Patents Assigned to NHN PIXELCUBE CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 11465038
    Abstract: A method for providing a puzzle game performed by a game server connected to a user terminal via a network includes the steps of: performing a user login process in response to receiving login information from the user terminal; and executing the puzzle game on the user terminal in response to receiving a game execution signal from the user terminal. Game action is performed in conjunction with player object groups if it is determined that a puzzle block elimination condition is satisfied according to a cumulative result of eliminating the puzzle blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN PixelCube Corporation
    Inventor: Seong Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 11000758
    Abstract: A method for providing a game includes: providing a plurality of blocks arranged on a block map with mission information to be displayed on a screen; selecting a block, among the plurality of blocks, based on a user's input and moving the selected block; determining whether matched blocks are adjacent to or exist around a mission block relating to mission information when some blocks, among the plurality of blocks match with a deletable form according to a movement of the block; deleting the matched blocks when the matched blocks are adjacent to or exist around the mission block; and processing the mission information for the mission block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: NHN Entertainment Corporation, NHN PixelCube Corporation
    Inventors: Seong Hyeon Kim, Eun Kyung Kim, Suan Yu
  • Patent number: 9522322
    Abstract: A method and a system for a game are disclosed. The method includes steps displaying a determination region in at least one section distinguished by neighboring points, on a virtual passage formed by a plurality of points sequentially connected with each other. The method also includes displaying an object moving along the virtual passage on a screen, and determining an accuracy or success/failure of a user input based on a position of the object at a time when the user input is detected and a position of the determination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: NHN ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, NHN PIXELCUBE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Dae Hong, Moo Kwan Lee, Ju Hyun Lee, Jin Seok Oh, Eun Kyung Kim, Sang bok Kim