WO2014098781A1

WO2014098781A1 - Method for modifying game parameters of digital games

Info

Publication number: WO2014098781A1
Application number: PCT/UA2012/000113
Authority: WO
Inventors: Игорь Владимирович НОЩЕНКО; Святослав Васильевич СТЕПКИН
Original assignee: Noshchenko Igor Vladimirovych; Styopkin Sviatoslav Vasilyevich
Priority date: 2012-12-19
Filing date: 2012-12-19
Publication date: 2014-06-26

Abstract

The invention relates to computer (virtual, digital) games, both for single users and for multiple users and web-based games. The method for modifying game parameters of digital games comprises introducing changing game modifiers into the game environment during a game, wherein the introduced modifiers determine noninteractive parameters of the game, and game software introduces the modifiers by means of requesting changing data from outside the game from databases matched to the game, receiving the requested modifiers, transforming said modifiers into a format which is appropriate for introduction into the game and then introducing them into the game as noninteractive game parameters. The technical result of the invention consists in providing a method for modifying game parameters of digital games having an effect on the game process by means of receiving data thereof from a medium external to the game, whilst interpreting directly, or with conversion, actually occurring events in the real world and using them as game modifiers affecting the development of the game process.

Description

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

METHOD OF MODIFICATION OF GAME PARAMETERS OF DIGITAL GAMES

The invention relates to virtual (digital) games, both single-user and multi-user, network.

Elements and parameters used by developers when creating games are divided into interactive and non-interactive. Interactive elements and parameters mean those with which the user can interact explicitly (buttons, scrollbars, speedometers).

Under non-interactive - elements and parameters that convey information to the player allowing you to make decisions, but do not give the opportunity to directly influence them and change their values during the gameplay.

Non-interactive parameters are divided into mutable and immutable.

Immutable non-interactive parameters are game conditions that remain unchanged throughout the game and (or) the game cycle (party, tour, game session). Such parameters include, for example, the seniority of the cards (for the card game as a whole) or the determination of the trump suit (within the same game session).

Variable non-interactive parameters can be changed during the game according to the game algorithm or randomly (configuration and order of falling out figures in Tetris).

Really Modifiable Modifiers (RIM) are non-interactive game parameters, i.e. such that the player cannot influence and change their values during the game process, but accepts them as a condition of the game.

In most modern computer games (World of Warcraft, Tanks Online, Webracing, NFS World, Virtual Skipper, etc.) non-interactive game parameters (game cards, seasons, weather conditions, cost of resources, etc.) are set directly by the developers of this game or game algorithm. The disadvantage of such games is that the procedure for the formation of space and factors affecting the game process is predefined within the framework of possible options, while, with the general principles of placement, the constancy of game factors, the game algorithm can be optimized, which reduces the level of fun of the game process.

From the international application for invention WO200067867, a method and a system for conducting races is known in which telemetry data is used to enter data about real races into users' personal computers, and they can take part in these races virtually. A limitation of the method known in patent WO200067867 is the lack of conversion of the obtained data, as well as the absence of a multi-player game mode. Also, there is no modification of real data within one game session. From the patent for invention RU 2413997, a method for positioning players in a gaming space of a network computer game is known, which enables the player to be positioned on the display of the gaming device depending on the speed of the data input reaction. The disadvantage of the method known from the patent RU 2413997 is that this method does not provide for the influence of external factors, such as time of day, weather, etc., on the gameplay.

According to the patent for the invention RU 2413998, the “Method for firing at a target in a network computer game” is known, which includes entering into the computer the game parameters of a virtual projectile, determining the dynamics of its movement to the target, aiming and firing a virtual projectile in the direction of the target. The disadvantage of the method known in the patent RU 2413998 is that this method does not provide for the influence on the game process of real data from an off-game environment.

According to the application for the invention RU 2001123258 is known and taken as the closest analogue, “The way to control and regulate the gaming system”, which consists in the fact that the playing field, the rules of the game and the game cycle are symbolically determined and the participants of the game are registered, the initial compositions of groups of players are selected and formed , keep an individual score of player points, each player is identified by a set of key features that are encoded and stored in a personal computer, players are included in at least one game situation and keep scores for each selected game, according to the invention, the common playing field is formed from conceptual projects, business proposals, economic concepts, hypotheses, scientific ideas of the game participants, which are recorded in symbolic form in the form of multidimensional matrix tables. A disadvantage of the method known in the application for the invention RU 2001123258 is that this method does not provide for the presence of a database of external personality factors, and also does not provide for the modification of real data into game data within one game session.

