JP3147888B2 - Game device and computer-readable recording medium - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game apparatus having a physical strength meter (also referred to as a physical strength gauge) whose remaining meter amount changes in accordance with a play performed by a player.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a game apparatus provided with a physical strength meter has been known. In such a game device, the physical strength meter decreases when the player performs an incorrect operation, and increases when the player performs an accurate operation. Further, when the number of incorrect operations increases and the meter amount held at the start of the game becomes zero, the game may end at that time even during the game time.

[0003]

By the way, in a game device provided with a physical strength meter, a player plays a game while watching the physical strength meter. Therefore, there is a margin in the remaining meter amount of the physical fitness meter as soon as the game starts, so that the play becomes ample play. When the remaining meter amount of the physical fitness meter decreases, the game is an exciting play in which the game is not ended. However, since the player plays the exciting play only after the player recognizes that the remaining meter amount of the physical strength meter has decreased, the conventional apparatus has a problem that the time for performing the exciting play is extremely short. Was.

[0004] The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and has as its object to provide a game device that allows the user to enjoy an exciting play for a long time.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a game device according to the present invention comprises an operation judging means for judging an operation of a player, and a physical strength for outputting an increase / decrease value according to a result of the operation judging means. comprising a decrease table, the physical strength value calculating means for calculating the strength value from decreasing value output from the physical fitness decrease table, and display means for displaying the meter volume based on the strength value, a, calculated by the strength calculating means Physical strength
When obtaining the meter amount from the value, if the physical strength value is larger than a predetermined value, the meter amount for the increase or decrease of the physical strength value
So that the manner of increase or decrease is large, the strength value is a predetermined value or less
Sometimes below the meter the amount of increase and decrease with respect to increasing or decreasing the strength value
It is characterized in that the way to control to be less.

[0006] Further, according to the present invention, a computer reading device
Possible recording media determine player's operationfunction
And an increase / decrease value according to the result of the determination function.Physical strength increase / decrease
Using bullOutput increase / decreasefunctionAnd said increase or decreasefunctionOutput with
Physical fitness value calculation that calculates the physical fitness value from the increased / decreased valuefunctionWhen,
The physical strength value is a predetermined valueWhen greaterIs the increase or decrease in physical fitness
How to increase or decrease the meter amount forManySo that
Physical strength value is a predetermined valuebelowSometimesPhysical fitnessIncrease or decreaseAgainst
How to increase or decrease the meter amountButLessBecomeIn addition, the physical fitness value
Function to obtain meter amount from physical strength value calculated by calculation function
When,The mailIndication to display the data amountfunctionAnd the computer
It records the program to be realized by the
You.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS [Configuration of Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG.
1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a game device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which (a) is a front view and (b) is a right side view. The game device of the present embodiment includes a main body 10 provided with a control unit 1 and the like, and an electronic guitar 20 as input means. The main body 10 has a 29-inch display 11.
And two kinds of loudspeakers 12 for treble and bass, an operation unit 13 in which various operation buttons are arranged, and spotlights 15 provided on both sides of a signboard at the top.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the electronic guitar 20. As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic guitar 20 includes twelve fret switches 21 using a pressure sensor, one string switch 22, a mute switch 23 using a pressure sensor,
And an arm 24 with a volume. The fret switch 21 corresponds to a portion separated by frets, which is a projection that separates the surface of a rod-shaped base plate that holds a string with an actual guitar, and the string switch 22 corresponds to a bullet portion of a guitar. is there. In the electronic guitar shown in FIG. 2, for convenience of description, fret switches are numbered from 1 to 12 in order from the right. Further, the fifth fret switch has, for example, a small projection formed thereon so as to be understood by touching with a finger. The mute switch 23 is for simulating an actual guitar mute playing style. After playing the string switch, the sound can be stopped by pressing the mute switch with the palm of the right hand, and by playing the string switch while pressing the mute switch, a mute playing technique similar to that of an actual guitar is possible. When the player presses the mute switch, the range of timbres is expanded, and the feeling of playing the electronic guitar can be made closer to the real thing. The arm 24 is a tremolo arm for applying vibrato to the sound.
By applying vibrato at an arbitrary timing, the player can assert himself in the same manner as a real guitar. When the player presses the fret switch and plays the string switch, the chord corresponding to the pressed fret switch is reproduced from the speaker of the main unit. That is, in the present game device, the player presses the fret switch and plays the string switch, thereby reproducing the same sound of six strings as the actual guitar, so that even a beginner can easily play a difficult chord on the guitar. it can.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the string switch 22 of the electronic guitar 20. The string switch 22 is rotatable as shown in FIG. 3, and its movement is transmitted to an analog volume (string volume), and the amount of movement that has been played is converted to a digital value and sent to the control unit 1. Can be Assuming that the neutral part is 0, data of a fluctuation range as shown by an arrow in FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the output of the chord volume, in which the horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents output values. The control unit 1 uses this data to
The timing at which the player performed is determined, and the sound is reproduced. By the way, assuming that the strings of a real guitar are played, first, as shown in FIG. 5, a string is applied to a finger to generate tension. The finger then releases the tension on the string, producing a sound. Then, the strings return. Thus, a real guitar emits sound through three processes. FIG. 6A shows these three processes by the operation of the string switch 22. The operation of the string switch 22 is transmitted to the string volume, and the output of the string volume is displaced as shown in FIG. This displacement is sent to the control unit 1 as multi-valued data that is further carved every 1/60 second. In a conventional device using a guitar as an input means, a sound is generated at the following timing. However, in such a method, the timing at which the sound is generated is different from the sound generation timing of the sound on the actual guitar, so that the player feels strange. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the control unit 1 calculates a difference between the transmitted multi-valued data and the latest data for each data, and reproduces a sound when the difference becomes negative. . That is, in the present embodiment, since the sound is reproduced at a timing close to the actual timing of the guitar, it is possible to give the player the same feeling as when actually playing the guitar.

