Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – With communication link
Reexamination Certificate
2001-07-27
2004-08-10
Mancene, Gene (Department: 3754)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
With communication link
C700S091000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06773350
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a game system, game providing method, and information recording medium, and in particular, to technology for providing a game to players based on real data or the like which changes with time reflecting phenomena that occur in real life, such as, for example, stock price data.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, various game software are known which feature stock trade. In such game software, the stock price data for the game is either pre-provided or produced in real time through a predetermined algorithm. The stock price data is then used as an evaluation criterion for the stock asset virtually owned by the players in the game space.
However, in the conventional game software, the stock price data for the game is merely a simulation of the real life stock price data, and the stock trade based on such stock price data is actually completely fictitious. Because of this, it has been difficult to really attract the interest of players.
This problem is not unique to game software relating to stock trade. For example, game software which features venture trade such as an exchange trade, a futures trade, an estate trade, and an option trade and game software in which the game result or progress of a sport such as baseball or soccer is predicted, suffer the same problem.
In order to handle such a problem, it is possible to consider a solution in which a game is provided to the players based on real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena that occur in real life (for example, the real life stock price data). However, this solution further develops the following problem. If the players compete for evaluation (such as, for example, total assets), a player who has been playing the game for a longer period of time will be given an advantage, and thus, there will be less fun for the players who join the game at a later time. If, on the other hand, a “local a system” is employed in which the game is reset at predetermined intervals, a problem occurs in which the timing to participate in a game will be limited. This problem is not unique to providing a game based on real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena that occur in real life, but also occurs in a case where a game is provided to a plurality of players based on common data which changes with time.
The present invention is perceived to solve the above mentioned problem, and one object of the present invention is to provide a game to players based on real data which changes with time reflecting the phenomena that occur in real life, and to provide a game system, a game processing method, and an information recording medium which can increase the fun level of the game.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a game system, a game processing method, and an information recording medium, in which a game can be provided to each of a plurality of players based on common data which changes with time, with less limitation on the time of participating in the game and in which a player can compete for evaluation regardless of the elapsed time of the game.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
(1) In order to solve at least some of the problems mentioned above, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a game system for providing a game to players based on real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena occurring in real life, the system comprising: real data obtaining means for obtaining the real data; current condition data storing means for storing the current condition data which represents the current condition of the players in a game corresponding to real life; and current condition evaluating means for evaluating the current condition data based on the real data obtained by the real data obtaining means.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a game providing method comprising: a real data obtaining step for obtaining real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena occurring in real life; a current condition data storing. step for storing the current condition data, which represents the current condition of the players in a game corresponding to real life, in a storing medium; and a current condition evaluating step for evaluating the current condition data based on the real data obtained at the real data obtaining step.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information recording medium for recording a program which causes a computer to execute: a real data obtaining step for obtaining real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena occurring in real life; a current condition data storing step for storing the current condition data, which represents the current condition of the players in a game corresponding to real life, in a storing medium; and a current condition evaluating step for evaluating the current condition data based on the real data obtained at the real data obtaining step.
In the present invention, real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena occurring in real life, such as, for example, various market price data including stock price, real estate, exchange, and futures market, result or progress data of a sport, or weather data is obtained. A game space(virtual space)is provided corresponding to real life. Current condition data which represents the current condition of the player in the game space is stored. The current condition data is updated, for example, based on the game manipulation input by the players. The current condition data is evaluated according to the obtained real data. In this manner, a game can be provided to players based on real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena occurring in real life, and thus, the fun level of the game can be increased.
According to another aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the current condition data is evaluated based on the most recent real data which is already obtained. In this manner, prediction in the real data which is used as the basis for evaluation becomes difficult, and thus, the fun level of the game can be further increased.
According to another aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the real data is market price data (such as, for example, stock price data) related to a venture target, the current condition data is data representing the venture target (such as, for example, stocks) virtually owned by the players in the game space, and the game system is configured as a virtual venture trading game system (such as, for example, a virtual stock trade game). In this manner, an attractive virtual stock trading game system based on the real life market price data can be provided.
(2) According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a game system for providing a game to each of a plurality of players based on real data which changes with time reflecting phenomena occurring in real life, the system comprising: real data obtaining means for obtaining the real data; game participation receiving means for receiving game participation at an arbitrary timing from each of a plurality of players; current condition data storing means for storing the current condition data which represents the current condition of each player in a game space corresponding to real life; current condition evaluating means for evaluating the current condition data for each player based on the real data obtained by the real data obtaining means; efficiency information producing means for producing efficiency information for a player whose evaluation of the current condition data satisfies a predetermined condition, the efficiency information representing the efficiency of the player until the predetermined condition is satisfied by the evaluation for the current condition data for the player; and efficiency informing means for informing at least some of the plurality of players, of information based on the efficiency information produced by the efficiency information producing means;
Mishina Yoshinori
Tanaka Yoshihiro
Yoshimi Tetsuya
Konami Corporation
Mancene Gene
Nicolas Frederick C.
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
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