None of the listed inventions apply the conversion of real data, for example, really occurring changes in air temperature are converted into price fluctuations in the virtual gaming market.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for modifying the game parameters of digital games, which is associated with the development of the game process and entering data from the off-game environment, which will significantly complicate and diversify the game process and as a result will make the game more attractive from the point of view of the game procedure itself, since in the game The process involves information that is a reflection of a real situation, the initial parameters and the development of which are not amenable to complete algorithmization. This provides the ability to generate an infinite number of factors affecting the gameplay.

Game parameters can be used either directly, displaying changes in identical parameters in an off-game environment, or converted to other parameters of the game (game session). According to the proposed invention, the task is solved by creating a "Method for modifying the game parameters of digital games", which provides for the introduction of changing game modifiers during the game into the game environment, while the input modifiers are non-interactive game parameters, and the game program enters the modifiers by querying existing ones outside the game changing data from the databases selected for the game, receiving the requested modifiers, transforming them into a suitable one for entering the game The format of and the subsequent entry into the game as a non-interactive game settings. Game modifiers, according to the proposed invention, do not display identical processes and phenomena in an off-game environment, but are converted to change other non-interactive game parameters. Game modifiers can be imported by the game program from the databases automatically. As well as game modifiers, the operator can enter them, getting them from a non-game environment.

FIGURES OF DRAWINGS:

FIG. - Modification scheme of game parameters of digital games.

Designations in the drawings:

B-0 - real data area;

B-1, B-2, B-3 ... B-p - databases;

A-0 - game program;

A-1 - game interpreter;

A-2 - data modification;

A-3 - game interface;

P-1, P-2, P-3 ... P-p - users of the game.

The implementation of the proposed invention is as follows:

During the game, modifiers are introduced into the game environment, which are non-interactive parameters of the game, that is, real data (RI data), which are stored in the form of databases (B-1, B-2, B-3 ... B-η) in the field of real data (B-0), organized by the type and origin of information (Fig.). Entering modifiers is performed by the game program (A-0), which regularly requests data from the databases, receives them and transforms them using the game interpreter (A-1), assigning the functions of game modifiers to real data (ROM data). The game program (A-0) regularly requests data from databases, receives it and transforms them using the game interpreter (A-1), assigning the functions of game modifiers to real data. The data undergoes modification (A-2), updates the previous values of the modifiers, and acts as non-interactive game conditions. Through the game interface (A-3), users of the game (P-1, P-2, P-3 ... Π-n) interact with the game, adjusting their actions depending on changes in game data.

This invention also provides for the ability of users to access the real data area (B-0) and receive game information (and also predict it) without using the game interface. This invention contemplates using, as parameters input into game modifiers of computer games, real data (ROM data) obtained from an off-game environment using events in the real world, directly or indirectly displaying them in the game. Data is imported from the Internet or other open sources, processed by a game program on a local computer or game server, and entered as game parameters during the game. Also, data can be processed and entered by the operator (administrator of the gaming environment). As input data, meteorological data, the results of sports games, price fluctuations, the results of polls, polls, etc. can be used.

The data can be used as direct modifiers, with the least degree of interpretation (weather and time of day in the game world, repeating actual weather conditions in a real geographic location), and as indirect, interpreted by the game program (for example, the strength of the game characters depends on the results of a real sports match )

Also, this invention provides the possibility of developing ROME plug-ins in the form of separate modules for existing single or multi-user games, which will allow, for example, linking the virtual value of game elements (game payment units, artifacts, materials, etc.) to real prices updating them and creating a virtual display of the market, influence weather conditions, etc.

One example of a game with the possibility of using real data (ROM data), as well as the original game, in which the use of ROM plug-ins is possible, is the Virtual Skipper game (http://www.virtualskipper.com/). In the game it is necessary to lead the yacht from port to port as quickly as possible, changing course, bypassing sections with headwinds, adverse weather and other conditions that can be imported from real weather Internet servers. The player can go to intermediate ports, buy fuel, parts whose price is based on real prices published on trading sites. In critical cases requiring immediate player intervention, a game in the background can send the player an alert.

The technical result of the invention is to create a method for modifying the game parameters of digital games that affect the game process by obtaining data from an off-game environment, interpreting real-life events in the real world and using them as game modifiers that affect the development of the game process.

Claims

CLAIM

1. A method for modifying the game parameters of digital games, which involves entering game game modifiers into the game environment during the game, characterized in that the input modifiers determine non-interactive game parameters, and the game program enters the modifiers by querying existing off-game changing data from bases selected for the game data, receiving the requested modifiers, transforming them into a format suitable for entering the game and then entering the game as non-interactive game parameters.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the game modifiers do not display identical processes and phenomena in the off-game environment, but are converted to change other non-interactive game parameters.

3. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that the game modifiers are imported by the game program from the databases automatically.

4. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that the game modifiers are entered by the operator, receiving them from the non-gaming environment.