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Bananza Patents 1

A banana hoard of Donkey Kong Bananza patents are published in the US. This thread is only a quick overview. Follow the links for details.

From patent US20250242263: FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a non-limiting example of a game image displayed on a display 12 in which a player character PC performs an action of flattening a terrain object TO

User operations on voxels: US20250242258, US20250242263, US20250242264

FIG. 22 is an example non-limiting diagram showing an example of, when a voxel satisfying a predetermined criterion regarding a damage value is present in a case where a destruction action is performed on a voxel object composed of a plurality of materials different in hardness, an update of the density of the voxel
FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a non-limiting example of a game image in which a player character PC has broken a terrain object TO
FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a non-limiting example of a flattening range and a target plane

Terrain modifications: US20250242249, US20250242250, US20250245929

FIG. 24 is a diagram in which the destruction range before correction and the destruction range after the correction are compared with each other, and is an example non-limiting diagram showing an example of the destruction range in a case where the player character PC throws a punch in an obliquely upward direction FIG. 25 is a diagram in which a case where the destruction range is not corrected and a case where the destruction range is corrected are compared with each other, and is an example non-limiting diagram showing an example of the terrain after the destruction in a case where the player character PC throws successive punches in the obliquely upward direction
FIG. 18 is an example non-limiting diagram showing an example of the trace polygon mesh trpm before and after unnecessary vertices are eliminated in a case where the trace polygon mesh trpm is projected onto the terrain object TOJ FIG. 19 is an example non-limiting diagram showing the state where another terrain object TOJ is placed on the terrain object TO, and the player character PC performs the destruction action on the terrain object TOJ
FIG. 16 is a view showing an example of a method for generating broken piece objects

Object interactions: US20250242248, US20250242259, US20250242262, US20250242265

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a non-limiting example of a game image showing that a player character PC performs an action of breaking a portion of a terrain object TO
FIG. 17 is an example non-limiting diagram showing an example of a game image of the game space viewed from a virtual camera, and an image displayed on a display device
FIG. 16 is a view showing an example of a state in which a portion of a tree object has been deleted from the state shown in FIG. 15
FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a non-limiting example of a game image indicating a situation in which a cavity is further formed in a terrain object TO, and a placed object OBJ is newly placed in the cavity

Terrain and object restorations: US20250242254, US20250245928

FIG. 19 is a view showing an example of the movement of a restoration region during the restoration process
FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating an outline of restoration of a terrain object in a target area

Camera controls: US20250242244, US20250242245

FIG. 21 is a diagram for describing a non-limiting example of the range of movement of a virtual camera C in the case in which a underground camera permission condition is not satisfied, and a non-limiting example ofthe range of movement ofa virtual camera C in the case in which the underground camera permission condition is satisfied
FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a non-limiting example of six views obtained from a location based on a player character PC in upward/downward, left/right, and forward/backward directions

Voxel based character generations and motions: US20250242252, US20250242253, US20250242256

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of an outline of a process of generating a non-player character
FIG. 23 is a diagram showing another example of the voxel portion ofthe enemy character before and after the change to tilt the voxel portion of the enemy character
FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a state where an eye object and a foot object change when the non-player character deforms

Voxel and particle interactions: US20250245925

FIG. 17 is a view showing an example of a game space in which an ice object is arranged
FIG. 19 is a view showing an example of a state where the ice object deforms from the state shown in FIG. 18
FIG. 25 is a view showing an example of how a voxel object grows larger

[Originally posted on 2025-07-31 Pacific Time]

Related posts: Bananza Patents 2, and Bananza Patents 3