Patent ID: 9409082
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A rhythm game control apparatus for controlling progress of a rhythm game while reproducing music and causing a display to display one or more trigger on a display screen of the display, the display including a touch panel, each of the one or more trigger indicating an operation sign to prompt a player to input an operation according to a rhythm of the music, the rhythm game control apparatus comprising: a basic music score information memory for storing basic music score information, the basic music score information indicating a basic music score on which one or more trigger arrangement permissible mark is arranged, the trigger arrangement permissible mark indicating an arrangement permissible position for the one or more trigger; a music score information memory for storing music score information, the music score information indicating a music score on which the one or more trigger is arranged in a game mode, the music score being used in the rhythm game; a processor for causing the display to display a music score editing screen on which the basic music score indicated by the basic music score information is configured to be edited in an edit mode; and a receiver for receiving a trigger arranging request from the player on the music score editing screen in the edit mode on the basis of a trigger arranging operation by the player, wherein the processor arranges each of the one or more trigger on the basic music score in accordance with the trigger arranging request received by the receiver in the edit mode in a case where an arranging request position of each trigger by the trigger arranging request is an arrangement permissible position at which a trigger arrangement permissible mark is arranged, the processor registers edited music score information in the music score information memory, the edited music score information indicating the music score for which the one or more trigger on the basic music score is edited in the edit mode, and a special effect is activated within a certain range on the music score when the player continues the operation at the right time during progress of the game mode, the certain range not being the arrangement permissible position in the edit mode.