US 11,850,510 B2
Storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
Satoko Higashi, Kyoto (JP); and Yusaku Shimizu, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/220,933.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-067246 (JP), filed on Apr. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0308573 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A63F 13/00 (2014.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.01); G06T 3/60 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63F 13/52 (2014.09) [G06T 3/60 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a processor of an inform ad on processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
in accordance with a placement operation of a user, placing, in a first placement direction in a virtual space displayed on a display device, a part that includes at least one connection direction, wherein the virtual space is a two-dimensional space including; a plurality of square grid divisions, and the part is square;
in accordance with a rotation operation of the user, rotating the part placed in the first placement direction in the virtual space so that the part is placed in a second placement direction;
if a first part and a second part that are the part placed in the virtual space are adjacent to each other, based on combinations of at least a direction in which the first part is adjacent to the second part, the connection direction included in the first part, and the connection direction included in the second part, determining whether or not the first part and the second part are connected together; and
if the first part and the second part are connected together, producing in the first part and the second part an effect in a game different from an effect in a game in a case where the first part and the second part are not connected together,
wherein the placement includes:
in accordance with a placement position in the virtual space where the part is placed in the virtual space, determining the first placement direction by rotating the part to be placed in each of the square grid divisions by 90 degrees each time when the part is newly placed in the virtual space; and
updating drawing of the part in the virtual space, displayed on the display device, based on the determined first placement direction.