Also, in an actual guitar, when a string is played from top to bottom and when the string is pulled from bottom to top, the sound output is different. Therefore, when the string switch is played from top to bottom, Different sounds may be reproduced when playing from the bottom up. In the present embodiment, this playing style does not affect the score, and does not give a performance instruction to that effect. Of course, the display of the rendition style may be performed and points may be added to the score.

FIG. 7 is a control block diagram of the present embodiment. The electronic guitar 20 includes a pressure-sensitive sensor 21a provided on a fret switch, an analog-to-digital converter 21b for binarizing an output value of the pressure-sensitive sensor with a predetermined threshold value, and a 4-bit signal from each analog-to-digital converter. , A string volume 22 a that moves in conjunction with the string switch 22, an arm volume 24 a that moves in conjunction with the arm 24, and a pressure sensor 23 a provided in the mute switch 23. And an analog-to-digital converter 23b for converting the analog signal into a digital signal at a predetermined threshold. Fret switch 21
There is no point in holding down two or more places. When the player presses the fret switch 21 at two or more places, it is sufficient to reproduce the sound of the fret switch near the base side. Therefore, in order to indicate from 0, in which the fret switch is not pressed, to 12, in which one of the fret switches is pressed, 0 to 12 need only be identified. Therefore, the data width of the output of the encoding converter 21c is 4 bits. I just need.

The main unit 10 includes an amplifier 4 in addition to the control unit 1.
And a display 29 and the like. The control unit 1 includes a ROM 1c in which a game control program is stored, and a RAM 1 that temporarily stores various input data, calculation results, and the like.
b, a CP that controls the entire game by reading and executing a control program stored in the ROM 1c.
The system includes a system board 2 having a U1a, a sound source 1d, and an input / output board 3. Data from the chord volume 22a and the arm volume 24a are sent to the input / output board as multi-value data, and data from the encode converter 21c and the analog-to-digital converter 23b are sent to the input / output board as binary data. The CPU 1a reads out the control program recorded in the ROM 1c and generates a screen to be displayed on a display based on various data sent from the electronic guitar. In the present embodiment, a score object and a character whose rubber ball is jumping (hereinafter, also simply referred to as a ball character) are displayed on the screen. The CPU 1a sends data to the sound source 1d to instruct reproduction of a sound. The sound source 1d samples and stores the sound of playing the actual guitar chord in advance, and reproduces the corresponding guitar sound in accordance with the instruction of the CPU 1a. Therefore, by operating the fret switch 21 and the string switch 22 of the electronic guitar 20, the player can play the chord of the guitar and enjoy the reproduced sound of the guitar.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for recognizing that a string switch has been hit. In step S1, the value of the string volume and the speed of change are monitored. While monitoring the string volume, it is determined whether or not the absolute value of the string volume is equal to or greater than the reference value (step S2). If it is equal to or less than the reference value, there is no need to emit a sound, and the process returns to step S1. If it is equal to or greater than the reference value, the process proceeds to step S3, and it is determined whether or not the rate of change of the string volume is equal to or greater than the reference value. If the speed of the change is equal to or less than the reference value, for example, if the strings are slowly changed, no sound is produced even with an actual guitar, so even in the present embodiment, the process returns to step S1 without reproducing the sound. Continue monitoring. By the judgment of step S3,
When the value of the string volume changes at a speed equal to or higher than the reference value, the process proceeds to step S4, and it is determined whether or not the change in the value of the string volume has reversed from increasing to decreasing. If it is not inverted, the process returns to step S1, and if it is inverted, the sound source 1 reproduces the sound corresponding to the pressed fret.
d.

