Patent ID: 9399165
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A game device for executing a game using an owned character that is owned by a user of a game player in the game, comprising: a character storage unit for storing the owned character in a storage device; and a character exchange CPU configured to exchange the owned character with another character, wherein the character exchange CPU is configured to comprise: an exchangeable character presentation CPU configured to determine, based on the owned character, an exchangeable character that can be exchanged with the owned character, and presenting the exchangeable character on a screen, an exchange condition presentation CPU configured to set a character exchange condition for exchanging the exchangeable character presented by the exchangeable character presentation CPU with the owned character, present the character exchange condition on a screen, an exchange-target character selection CPU configured to cause the user to select, among owned characters, an owned character to be exchanged with the exchangeable character, and an exchange execution CPU configured to execute the exchange of the owned character with the exchangeable character when the owned character that satisfies the character exchange condition presented by the exchange condition presentation CPU is selected by the exchange-target character selection CPU, and update a memory content of the character storage unit to a content after the execute of the exchange, wherein the game is played on the basis of a group including a plurality of the owned characters, and the exchangeable character presentation CPU is configured to comprise an average value calculation CPU configured to calculate an average value of basic ability scores of the owned characters for each position in the group, an insufficient position identification CPU configured to identify, as an insufficient position, a position with a lowest average value calculated by the average value calculation CPU, and a position determination CPU configured to determine a position so that the insufficient position identified by the insufficient position identification CPU is chosen with a higher probability than other positions, and the exchangeable character presentation CPU presents, as the exchangeable character, a character of the position determined by the position determination CPU on a screen.