IP Library Granted Patent US 12,285,682
Granted Patent B2
US 12,285,682 · App. 17/945,302 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, storage medium and information processing method

Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki (Kyoto, JP); Misaki Hiraga (Kyoto, JP); Rina Wegner (Tokyo, JP); Hayato Minagawa (Tokyo, JP); Takeru Sugimoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
A63F13/533A63F13/44A63F13/69A63F13/798
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Patent No.
US 12,285,682
App. No.
17/945,302
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A non-limiting example game system includes a main body apparatus, and this main body apparatus performs communication with another main body apparatus in a communication game to play a virtual game. The virtual game is a multiplayer game that a plurality of players play a game, and after ending a main story of the virtual game, each player evaluates the communication game this time and an opponent player. Evaluation is performed by applauding to an opponent player and oneself. An in-game currency according to a total number of the applause of respective player is obtained, and the total number obtained in the past communication play is further accumulated. The number of selectable titles is increased according to the accumulated total number.

Claims (40)

1. An information processing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory configured to store computer readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the information processing system to:

perform a multiplayer game including a game part, where a game is advanced based on inputs of a plurality of players, and an evaluation part where each of the plurality of players, participating in the game, performs an evaluation input, indicating an evaluation related to the game part, after completing the game part;

update a common parameter based on a total amount of the evaluation inputs from respective players, participating in the game, in the evaluation part;

update, using the common parameter in the multiplayer game, an individual parameter that indicates an accumulated value of the common parameter in a past multiplayer game and is associated with each of the plurality of players; and

sequentially generate a game image of the multiplayer game to output to a display.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the evaluation input is input with at least three steps of values.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the system is further caused to change, in the evaluation part, a drawing object corresponding to an image included in the game image according to at least one of the evaluation input and the common parameter.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3 , wherein a first drawing object out of the drawing object is changed according to a change of the common parameter.

5. The information processing system according to claim 3 , wherein the aa second drawing object out of the drawing object corresponding to each player is changed at every time that the evaluation input is performed.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein an image for each player indicating a total amount of the evaluation input that is input from each of the respective players is not displayed at a time that the evaluation input is performed.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the individual parameter is updated so that the individual parameters for all the players are changed with the same amount based on the common parameter.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the common parameter is updated according to the total amount of the evaluation inputs of the respective players while adding a supplement amount.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the system is further caused to provide a first reward to each player according to the common parameter.

10. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the system is further caused to provide a second reward to each player according to the individual parameter.

11. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein a display is performed so that the players become equal to each other regardless of a result of the game part at a time that the evaluation input is performed.

12. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein when a non-player object participates in the multiplayer game, the common parameter due to the non-player object in the evaluation part is not updated.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein an upper limit in time that each player performs the evaluation input is set.

14. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the multiplayer game is an online game played by being randomly matched with another player being not pre-registered.

15. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein a display indicating applause in a game screen is performed in response to the evaluation input.

16. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a display; and

processing circuitry operatively coupled to the display, wherein the processing circuitry includes one or more processors, and the processing circuitry is configured to:

perform a multiplayer game including a game part, where a game is advanced based on inputs of a plurality of players, and an evaluation part, where each of the plurality of players evaluates, after completing the game part, at least one of the game part and respective players participating in the game part;

update a common parameter based on an amount of evaluation inputs from the respective players, participating in the game, in the evaluation part;

update, based on the common parameter, an individual parameter that is associated with each of the respective players and to be continuously used in next and subsequent multiplayer games; and

sequentially generate a game image of the multiplayer game to output to the display.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program executable by one or more processors of an information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing program, when executed, is configured to cause the one or more processors to execute operations comprising:

performing a multiplayer game including a game part, where a game is advanced based on inputs of a plurality of players, and an evaluation part where each of the plurality of players, participating in the game, evaluates, after completing the game part, at least one of the game part and respective players participating in the game part;

updating a common parameter based on an amount of evaluation inputs from the respective players, participating in the game, in the evaluation part;

updating, based on the common parameter, an individual parameter that is associated with each of the respective players and to be continuously used in next and subsequent multiplayer games; and

sequentially generating a game image of the multiplayer game to output to a display.

18. An information processing method executable by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

performing a multiplayer game including a game part, where a game is advanced based on inputs of a plurality of players, and an evaluation part where each of the plurality of players, participating in the game, evaluates, after completing the game part, at least one of the game part and respective players participating in the game part;

updating a common parameter based on an amount of evaluation inputs from the respective players, participating in the game, in the evaluation part;

updating, based on the common parameter, an individual parameter that is associated with each of the respective players and to be continuously used in next and subsequent multiplayer games; and

sequentially generating a game image of the multiplayer game to output to a display.

19. The information processing system of claim 1 , wherein the game image includes a ranking announcement screen and a praise screen.

20. The information processing system of claim 19 , wherein the praise screen includes one or more praise messages for the players participating in the game.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2022
From: SUZUKI, TOSHIAKI; HIRAGA, MISAKI; WEGNER, RINA; MINAGAWA, HAYATO; SUGIMOTO, TAKERU
To: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-152859 · Sep 21, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230092842A1 · Mar 23, 2023
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