[Method of Performing] Next, a method of performing using the electronic guitar with the present game apparatus will be described. Operation unit 1
With the selection buttons provided in 3, select whether to play alone or two people, and press the game start button. When the play by one person is selected, the screen shown in FIG. 9 is displayed on the display, and when the play by two persons is selected, the screen shown in FIG. 10 is displayed on the display. In the following, for simplicity, the description will be made with reference to a screen when playing alone, but the same method can be used when playing with two people.

On the screen shown in FIG. 9, a musical score object 30, a timing line 31, and a ball character 32 are
The picture 33 of the electronic guitar is in the center and the fitness meter 34 is in the lower part.
Is displayed. The musical score object 30 is drawn so as to resemble the surface of a guitar-like base plate, and has a narrow portion 3
0a is a portion indicating the beginning of a sound, and an area 30b is a portion for displaying a fret switch that the player wants to press. For convenience of explanation, the narrow portion 30a is referred to as a fret image portion. The numerical value assigned to the fret image section corresponds to the number of the fret switch of the electronic guitar.
Each region 30b corresponds to a guitar chord. The score object is scroll-displayed by the CPU from the left side to the right side of the screen. Each of the twelve fret switches displayed in the electronic guitar picture 33 is actually
They are color coded in different colors for easy viewing. The fitness meter 34 decreases when the player performs an erroneous performance, and increases when the player performs an accurate performance with good timing. Fitness meter 3
When 4 becomes zero, the game is over.

FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of a musical score object for explaining the performance timing. The player presses the fret switch specified by the score object scroll-displayed from right to left on the screen, and flicks the string switch at the moment when the fret image portion of each area of the score object overlaps the timing line. In the state of FIG. 11A, the numeral 5 is attached to the fret image portion, and the fifth region is displayed in a color corresponding to the fret (in FIG. 11, hatched), so that the player has 5 Press the second fret switch with your finger. The screen is scrolled, and the string switch is played at the moment when the fifth fret image portion overlaps the timing line as shown in FIG. If the wrong fret switch is pressed or played at the wrong timing, the health meter decreases, and when the health meter becomes zero, the game is over at that point. If a song is played before the physical fitness meter runs out, the stage is cleared and the next song can be played. Further, in the present embodiment, the fret to be pressed is not only specified by the musical score object, but also as shown in FIG.
3 is indicated by placing a triangle mark near the corresponding fret. This allows even beginners to easily play difficult guitar chords. In addition,
In the present embodiment, when the player presses the wrong fret switch and plays the string switch, a wrong sound is produced.

In this embodiment, an object of a color corresponding to the fret pressed by the player may be displayed. Thereby, the player can easily confirm whether or not the fret pressed by the player is correct.

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of a musical score object for explaining release. In the present game device, the concept of "sound length" is introduced. The released sound can be cut off by releasing the fret switch being pressed, newly pressing the fret switch inside the fret switch being pressed, or pressing the mute button. FIG. 12A shows a state in which the fret image portion and the timing line overlap, and in this state, the player plays the string switch. Thereby, a sound is reproduced.
If the finger is pressed down to the state shown in FIG. Then, when the fret switch is released when the timing line is located at the end of the area as shown in (c), the reproduction ends. You may make it reflect the good and bad hands of this release on a fitness meter.

[Rhythm Acquisition Technique] Next, a technique for teaching a rhythm to a player will be described. In a conventional game device for performing a performance, a player who cannot take a rhythm is merely informed of a mistake. For this reason, the player did not know how to improve. Therefore,
In the present embodiment, a display that makes it easy for the player to take a rhythm and a method of informing the player of the mistake to raise the ambition to improve are devised.

