US 12,440,764 B2
Information processing system, server, storage medium, and information processing method
Kouhei Maeda, Kyoto (JP); Yuji Ohashi, Kyoto (JP); Junichi Iida, Kyoto (JP); and Shingo Matsushita, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/071,032.
Claims priority of application No. JP2021-196086 (JP), filed on Dec. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0173390 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 13/57 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/57 (2014.09) [A63F 13/35 (2014.09)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing system that determines participating users of a competitive game, the information processing system comprising:
a server, and
a plurality of terminal apparatuses communicable with the server,
each of the terminal apparatuses being configured to at least:
designate, based on an operation input performed by a user to the terminal apparatus, a use object to be used in the competitive game from among a plurality of objects that are each associated with an object parameter;
designate, based on an operation input performed by the user to the terminal apparatus, a designation parameter that includes version data for the use object; and
transmit, to the server, a matching request including information regarding the designated use object and information regarding the designated designation parameter,
the server being configured to at least:
receive, from a plurality of terminal apparatuses, matching requests in which a value of the object parameter of the use object corresponds to version data of the designation parameter;
based on the matching requests, match, as the participating users for an instance of the competitive game, users of two terminal apparatuses, among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, which are in such a relationship that a value of the object parameter of the use object included in the matching request of each terminal apparatus corresponds to the version data of the designation parameter included in the matching request of the other terminal apparatus; and
transmit, to the two terminal apparatuses, first data for conducting the competitive game on each of the respective two terminal apparatuses,
wherein each of the terminal apparatuses are further configured to at least:
execute, based on the first data, the competitive game that includes a virtual game space that includes a plurality of virtual characters that are associated with an object parameter that corresponds to the version data of the designation parameter; and
process operation input received from the user of a respective terminal apparatus and based on the operation input, move at least one of the plurality of virtual characters within the virtual game space.