Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-10-09
2011-12-06
Laneau, Ronald (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Reexamination Certificate
active
08070573
ABSTRACT:
A video game apparatus has a memory for storing two or more tasks which a player character can get instructed character(s) to execute according to a scenario development of a game, means for displaying tasks at a time when a scenario development of a game reaches a predetermined position so as to be selected by the player, means for determining candidate characters which can participate the task selected by the player and for displaying these so as to be selectable by the player, means for determining the character selected by the player as participant character, and means for executing the task according to a parameter which is set on the participant character on the basis of the participant character and the selected task.
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Shiraishi Fumiaki
Yuji Kenichiro
Duane Morris LLP
Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
Laneau Ronald
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