In the present embodiment, in order to make it easier for the player to take the timing, on the screen, a place where it is easy to enter the field of view of the player, in the example shown in FIG. indicate. If this bouncing ball is programmed to move up and down in a parabola as shown in FIG. 13 according to the law of nature, the player can easily take a rhythm. In FIG. 13, the horizontal axis indicates time, and the vertical axis indicates the position of the ball character. The movement of this ball is reasonable even in light of the orchestra's conducting method. Character of the ball is repeated up and down movement according to the equation ^{y = -at 2 + bt (a} > 0,0 <t <b / a). The player can play the string switch with good timing by playing the string switch at the timing when the ball character is at the bottom while watching the ball character. As a result, even a beginner can easily perform a guitar performance that matches the rhythm.

Next, a method for causing the player to recognize a rhythm error will be described. FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining a method of transmitting a rhythm error to a player. When the player presses the fifth fret switch and flicks the string switch, if the timing is earlier than the correct timing, the character “fast” is displayed near the fifth area, and the player further flicks. The timing is displayed as a triangle on the left side of the fret image part, depending on the degree of the advance, separated from the fret image part. If the played timing is later than the correct timing, the character "slow" is displayed, and the player's played timing is moved to the right side of the fret image area with a triangle and separated from the fret area according to the degree of delay. To display. In the case shown in FIG.
Since the timing of pressing the fret switch was earlier, a triangle mark is displayed on the left side of the fifth fret image section. As described above, if the player can recognize whether the rhythm played by the player is fast or slow, the player can easily correct the rhythm with the next sound. In addition, by telling the player whether the rhythm is fast or slow, the player is presented with a path for improvement, and thus an ambition is created. Further, since the player can know "how fast or late", the correction width can be known, and the ambition can be further stimulated.

[Glue Evaluation Method] Next, a glue evaluation method will be described. In general, when evaluating good rhythm, only the degree of deviation from the absolute time axis with respect to the absolute time axis is evaluated. However, there is a thing called "slip" in music, and there is a limit in evaluating a player's sense of rhythm by a general evaluation method. For example, for an absolute rhythm that is a reference,
When three players play as shown in FIG. 15, the general evaluation method is (player 1) = (player 2) <
(Player 3). However, the player 2 is carving a stable rhythm, and if there is only a deviation from the given absolute rhythm (such a performance is referred to as “backward”), if the player 2 wants to evaluate more musically, For example, (player 1) <(player 2) = (player 3) should be evaluated. In the present embodiment, in order to evaluate the “slip” portion, statistics of “how much deviation” is taken with respect to the absolute rhythm. "Nori" is evaluated by giving a bonus score so that the smaller the variance thereof, the higher the score. FIG. 16 is a diagram showing statistics of how much the music piece is shifted, and showing the result. The horizontal axis in FIG. 16 shows the timing shift, and the vertical axis shows the number of times. In the case shown in FIG. 3A, the performance is a so-called “pre-slit”, and a high score is given to such a player. In the case shown in FIG. 3B, the rhythm is taken at the correct timing, and a high score is given as in the conventional case. In the case shown in FIG. 3C, the performance is called so-called after gluing, and also in this case, a high score is given. In the case shown in FIG. 3D, the rhythm is taken out of pieces, and a low score is given to the player who has performed such a performance.

