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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2014
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Example systems and methods relate to playing a multi-player video game in which multiple players each supply inputs to a respective input device to control a corresponding game character in a game world displayed on a display screen. Movements of each game character in the game world are controlled in accordance with respective first game character control operations during the playing of the multi-player video game. In response to satisfaction of one or more conditions, one player's game character is protected from harm in the game world, wherein one of the one or more conditions is a condition triggered voluntarily by the one player. Movements of the protected game character in the game world are controlled based on a position of another, unprotected game character.