Video game with helper role or obstructer role for second player having separate display

摘要

A main player operates a controller while viewing a monitor game image displayed on a monitor. A sub player operates a terminal device while viewing a terminal game image displayed on an LCD of the terminal device. A game image that is substantially identical to the monitor game image viewed by the main player is displayed on the LCD. By touching a touch panel provided on a screen of the LCD of the terminal device, the sub player can generate various events at a position in a game world corresponding to a touched position.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a game program executed by a computer of a game apparatus for conducting a game process for play by a first user and at least one further user in accordance with an input from a portable display device including a touch panel adapted to be operated by the first user and an input from at least one input device, the game program structuring and configuring the computer as:
a first input receiver configured to receive and process an input from the touch panel, a second input receiver configured to receive and process an input from the at least one input device; a game processor configured to conduct a predetermined game process based on an input received by the first input receiver from the touch panel and an input received by the second input receiver from the at least one input device; an image generator configured to generate both a first game image and a second game image of an identical game world in accordance with a game process result obtained by the game processor, wherein the first game image includes at least one object that is part of an element forming the game world and which is hidden in the second game image even though the first and second game images otherwise provide substantially identical images of the game world; a first display controller configured to output, to the portable display device for viewing by the first user, the first game image generated by the image generator including the at least one object that is part of the element forming the game world; and a second display controller configured to output, to a display device that is different from the portable display device and which is configured to be viewable by both the first user and the at least one further user, the second game image generated by the image generator which does not show the at least one object that is part of the element forming the game world, wherein the game processor generates a predetermined event at a position in the game world corresponding to a position on the first game image instructed through the touch panel, and the first game image and the second game image each include an image of an object, the first game image further includes an image representing a characteristic of the object, and the second game image does not include the image representing the characteristic of the object.