Next, a specific method of the glue evaluation will be described. In the game according to the present embodiment, the screen is switched in 1/60 second, and the input can be sensed every 1/60 second when the screen is switched. Also, depending on the tempo of the music, it is supposed to be in the rhythm of music from about +1/60 seconds to -1/60 seconds. If it is shifted more than this, it can be understood that the timing is shifted while listening to the sound. Therefore, in the present embodiment, A: when the rhythm is 1/60 second earlier, B: when the rhythm is just right, and C: when the rhythm is 1/60 second later, are determined to be performances on the rhythm. I decided to. Then, the numbers of sounds played at the respective timings are defined as NA, NB, and NC, respectively, as follows: (MAX (NA, NB, NC) -MIN (NA, NB, N
C)) The bonus point is calculated according to the formula of × (constant). A bonus point is calculated by multiplying a constant obtained by subtracting the minimum value of NA, NB and NC from the maximum value of NA, NB and NC, and the calculated bonus point is added to the score. With such a formula, the highest score is obtained when all inputs are at any of the timings A, B, and C, and the lowest score is obtained when all inputs are dispersed on average. Since it takes time to obtain the variance, in the present embodiment,
The above-described simple method is used to evaluate the performance that is usually performed at high speed. By evaluating the glue as in the present embodiment, the performances of “before gluing” and “after gluing” can also be evaluated as stable rhythms.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart of the glue evaluation. When a sound is played by the player (step S
1) In step S2, it is confirmed whether or not an accurate sound has been played at an accurate timing (within ± 1/60 second from the instructed timing). If an accurate sound is being played at an accurate timing, the process proceeds to step S3, and it is determined whether or not the timing shift is early. If the timing is not early, the process shifts to step S4 to determine whether the timing is late. If the timing is not late, the process proceeds to step S5, and the value of the counter NB for the case where the rhythm is just right is increased by one. In step S6, it is determined whether or not the performance has ended. If the performance has not ended, the process returns to step S1 to perform the next input process. If the performance is over, proceed to step S7,
Calculate the Nori evaluation bonus. If it is determined in step S3 that the timing is early, the process proceeds to step S3.
8, the value of the counter NA for the case where the rhythm is 1/60 seconds earlier is incremented by one, and the process proceeds to step S6. Then, the same processing as described above is performed. If it is determined in step S4 that the timing is late, the process proceeds to step S9, where the counter NC for 1/60 late is used.
Is incremented by one and the process proceeds to step S6. And
The same processing as described above is performed. In this way, the values of NA, NB, and NC at the time when one piece of music has been played are obtained, and the bonus point of the glue evaluation is calculated using the above equation.

[Physical Fitness Meter] Next, the physical fitness meter of the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 18A is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a general physical strength meter and actual physical strength, and FIG. 18B is a diagram illustrating a relationship between the physical strength meter of the present embodiment and actual physical strength.
FIG. 3C is a diagram showing another example of the relationship between the physical strength meter and the actual physical strength. Here, the physical strength meter means that the meter amount increases or decreases depending on the success or failure of the player's operation. When the remaining meter amount becomes zero, the game is over. The actual physical strength is a source for displaying a physical strength meter, and is stored in the RAM 1b as a numerical value (hereinafter, also referred to as a physical strength value). The physical strength value increases or decreases according to the operation of the player, and the remaining meter amount of the physical strength meter increases or decreases based on the physical strength value. The health value itself is
It is not displayed on the display.

The CPU 1a monitors the operation of the player,
Increase your health if you succeed, decrease it if you fail. The points of addition and deduction of the physical strength value are calculated according to predetermined rules. The basis of this rule is that, for example, the points to be deducted when a failure occurs are determined according to the difficulty level of the performance and the situation of the failure. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9A, the remaining physical quantity of the physical fitness meter at the start of the game is, for example, 27, and the physical fitness value is 2700.

As shown in FIG. 18A, the physical strength meter and the actual physical strength in a general device have a linear function proportional relationship. The player plays while looking at the physical fitness meter, and when recognizing that the remaining meter amount of the physical fitness meter has become about three, the game is excited not to end the game.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2B, the CPU 1a monitors the physical strength value stored in the RAM 1b and keeps the physical strength value at 4 until the physical strength value becomes 1620.
Control is performed to reduce the remaining meter amount of the fitness meter by one every time the value is reduced by five. Also, when the physical strength value becomes 1620 and the remaining number of the physical strength meters becomes three or less, the CPU 1a reduces the remaining meter amount of the physical strength meter by 1 when the physical strength value decreases by 540.
Control to reduce the number. Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the player recognizes that his or her physical strength is decreasing at the portion shown by (b) in FIG.
I imagine a correlation diagram as shown in the figure. In other words, I think I have only a few remaining physical points and I'm excited. However, the actual physical strength remains more than the player thinks, and the time until the actual physical strength disappears is much longer than that of the conventional device. Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the state in which the player is excited can be maintained longer than in the conventional apparatus.

FIG. 18C is a diagram showing another example of the control method of the physical strength meter. When the physical fitness value stored in the RAM 1b becomes 1620, the CPU 1a reduces the remaining amount of the physical fitness meter to one. As a result, the state just before the end of the game (the state shown in FIG. 9C), in which the remaining physical power meter is one, is maintained for a long time, so that the player can enjoy the more exciting play for a long time.

