Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-19
2011-04-19
Bumgarner, Melba (Department: 3718)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
C463S009000, C463S030000, C463S031000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07927202
ABSTRACT:
It is an object that a normally selectable command or a command for specifying an appropriate action in accordance with the state of a player character can be easily selected through a simple operation by a player. In a command control process, at least one normal action specifying command for specifying a normal action that the player character can normally carry out is selectably displayed; at least one local action specifying command for specifying a local action that the player character can locally carry out in accordance with a state of the player character and corresponds to the state of the player character is selectably displayed when the player character becomes the corresponding state; and an action of the player character is controlled in response to the command selected, through operation by the player, from the displayed at least one normal action specifying command and the displayed at least one local action specifying command.
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Kanemori Yuichi
Shiokawa Yosuke
Bumgarner Melba
Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Kabushiki Kaisha Square ENIX
Yoo Jasson H
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