Patent ID: 7819731
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game machine for executing a game which allows a player character, which moves in a virtual space, to use a game element selected from a plurality of game elements of a plurality of types during a progress of the game, said game machine comprising: an imager that captures an image according to a first player instruction; an image storage that stores image data of the captured image; an image analyzer that analyzes the stored image data; a battle generator that generates a battle between the player character and an enemy character during the progress of the game; an action selector that selects, during the battle and in accordance with a second player instruction, one of a plurality of actions, the plurality of actions including a new game element generation action; a game element generator that generates a new game element of a type corresponding to a result of analysis of the image data when the action selector selects the new game element generation action, the new game element being capable of being used by the player character; a game element storage that stores the plurality of game elements including the new game element; a game element selector that selects one of the plurality of game elements, including the new game element, to be used by the player character from the plurality of game elements, including the new game element, stored in said game element storage; and a game element user that uses, by the player character, the selected one of the plurality of game elements during the progress of the game.