The relationship between the physical fitness meter of the present invention and the actual physical fitness value is not limited to that shown in FIG. 18. For example, the change from the straight line in FIGS.
You may make it change by a quadratic function. FIG.
8 (b) and (c) use two linear functions.
A quadratic function or the like may be used instead of the next function.

FIG. 19 is a diagram for explaining a control method for changing how the actual physical strength decreases between the first half and the second half of the game. In general, when playing with a game device, a player who has played to some extent and has a game over has a higher degree of satisfaction of the player than a game over at the beginning of the game, and can therefore expect to play the game again. . However, in a conventional game device, especially when a beginner plays, the physical strength meter often becomes zero in the first half of the game and the game is often over.
On the other hand, in this embodiment, even if a beginner plays, in order to avoid the physical fitness meter becoming zero in the first half of the game, the method of reducing the physical strength value is changed between the first half and the second half of the game. ing. That is, in the first half of the game, for example, in the case where the game time is 90 seconds, from the start of the game to about 45 seconds, the deduction when the player fails is the deduction shown in FIG. It is calculated by multiplying the relaxation coefficient. The deduction mitigation coefficient shown in FIG. 19 is 60% immediately after the start of the game, gradually increases as the game progresses, and reaches 100% in the middle of the game. In the latter half of the game, the point deduction mitigation coefficient is set to 100%, and the score when the player fails is calculated. This allows
In the game device of the present embodiment, in the early stage of the game, even if the player fails, the physical strength meter does not decrease easily, and the game is likely to be over in the latter half of the game, and the satisfaction level when playing the game can be increased.

FIG. 20 is a control flowchart of the physical strength meter. When the game is started, in step S1, C
The PU 1a monitors the operation of the player and detects which fret the player has pressed and played at what timing. In step S2, a performance timing determination process is performed. In the timing display of FIG.
It has been described that the display is performed in two stages of "st" and "slow". However, in this timing determination, the timing of the player's playing is determined in five stages for convenience of explanation. “Cool” when played at the same timing as instructed on the screen, “good” when slightly deviated, and “f” when it is earlier than a certain time
ast ", and" slo
w ", and when the timing deviation is large, it is determined to be" bad ". This determination is performed using a determination table including a timing shift performed by the player and evaluation information such as “cool” and “good”.

In step S3, it is determined whether or not the result of the determination in step S2 is a target for deduction. When the judgment result is a deduction, that is, when the judgment result is “fas
If it is "t", "slow", or "bad", the process proceeds to step S4. In step S4, "cool",
Using a physical strength increase / decrease table including evaluation information such as “good” and “fast” and an increase / decrease value of physical strength, “fas” is used.
The determination results of “t”, “slow”, and “bad” are converted into increase / decrease values of physical strength. This physical strength increase / decrease table is “coo
"+8" for "l", "0" for "good",
"Fast" is converted to "-54", "slow" to "-61", and "bad" to "-65". Further, here, the converted increase / decrease value “−5”
4 ”,“ −61 ”or“ −65 ”is multiplied by the above-described deduction mitigation coefficient, and the result is set as the actual increase / decrease value. In step S5, the actual increase / decrease value obtained in step S4 is
A new physical fitness value is calculated by subtracting from the current physical fitness value stored in M1b, and the physical fitness value in the RAM 1b is rewritten with a new physical fitness value. In step S6, based on the physical fitness value calculated in step S5, a new physical fitness meter value is obtained using a physical fitness meter table including physical fitness values and physical fitness meter values.

On the other hand, when it is determined in step S3 that it is an additional point, that is, in the timing determination, "coo" is determined.
When it is determined to be "1" or "good", the process proceeds to step S7. In step S7, these determination results are converted into increase / decrease values of physical strength using the above-mentioned physical strength increase / decrease table. That is, if it is “cool”, the increase / decrease value of the physical strength is “+8”, and if it is “good”, it is “0”.
When the points are added, the process proceeds to step S5 without multiplying the coefficients. In step S5, the increase / decrease value obtained in step S7 is added to the physical fitness value stored in the RAM 1b to calculate a new physical fitness value, the physical fitness value in the RAM 1b is rewritten, and the process proceeds to step S6. In step S6, a new physical strength meter value is obtained as described above. The physical strength meter value thus obtained is displayed on a display.

