so that the vibrator of the operation device is not vibrated or the vibration is weakened in the predetermined situation.

Game system, storage medium having stored therein game program, information processing apparatus, and game processing method

This game system is provided with a plurality of information processing apparatuses that are capable of communicating with each other and include at least a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus, and a control unit that controls the plurality of information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus includes a first display unit and a first touch panel that detects contact on the first display unit, and the second information processing apparatus includes a second display unit and a second touch panel that detects contact on the second display unit.

Techniques for establishing positional relationship(s) between information processing apparatuses

A first game played by at least one user belonging to a team is executed, and a second game influenced by a result of the first game is executed. Then, at least before the first game is started, when the first game is suspended, or after the first game is ended, a first notification and a second notification for urging the user of the team to perform an operation of moving an entirety of a controller are given, and when the operation of moving the entirety of the controller is performed using the at least one controller operated by the users belonging to the team, and a success condition is satisfied, a game parameter used in the second game is increased or decreased so as to obtain an advantageous effect for the team or the user belonging to the team.

Storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

Regarding game processing, a case where a screen is closer to vertical than a first reference is set to a first mode, and a case where the screen is closer to horizontal than the reference is set to a second mode. Then, in the first mode, a virtual camera is set to a first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which an information image is placed in a first direction is generated. In the second mode, the virtual camera is set to be further downward than the first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which the plurality of information images are placed in different directions is generated.

Game system with virtual camera adjustment based on video output connection status and system orientation, and counterpart storage medium having stored therein game program, game apparatus, and game processing method

From a stored panorama moving image, panorama images are read and sequentially acquired every predetermined time for reproduction on a display device, each of the panorama images being a frame of the panorama moving image. A range to be displayed in a first display area is set in each of the acquired panorama images. A range to be displayed in a second display area is set in each of the acquired panorama images. The respective ranges of the acquired panorama images which are set to be displayed in the first display area are displayed in the first display area. The respective ranges of the acquired panorama images which are set to be displayed in the second display area are displayed in the second display area.

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

Game system with common display spanning multiple reconfigurable apparatuses

Movement amount identifying unitof exemplary game deviceidentifies, for each of characters, a movement amount, based on which a character is moved on a map, the movement amount being randomly determined. Movement processing unitmoves, for each of the characters, a character on the map based on a movement amount determined for the character. Mini-game executing unitexecutes a mini-game on detecting that a first character included in the characters has reached a predetermined first cell on the map. When doing so, mini-game executing unitstarts the mini-game, the first character joining the mini-game from the start of the mini-game, and causes a second character included in the characters to join the mini-game subsequent to the first character with a delay, the second character having failed to reach the first cell as of the start of the mini-game.

Storage medium, information-processing device, information-processing system, and information-processing method for controlling movement of game characters

An example of a display control system displays, on a display device, an image of a three-dimensional space representing a real world or a virtual world. The object is arranged in the three-dimensional space on the basis of a line-of-sight direction determined in the three-dimensional space. In addition, an image in a field-of-view range, determined on the basis of the line-of-sight direction, of the three-dimensional space is displayed on the display device. The display control system arranges the object in either a first control mode in which the object is arranged on a reference plane set in the three-dimensional space or in an area near the reference plane or a second control mode in which the object is arranged away from the area. In addition, the display control system switches between the first control mode and the second control mode in accordance with the line-of-sight direction.

Displaying an object in a panoramic image based upon a line-of-sight direction

A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing incorporates an XY-axis acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration in a X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction and a Z-axis contact switch to detect an acceleration in a Z-axis direction. The sensor and switch detect at least one of an amount (e.g., tilt amount, movement amount, impact amount or the like) and a direction (e.g., tilt direction, movement direction, impact direction or the like) of a change applied to the housing. A simulation program provides simulation such that a state of a game space is changed related to at least one of the amount and direction of the change applied to the housing.

Game system and game information storage medium used for same

An example of an information processing system displays, on a display device, a plurality of panoramic images associated with locations on a map. Here, a predetermined virtual object is set for at least one of the plurality of panoramic images. an information processing systemdetermines one of the locations on the map as a current location based on a user operation. Where the virtual object is set for a panoramic image associated with the current location, the virtual object is placed at a predetermined position of the panoramic image. The information processing systemdisplays, on the display device, an image of a partial area of the panoramic image associated with the current location. A predetermined information process is performed in response to satisfaction of a predetermined condition regarding the virtual object while the panoramic image for which the virtual object is set is displayed.

System and methods for displaying panoramic content

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