KR20060010531A - Training Game System in Mobile Communication System and Its Method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to download the character for the development game to the mobile communication terminal, generates an event that combines the ad appropriately at regular intervals, and to connect the game server to solve the event, to develop the character, The present invention relates to a nurturing game system in a mobile communication system and a method for providing a nurturing game in a mobile communication system, wherein the game server provides a game program to a mobile terminal of a service subscriber. And storing the provided game related information at the same time; A second step of notifying an occurrence of an event to the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber every predetermined time; A third step of checking a growth state of a character corresponding to a subscriber identifier and displaying corresponding event contents when the subscriber mobile communication terminal is connected in response to the event occurrence; A fourth step of upgrading a growth state of the character when the response to the displayed event content is received and storing the upgraded information in the subscriber's mobile communication terminal and a game database; And when the growth of the character is completed, a fifth step of storing the completed character.

Moving, wireless, nurture, growth, character, event, cyber

Description

Upbringing Game System and Method in Mobile Communication System             

1 is a block diagram of a training game system according to the present invention;

2 is a processing flowchart of a training game providing method according to the present invention;

3 is a detailed flowchart of an event resolution process according to the present invention;

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

11: wireless internet network 12: game server

13: Game DB 14: Member DB

The present invention relates to a nurturing game system and a method thereof in a mobile communication system. More specifically, after downloading a character for a nurturing game to a mobile communication terminal, an event is generated at regular intervals, and the game server is connected to the event. The present invention relates to a fostering game system and method for fostering a character, and a recording medium recording the same.

A typical character raising game is called Tamagotchi. The game only works with a dedicated game machine. Since then, there is a cyber development game through the Internet. On the other hand, Korean Patent Publication No. 2001-62783 discloses a character raising game service using a mobile communication terminal.

The game service disclosed in 2001-62783 has a web game server system connected to the wireless internet, and provides a character raising game program for any mobile communication terminal that accesses the web game server system via the wireless internet. The user of the communication terminal is to raise the character. To this end, when the application signal for the character-raising game sent by the first mobile communication terminal is received, the web game server system transmits the character seed through the wireless Internet to the second mobile device designated by the first mobile communication terminal and the first mobile communication terminal. Send to the communication terminal. The character raising game program installed in the first mobile communication terminal and the second mobile communication terminal acts, and grows in accordance with the call interval and / or talk time whenever a call is connected between the first mobile communication terminal and the second mobile communication terminal. Calculate the growth stage of the character according to the calculated growth energy. Then, the growth of the character corresponding to the calculated growth stage is displayed on the display screens of the first and second mobile communication terminals so that the users of the first and second mobile communication terminals jointly display the characters according to their call connection. Make it grow. This allows you to manage common characters in virtual spaces using the most commonly available telephones, doubling the joy of talking between two people and eliminating the sense of distance that you cannot often meet in modern society. You can increase your connection with people.

However, such a conventional technology has a disadvantage in that it can not be combined with a variety of businesses by nurturing a character embedded in the mobile communication terminal by the call of the mobile communication terminal period. In other words, if the character is properly combined with advertising, advertisers will be able to provide more effective advertising services, and the character will be able to provide more various bonuses to subscribers.

Therefore, the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, an object of the present invention is to download the character for the training game to the mobile communication terminal, generates an event that properly combines the advertisements at regular intervals, the game server The present invention provides a game development system and method for a mobile communication system capable of raising a character and providing an incentive according to the character development to a subscriber.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program.

A system according to the present invention for achieving the above object, a game game for storing a game program, and a game server for providing a game service, wherein the game database includes a game program and each subscriber's current Character growth state information and event processing history is stored, and the game server manages the downloaded character and the growth state of the character for each subscriber, each in response to an event generated in a certain period for the growth of the character When the subscriber's mobile communication terminal is connected, the mobile communication terminal is identified, the growth state information of the corresponding character is confirmed, a problem for event resolution is provided, and when the subscriber resolves the provided event, the character's growth It is characterized by updating the status.