Various tables used in the control flowchart of the above-mentioned physical fitness meter are stored in the ROM 1c in advance. Further, in the control flow chart of the above-mentioned physical fitness meter, for the sake of simplicity, the case of determining the timing at which the player has played in step S2 is described, but the determination is similarly performed for the fret pressed by the player. Is performed, and the result is reflected on the fitness meter. Furthermore, in the above determination of step S2, when the timing deviation is large, "bad" is determined. However, in the determination of step S2, when the player plays by pressing a fret different from the instruction on the screen, "bad" is determined. The determination may be made. Thus, in step S2, both the timing and the fret determination processing can be performed.

[Operation of Embodiment] Next, a schematic operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 21 is a schematic flowchart of the present embodiment. This flow is executed when a predetermined number of coins are inserted and the start button of the operation unit is pressed. Note that the player inputs sounds such as a bass and a lead guitar which are some parts of the music, and the sounds of the other parts are reproduced by the control unit 10. In step S1, it is determined whether the difficulty level of elementary or advanced is selected. When the elementary level is selected, the process proceeds to step S2, and it is determined which of the first elementary pieces has been selected. The player selects a desired song from 20 to 30 songs prepared in advance. In step S3, the music selected by the player is performed. The image of FIG. 9 is displayed on the screen of the display, and the musical score objects are scroll-displayed. If the player is good at performing, that is, if the player can perform well and the physical fitness meter remains by the time the first music is completed, the process proceeds to step S4 to determine whether the second music has been selected. Judge. In step S5, the performance of the second music is performed in the same manner as the first music. If the second song is also played well, the process moves to step S6, where the evaluation, ranking and ending are displayed. The evaluation is performed, for example, on a scale of 100. At this time, bonus points based on the evaluation of the glue are added. In addition, this performance is compared with performances performed in the past, and the order of the player is displayed. Then, the end of the game is displayed on the screen. On the other hand, step S
If the performance meter becomes zero during the performance of step 3 or step S5, the process proceeds to step S6.
The same processing as above is performed, and the end of the game is displayed.

If the difficulty is selected in step S1 and advanced is selected, the process proceeds to step S7 and the first level is selected.
Select the first song. In step S8, the first music piece is played. If the player can play well and the physical fitness meter remains, the process proceeds to step S9, and the second song is selected. In step S10, the selected second music piece is played. If the performance of the second music can be performed well, the process proceeds to step S11 to select the third music. In step S12, the third music piece is performed. If the performance of the third tune can be performed well, the process proceeds to step S6 to display the evaluation, ranking, and ending. Step S
At the end of the performance of the third piece of music at 12, it is determined whether or not the player has a superior performance, and the player with the superior performance is given a further opportunity to perform an extra performance. If your grade is excellent,
In step S13, a song for extra performance is selected. In step S14, the extra performance is performed, and the process proceeds to step S6 to display the evaluation, ranking, and ending. This game takes about 90 seconds per song, so the time required for one game is about 5 minutes.

[Effects of the Embodiment] According to the game device of the present embodiment described above, until the remaining amount of the physical strength meter becomes small, the reduction of the physical strength meter is fast, but the remaining amount of the physical strength meter becomes small. When the player is in an excited state,
The decrease of the physical strength meter is reduced to about 1/10, which is slow. Therefore, the excited state can be maintained for a longer time than the conventional apparatus.

According to the game device of the present embodiment, the first half of the game is calculated by multiplying the deduction point mitigation coefficient when calculating the points to be deducted, so that the game is over in the first half of the game. And the game is over in the second half of the game. Therefore, the satisfaction of the player can be increased as compared with the conventional device.

[Other Embodiments] The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist. For example, in the above embodiment, the game device that plays the electronic guitar has been described. However, the game device of the present invention may be a game device that plays another instrument such as a piano, or includes a fitness meter. If it is a game, it may be a fighting game instead of a performance game.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where the deduction moderation coefficient increases continuously and gradually is described. However, the deduction moderation factor may be increased stepwise. Alternatively, the points to be deducted may be calculated without using the deduction mitigation coefficient.

Further, in the above embodiment, the case of playing by one person has been described. However, when playing by two people, the physical strength meter can be controlled in the same manner.
Further, when a fighting game is played by two players, when the remaining amount of the physical strength meter of one player decreases, when the player's physical strength is deducted, control may be performed so that the number of points deducted is reduced. .

