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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2017
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Katsuhisa Sato, Kyoto, JP;
NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A non-limiting example game system includes a game apparatus, and a terminal device and a television are connected to the game apparatus. A game image to be displayed on the television is an image that various kinds of objects arranged in a virtual space are imaged by a virtual camera. A determination object of a three-dimensional shape in a traveling direction of a player object is sequentially moved from a start position that differs for each time to a target position that is decided according to a predetermined rule, and terrain (inclination and height of the ground) in the traveling direction of the player object based on a principal component analysis of a plurality of positions that the determination object collides with a terrain object is determined.