A virtual character control method includes: displaying a virtual environment interface; receiving a skill cast operation and a movement control operation, the skill cast operation being used for casting a directional skill in a first direction, and the movement control operation being used for controlling a main control virtual character to move in a second direction, the first direction and the second direction being independent of each other; and controlling the main control virtual character to cast the directional skill in the second direction. When the directional skill is cast, the second direction is determined according to the received movement control operation, and the main control virtual character is controlled to cast the directional skill in the second direction.

The game system comprises: a first selection unit that performs a first selection in which a game character is selected; a strengthening unit that raises the skill level of the game character on condition that the game character selected in the first selection is already possessed by the user; an effect-enabling unit that enables the game character to be changed in appearance on condition that the game character selected in the first selection is an appearance changing character; an effect applying unit that changes the appearance of the game character that is enabled to be changed in appearance; and a second selection unit that performs a second selection in which an appearance changing ticket applicable to any game character possessed by the user can be selected when the skill level of all types of the game character reaches an upper limit.

A data exchange method includes: obtaining an operation instruction based on a control operation on a first virtual character; controlling, according to the operation instruction, the first virtual character to perform an interaction action on the first virtual object; and adjusting a state of the first virtual object to a first target state based on the interaction action performed on the first virtual object and adjusting a state of a second virtual object displayed in a second area of the display interface to a second target state in response to the state of the first virtual object being changed, a second virtual character displayed in the second area of the display interface being controlled by a second client to perform an interaction action on the second virtual object.

Systems and methods to automatic administration based on ledger-specific populations of unique digital articles in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may manage user accounts associated with users of an instance of a game, including a first user account having a first account inventory that includes a first unique digital article; determine a size of a set or population of unique digital articles that include the first unique digital article; determine a fraction of the set or population of unique digital articles recorded on a private decentralized ledger; determine eligibility for the first unique digital article and/or the first user to receive one or more rewards; adjust the one or more rewards based on the determined fraction; provide the adjusted rewards.

The present disclosure provides a game providing method including determining at least one object interactable with a player in a space where the player is located; displaying an interaction graphic user interface (GUI) corresponding to one object of the at least one object in a display area independent of the at least one object; and displaying a subsidiary GUI of the interaction GUI in an area overlapping at least a portion of the display area without displaying the interaction GUI when an interaction between the player and the one object is activated.

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an accessory having a plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, a plurality of light sources, wherein each light source emits a controllable spectrum of light through a corresponding one of the plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, and a controller coupled to the plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, and the plurality of light sources. The controller can be operable to detect tactile contact of each of the plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, receive status information associated with a video game, and adjust the spectrum of light emitted by at least a portion of the plurality of light sources according to the status information to indicate one or more aspects of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

A system and method for facilitating implementation of events in an online game are disclosed. Award information may be received from user. The received award information may define a type of in-game award to be distributed to players of the online game. The award information may include information indicate a corresponding award handler for determine and/or distributing the instances of the award to the players. Event information may be received from user. The received event information may specify details for implementing an event in the online game. The received event information may include event award information indicating one or more instances of an award of an award type defined by the received award information. The event information may be used to automatically implement the event in the online game, and the instances of the award may be distributed to the participating players in accordance with the event award information.

A gamified application is provided for users to feed animated virtual characters with images of real-world food items. The images fed to the virtual characters are to be uploaded to a data store in a cloud environment, for use in training a custom machine learning model. A server in the cloud environment receives a photo of a food item fed to a virtual character in an augmented reality environment in the gamified application executing on a user device, invokes the custom machine learning model to generate classification information for the photo, sends the classification information to the user device for verification by a user, and stores the verified information to the data store used for periodically training the machine learning model. Over time, the data store would include a large volume of food images with label data verified by a large number of users.

Provided is an information processing program for causing a computer to realize: a game execution unit that consumes a first parameter to execute a first game in the case where it is determined on the basis of the first parameter that it is possible to execute the first game; a first recovery unit that recovers the first parameter up to a first recovery upper-limit value as time elapses; a second recovery unit that recovers a second parameter, which is different from the first parameter, up to a second recovery upper-limit value as time elapses; and an instructed recovery unit that, in the case where an instruction from a player is accepted, consumes the second parameter using a second parameter consumption amount based on the current amount of the second parameter and recovers the first parameter on the basis of the consumption amount.

A method for training a character for a game is described. The method includes facilitating a display of one or more scenes of the game. The one or more scenes include the character and virtual objects. The method further includes receiving input data for controlling the character by a user to interact with the virtual objects and analyzing the input data to identify interaction patterns for the character in the one or more scenes. The interaction patterns define inputs to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model associated with a user account of the user. The method includes enabling the character to interact with a new scene based on the AI model. The method includes tracking the interaction with the new scene by the character to perform additional training of the AI model.