In the above embodiment, the case where the physical strength meter is increased or decreased in accordance with the operation of the player has been described. However, the physical strength meter may perform only the deduction without adding a point.

Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the present invention is configured in the form of a game device for playing an electronic guitar, but the present invention is not limited to this, and is configured in the form of electronic input means, a personal computer, and an application. You may do so.

In addition, according to the present invention, a program for realizing the functions of the above embodiments may be stored in a recording medium, and the program stored in the recording medium may be read out and executed using a computer. As a recording medium,
A floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, DVD, or the like can be used.

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the remaining amount of the physical strength meter becomes small, the control for decreasing the physical strength meter is controlled so as to enjoy the exciting play for a long time. And thus the interest of the game can be doubled.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a game device according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which (a) is a front view and (b) is a right side view.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the electronic guitar 20.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a string switch 22 of the electronic guitar unit 20.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining output of a chord volume.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state where a string is played with a finger using an actual guitar.

FIG. 6A is a diagram for explaining the movement of a string switch. (B) is a figure for explaining output of a chord volume.

FIG. 7 is a control block diagram of the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for recognizing that a string switch has been played;

FIG. 9 is a screen displayed on a display when playing alone.

FIG. 10 is a screen displayed on a display when two players play.

FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of a musical score object for explaining performance timing.

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of a musical score object for explaining release.

FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining the movement of a ball character.

FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining a method of transmitting a rhythm error to a player.

FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining Reno.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing statistics of how much the music piece is shifted, and showing the result.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart of a glue evaluation.

18A is a diagram showing a relationship between a conventional physical fitness meter and actual physical fitness, FIG. 18B is a diagram showing a relationship between the physical fitness meter of the present embodiment and actual physical fitness, and FIG. 18C is a physical fitness meter. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing another example of the relationship between the actual physical strength.

FIG. 19 is a diagram for explaining a control method for changing how actual physical strength decreases in the first half and the second half of the game.

FIG. 20 is a control flowchart of a physical strength meter.

FIG. 21 is a schematic flowchart of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: control unit, 1a: CPU, 1b: RAM,
1c: ROM, 1d: sound source, 2: system board,
3: input / output board, 4: amplifier, 10: main body,
11: display, 12: speaker, 13:
Operation unit, 20: electronic guitar, 21: fret switch, 22: string switch, 23: mute switch, 14: arm with volume, 21a: pressure sensor, 21b: analog-to-digital converter, 21c:
Encoding converter 22a: String volume, 24a: Arm volume, 23a: Pressure sensor, 23b: Analog-to-digital converter

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] An operation determining means for determining an operation of a player, a physical strength increase / decrease table for outputting an increase / decrease value according to a result of the operation determining means, and a physical strength value calculated from the increase / decrease value output from the physical strength increase / decrease table Physical strength value calculating means, and display means for displaying a meter amount based on the physical strength value, and the meter amount is calculated from the physical strength value calculated by the physical strength calculating means.
When determining, when the physical value is larger than a predetermined value, increases or decreases as the way of the meter increase and decrease a number <br/> made for the stamina value, sometimes the strength value is less than the predetermined value, stamina
Game apparatus, characterized in that the controlled as how meter increase and decrease is reduced relative to increase or decrease the value. Wherein said physical value calculating means, the game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calculating the change amount by multiplying the deduction relaxation coefficient increases with the progress of the game. 3. Judgment for judging a player operationfunctionAnd an increase / decrease value according to the result of the determination function.Health increase / decrease table
UsingOutput increase / decreasefunctionAnd said increase or decreasefunctionCalculate the physical strength value from the increase / decrease value output in
Physical fitness calculationfunctionAnd the physical strength value is a predetermined valueWhen greaterIs the increase or decrease in physical fitness
How to increase or decrease the meter amount forManySo that
Physical strength value is a predetermined valuebelowSometimesPhysical fitnessIncrease or decreaseAgainst
How to increase or decrease the meter amountButLessBecomeIn addition, the physical fitness value
Function to obtain meter amount from physical strength value calculated by calculation function
When,The mail Indication to display the data amountfunctionAnd a program to make a computer realize
Computer readable recording medium. 4. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the physical strength value calculating function calculates an increase / decrease value by multiplying a deduction point mitigation coefficient that increases as the game progresses.