摘要 |
<p>This invention consists of methods of providing simulated voice dialog between a human game player (12) and talking animated characters (17, 18) that appear on a video or television screen (11) and perfom cooperative actions and talk about what they are doing or will soon do. They talk to each other and to the human players who control directly or indirectly what the characters do and say. Each player has a hand-held controller (31) that displays two or more words or sentences (22). A player (12) responds to what an animated character says by pressing a button (14) next to a selected sentence. An animated character then responds verbally or by action to the selected sentence as if it had been spoken by the human player or says the words the player selected. Human players thus have an illusion of voice dialog with interesting characters involved in cooperative activities.</p> |