Provided is a game system capable of discriminating types of action performed by a game character in more detail. A reproduction data acquiring section (46) saves a game situation obtained within a reproduction subject period as reproduction data if a shooting action is performed, an action determining section (48) determines based on the reproduction data whether or not a dummy action was performed by an operation subject object other than an operation subject object that performed the shooting action, and a playback video outputting section (50) performs an output based on a determination result by the action determining section (48) in accordance with outputting of a playback video based on the reproduction data.

A computer system is used to host a virtual reality universe process in which multiple avatars are independently controlled in response to client input. The host provides coordinated motion information for defining coordinated movement between designated portions of multiple avatars, and an application responsive to detect conditions triggering a coordinated movement sequence between two or more avatars. During coordinated movement, user commands for controlling avatar movement may be in part used normally and in part ignored or otherwise processed to cause the involved avatars to respond in part to respective client input and in part to predefined coordinated movement information. Thus, users may be assisted with executing coordinated movement between multiple avatars.

A command center system includes forms to receive incident data describing an incident and at least one incident list that is populated with incident data from the input forms. The system also includes a status page that includes a list of links to incident pages, each incident page constructed from incident data in the at least one incident list. The status page also includes a daily briefing link to a daily briefing page that is constructed once per day from incident data in the at least one incident list such that incident data added after the current daily briefing page is constructed are not included in the daily briefing page. The status page also includes an incident content feed link for a content feed of incident data added to the at least one incident list and a daily briefing content feed link for a content feed of daily briefing pages.

Example systems and methods involve detecting an input to a touchscreen display of a video game apparatus; determining a video game action based on a shape of the input; and determining a timing of the video game action based on a color associated with the input.

The present invention pertains to a method and apparatus for providing a dynamic and scalable topology for virtual world environments. In one embodiment, the method may include determining, in response to a request of a user computer system to transfer from a first place to a second place in a virtual environment, an instance of a second place that satisfies the request. The method may also include directing the user computer system to a game server that provides the determined instance of the second place.

A computer system is used to host a virtual reality universe process in which multiple avatars are independently controlled in response to client input. The host provides coordinated motion information for defining coordinated movement between designated portions of multiple avatars, and an application responsive to detect conditions triggering a coordinated movement sequence between two or more avatars. During coordinated movement, user commands for controlling avatar movement may be in part used normally and in part ignored or otherwise processed to cause the involved avatars to respond in part to respective client input and in part to predefined coordinated movement information. Thus, users may be assisted with executing coordinated movement between multiple avatars.

A computer-implemented method including generating and displaying graphical user interface on display screen of apparatus; receiving request to move at least one group of objects to target area on graphical user interface, detecting when at least one obstacle lies in path between target area and at least one group of objects; when it is detected that at least one obstacle lies in path, generating instructions to control movement of objects of at least one group in randomized manner, wherein instructions indicate at least one random variable parameter to be employed during movement of given object in at least one group; and executing the instructions to control movement of objects of at least one group from their respective starting locations to target area on graphical user interface.

Provided is a method for controlling a computer, etc., which makes it possible to improve the usability of city building games. The computer is provided with a storage unit configured to store game contents arranged within a game space, positions of the game contents, and a template defining positions of one or more of game contents, and progresses a game by arranging the game contents within the game space based on a command by a player. The method includes when the template is applied to a predetermined area within the game space based on the command by the player, moving, by the computer, the game contents arranged within the game space to the positions of the game contents defined by the template.

A machine learning-based model is configured to make inferences about computer game actions to execute based on dynamic, varying player gestures and to translate those game actions into input sequence macros. In some instances, the button sequence mapping for the macros can even dynamically change based on game state so that different macros for the same computer game action might be inferred by the model depending on game state.

A first object is moved to a first object coordinate set on the basis of an operation input, and along with the movement, a footprint coordinate set which is a coordinate set based on the first object coordinate set is stored in a time-series order. For a first footprint coordinate set among the stored plurality of footprint coordinate sets, whether or not a path to a second footprint coordinate set which is later in time series than the first footprint coordinate is passable is determined, and if the path is passable, the path is stored in association with the first footprint coordinate set. While a second object is being moved so as to track the stored plurality of footprint coordinate sets, if there is a passable path from a predetermined footprint coordinate set to a predetermined second footprint coordinate set, the second object is moved through the path.