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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
Hiroshi Kawai, Honolulu, HI (US);
Takayuki Niwa, Honolulu, HI (US);
Square Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.