IP Library Granted Patent US 11,752,437
Granted Patent B2
US 11,752,437 · App. 17/238,125 · Granted Sep 12, 2023

Method for providing battle game, server device, and computer-readable recording medium

Inventor: Yoshiyuki Higo (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: GREE, INC.
A63F13/822A63F13/42A63F13/332A63F2300/206
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Patent No.
US 11,752,437
App. No.
17/238,125
Granted
Sep 12, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

User-involved battle development with strategic or tactical elements in a game is enabled. A method, implemented in a computer including a control unit, for providing a battle game in which a user repeatedly attacks and defends against an opponent using a plurality of objects placed in a plurality of areas arranged in a matrix, includes: a selection step of causing the user to select an area from the plurality of areas, and holding the area which has been already selected as a selected area; a first execution step of causing an object placed in the selected area, to execute a first action; a determination step of determining whether or not a combination of an already selected area and the currently selected area matches at least one line which is any of a row, a column, and a diagonal of the matrix; and a second execution step of causing an object to execute a second action, in the case where the determination step determines that the combination matches the at least one line.

Claims (22)

1. A method for controlling a display in a battle game between a first user and a second user using a plurality of first areas for the first user and a plurality of second areas for the second user, the method being performed by at least one processor, the method comprising:

arranging one or more first objects on a first deck for the first user comprising the plurality of first areas, any one of a plurality of predetermined identification numbers being set on each of the plurality of first areas, each of the first objects occupying one or more areas among the plurality of first areas;

arranging one or more second objects on a second deck for the second user comprising the plurality of second areas, any one of the plurality of predetermined identification numbers being set on each of the plurality of second areas, each of the second objects occupying one or more areas among the plurality of second areas; and

executing a plurality of turns for a side of the tut user and a plurality of turns for a side of the second user,

wherein each turn for the side of the first user comprises:

selecting, in response to an operation from the first user, a first identification number among the predetermined identification numbers,

by a first object among the first objects, the first object occupying a first area among the plurality of first areas, the first identification number being set to the first area, taking a first action,

setting the first area and a second area among the plurality of the second areas to selected status, the first identification number being set to the second area, and

when an arrangement of the first area, set to the selected status, satisfies a first pattern, by the first object that took, the first action, further taking a second action different from the first action,

wherein each turn for the side of the second user comprises:

selecting, in response to an operation from the second user, a second identification number among, the predetermined identification numbers;

taking a third action by a second object among the second objects, the second object occupying a second area among the plurality cd second areas, the second identification number being set to the second area;

setting the second area and a first area among the plurality of the first areas to selected status, the second identification number being set to the first area;

determining whether an arrangement of the second area, set to the selected status, satisfies a second pattern; and

further taking a fourth action different from the second action, by the second object that took the second action, when the determining determines that the arrangement of the second area, set to the selected status, satisfies the second pattern.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first arrangement of the plurality of predetermined identification numbers, set on each of the plurality of first areas of the first deck, is different from a second arrangement of the plurality of predetermined identification numbers set on each of the plurality of second areas of the second deck.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein

in each turns for the side of the first user, a second parameter of the second object varies due to the first action and/or the second action, and when the second parameter after varied satisfies a first condition, a second area among the plurality of second areas is set to the selected status, the second area being occupied by the second object, and

in each turns for the side of the second user, a first parameter of the first object varies due to the third action and/or the fourth action, and when the first parameter alter varied satisfies a second condition, a first area among the plurality of first areas is set to the selected status, the first area being occupied by the first object.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising setting at least one first area among the plurality of first areas and at least one second area among the plurality of second areas to the selected status before conducting the plurality of turns for the side of the first user and the plurality of turns for the side of the second user.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation from the first user is an operation to specifying at least one of the predetermined plurality of identification numbers.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation from the first user is an operation to specifying at least one area of the plurality of first areas, thereby at least one identification number, set to the at least one area, is selected.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY STREET ADDRESS AND ATTORNEY DOCKET NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 71308 FRAME: 765. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jun 10, 2025
From: GREE, INC.
To: GREE HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 071611/0252 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 16, 2025
From: GREE, INC.
To: GREE HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 071308/0765 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2013-108368 · May 22, 2013 · national
JP 2014-059708 · Mar 24, 2014 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15929109 · Feb 26, 2019
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