Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Yusaku Shimizu

Yosuke Oshino

Hideki Fujii

Masato Mizuta

Koji Sakai

Kazunobu Shimizu

Haruka Kakinuma

Satoko Higashi

In accordance with a placement operation of a user, a part including at least one connection direction can be placed in a first placement direction in a virtual space that is a two-dimensional space including a plurality of square grid divisions, the part being square, and in accordance with a rotation operation of the user, and the part can be changed so that the part is placed in a second placement direction. Then, in accordance with a placement position in the virtual space where the part is placed in the virtual space, the first placement direction when the part is newly placed in the virtual space is determined by rotating the part to be placed in each of the square grid divisions by 90 degrees each time.

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

An example of an information processing apparatus causes an object displayed on a display device to move based on a drag operation performed by a user. The information processing apparatus acquires input coordinates of the drag operation performed on the object. The information processing apparatus calculates a change amount of the input coordinates from when the drag operation has been started. The object moves based on the input coordinates during the drag operation. The information processing apparatus causes the object to move while performing a correction to make the object away from the input coordinates so that a distance between the input coordinates and coordinates of the object becomes larger in a case where the change amount is large than in a case where the change amount is small.

Storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method for determining a correction offset for a dragged object

An example of an information processing apparatus places, as a component object to be used for collision detection, a slope object having a unit portion in a virtual space. An image representing the virtual space in which the component object is placed is generated. The information processing apparatus places a first slope object having one unit portion in the virtual space, based on a first instruction of the user. The unit portion has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first side and a second side that form an interior angle being an acute angle. The information processing apparatus places a second slope object in the virtual space. The second slope object has a continuous unit portion in which a plurality of the unit portions are connected such that a plurality of the first sides thereof are connected to form a single side.

An example of a game system includes an operation section, and a vibrating portion provided in the same casing as the operation section. The game system performs a game process based on an output from the operation section. The game system outputs, to the vibrating portion, a vibration signal to cause the vibrating portion to produce a series of vibrations at predetermined points in time during the game process. The game system evaluates a game operation based on operations performed using the operation section in relation to the predetermined points in time.

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Yusaku Shimizu