In addition, the method according to the present invention for achieving the above object, in the method for providing a training game in a mobile communication system, the game server provides a game program to the mobile communication terminal of the service subscriber and at the same time stores the provided game-related information A first step of doing; A second step of notifying an occurrence of an event to the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber every predetermined time; A third step of checking a growth state of a character corresponding to a subscriber identifier and displaying corresponding event contents when the subscriber mobile communication terminal is connected in response to the event occurrence; A fourth step of upgrading a growth state of the character when the response to the displayed event content is received and storing the upgraded information in the subscriber's mobile communication terminal and a game database; And when the growth of the character is completed, a fifth step of storing the completed character.

In addition, the present invention provides a first step of providing a game program to the mobile communication terminal of the service subscriber at the server computer, and at the same time storing the provided game-related information; A second step of notifying an occurrence of an event to the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber every predetermined time; A third step of checking a growth state of a character corresponding to a subscriber identifier and displaying corresponding event contents when the subscriber mobile communication terminal is connected in response to the event occurrence; A fourth step of upgrading a growth state of the character when the response to the displayed event content is received and storing the upgraded information in the subscriber's mobile communication terminal and a game database; And when the growth of the character is completed, a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the fifth step of storing the completed character.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, and may vary according to intentions or customs of users or operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

1 is a system configuration diagram for providing a training game in a mobile communication system according to the present invention.                     

The fostering game system according to the present invention stores a game server 12 and a game program connected to the wireless Internet network 11, like a normal game system, and manages the growth state and event processing history of each character of each subscriber. And a member database (DB) 14 that manages the personal information of each subscriber registered as a member.

The member DB 14 stores personal information of each subscriber. That is, the member DB 14 stores an individual ID, a password, personal information, a game use history, and the like. The game DB 13 stores a game program, training state information of each subscriber, event processing history, and the like.

The game server 12 identifies the subscriber connected through the wireless Internet network, and guides the user who does not subscribe to the game service to perform a subscription procedure. Then, when subscribing to the game service, the game server 12 provides the serviced character type to the subscriber's mobile communication terminal. When the subscriber selects one of the provided characters, the game server 12 downloads a game program corresponding to the selected character to the subscriber's mobile terminal and at the same time matches the subscriber's identifier in the game DB 13 to associate with the game. Save it. Here, the subscriber identifier is preferably a mobile communication telephone number. When it is in this state, it becomes an initial state which can play a game.

The game server 12 then generates an event and notifies the subscriber's mobile terminal. Of course, in the present invention, since the training state of the characters stored in the mobile communication terminal of each subscriber is also stored in the game DB 13, it is also possible to generate an event in the mobile communication terminal without generating an event in the game server 12. It is possible. When generating an event in the game server, a short message type including a callback URL is preferable. When generating an event in the mobile communication terminal, a voice (sound) form that can be recognized by the subscriber is preferable.

When the mobile communication terminal of each subscriber is connected to the game server 12 through the wireless internet network as the event occurs, the game server identifies each subscriber. And the game server presents a problem for solving the corresponding event according to the current character training state. The problem may include advertisement information. When the subscriber resolves the presented event, the character's growth state is upgraded, and the upgraded state is stored in the subscriber's mobile terminal and the game DB 13.

When the growth of the character is completed through this process, the completed character is stored, and the incentive accordingly is provided to the subscriber.

On the other hand, if there is no response from the subscriber to the generated event, the game server 12 may lower the growth state of the character one step. Furthermore, if the subscriber does not respond to the event even after a certain period of growth of the character, the game server may release the subscriber from the game service.

2 and 3 is a flow chart illustrating a method for providing a training game using a mobile communication system according to the present invention.

First, a mobile terminal user accesses a game server and performs a service subscription procedure (101, 102). As the subscriber subscribes to the service, the game server downloads the character and the game program to the mobile communication terminal (103). In this state, when an event generation time for character development is reached (104), an event notification using an SMS message of a game server or an event notification by voice of a mobile communication terminal is generated (105).

Then, the subscriber resolves the event according to the occurrence of the event (106). The event resolution will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

First, let's look at the game server notifying the event using a short message. The game server stores the growth status of the character that each subscriber is nurturing. Then, history information such as occurrence time and resolution time of the event for character development is stored. Using such information, the game server transmits an SMS message for generating an event to the mobile communication terminal at a predetermined time. In operation 202, a response to the event notification SMS message is received. If the mobile communication terminal does not access the game server even after a predetermined time has elapsed in the standby state, the character growth state of the subscriber is lowered (203, 204). If the character growth is in the initial state, the subscription is canceled if there is no server connection for event resolution even after a certain period of time elapses.

