Patent ID: 9474974
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling a computer including a storage that stores a plurality of maps configuring a game space and information for identifying a plurality of players, the computer providing a game to a plurality of devices of the plurality of players respectively, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing to each of the plurality of players a selection to select any one of the plurality of maps to disperse the plurality of players on the plurality of maps; (b) storing a correspondence between the plurality of players and selected maps in the storage; (c) storing positional relationship between the selected maps, in the storage; (d) generating display data for displaying display screens of the selected maps on said devices respectively, each of the display screens including first and second display areas respectively corresponding to first and second predetermined areas of which the corresponding map is composed; (e) continuously monitoring and progressing a game on the plurality of maps by arranging a plurality of objects on display screens of respective maps in response to instructions from the plurality of players on the respective maps, wherein the display screens are the same for players on the same map, and wherein an object is displayed at the same position in the first predetermined area on devices of a plurality of players on the same map in response to instructions from a player; and (f) generating display data for updating said first and second display areas of a first map displayed on a device of a first player as the game progresses, said first display area displaying game progress on the first map, said second display area indicating game progress on a second map selected by a second player and different from the first map on the basis of said positional relationship between the first map and the second map.