When the corresponding mobile communication terminal connects to the game server after the event notification (201), the game server checks the identifier of the subscriber (205), and extracts the character growth state information of the corresponding subscriber (206). In operation 207, a problem for resolving an event corresponding to a growth state of the character is displayed. The subscriber sends an answer to the problem for resolving the indicated event, and the game server receives this result (208) and resolves the generated event. When the event is resolved in this way, the growth state information of the character is changed, and the character is changed into a new shape accordingly.

On the other hand, when the event is notified by the game program of the mobile communication terminal, the subscriber is connected to the game server through the wireless Internet network in accordance with the event notification. The procedure after connecting to the game server is the same. In the event that the subscriber does not access the server even when the event is notified through the mobile terminal, the event history information of each subscriber is also stored in the game server. Is the same as

As described above, when the event is continuously generated at regular intervals to foster the character, and the subscriber resolves the generated event, the character continues to grow. Then, when the growth is completed (108), the game server stores the completed growth character, and provides the subscriber with an incentive for this. In addition, the subscriber may distribute the grown character to other subscribers.

According to the present invention as described above, while providing a character training game to the subscribers using a mobile communication terminal, by including an advertisement in the event generated for the growth of the character, there is an effect that the company can effectively advertise, By completing the character training, the subscriber can be provided with the incentive accordingly.

Claims (10)

In a nurturing game system including a game database for storing a game program and a game server for providing a game service, The game database stores the game program and the growth status information and event processing history of the current character of each subscriber, The game server manages the downloaded character for each subscriber and the growth state of the character, and when the mobile communication terminal of each subscriber is connected in response to an event generated at a predetermined period for the growth of the character, the mobile communication terminal In the mobile communication system characterized by identifying the growth state information of the corresponding character, providing a problem for event resolution, and updating the growth state of the character when the subscriber resolves the provided event Upbringing game system. The method of claim 1, And the game server lowers the growth state of the character when there is no response from the subscriber to the provided event for a predetermined time. The method according to claim 1 or 2, Wherein the event is generated by the game server transmitted to the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber through a short message every predetermined time. The method according to claim 1 or 2, Wherein the event is generated by a game program in the subscriber's mobile communication terminal at predetermined time intervals. The method of claim 3, wherein The event, the development game system in a mobile communication system, characterized in that it comprises advertising information. In the method of providing a training game in a mobile communication system, A first step of a game server providing a game program to a mobile communication terminal of a service subscriber and simultaneously storing the provided game related information; A second step of notifying an occurrence of an event to the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber every predetermined time; A third step of checking a growth state of a character corresponding to a subscriber identifier and displaying corresponding event contents when the subscriber mobile communication terminal is connected in response to the event occurrence; A fourth step of upgrading a growth state of the character when the response to the displayed event content is received and storing the upgraded information in the subscriber's mobile communication terminal and a game database; And And when the growth of the character is completed, a fifth step of storing the completed character. The method of claim 6, After the event occurrence notification in the second step, if the subscriber's mobile communication terminal is not connected for a predetermined time, further comprising the step of lowering the growth state of the character. The method of claim 6, The event notification in the second step, the game server is a growth game method in a mobile communication system, characterized in that performed by a short message every predetermined time. The method of claim 6, The event notification in the second step, the growth game method in a mobile communication system, characterized in that performed by the game program stored in the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber. On the server computer, A first step of providing a game program to a mobile communication terminal of a service subscriber and simultaneously storing the provided game related information; A second step of notifying an occurrence of an event to the mobile communication terminal of the subscriber every predetermined time; A third step of checking a growth state of a character corresponding to a subscriber identifier and displaying corresponding event contents when the subscriber mobile communication terminal is connected in response to the event occurrence; A fourth step of upgrading a growth state of the character when the response to the displayed event content is received and storing the upgraded information in the subscriber's mobile communication terminal and a game database; And The computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the fifth step of storing the completed character when the growth of the character is completed.

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