Patent ID: 9370711
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory storage medium storing a game program for causing a computer of a game apparatus to execute a player-versus-player board game in which a plurality of players alternately place predetermined panels on a predetermined game field, thereby playing against each other, the game program causing the computer to perform: game field displaying for displaying, on a screen, a game field comprising a plurality of squares; panel displaying for displaying, on the screen, the panels which are respectively associated with the plurality of players and each of which is provided with one or more connecting portions at respective sides of the panel for forming a combined state with another panel by matching connecting portions with the another panel, wherein each panel has a distinct pattern of connecting portions associated therewith, said matching of connecting portions is based on linear alignment of connecting portions of adjacent sides of respective panels; panel selecting for, based on an operation performed by each player, selecting a corresponding one of the panels; square selecting for, based on an operation performed by said each player, selecting from the game field a square on which the corresponding one of the panels is to be placed; panel placing for placing, on the square selected by the square selecting, the corresponding one of the panels which has been selected by the panel selection; combined state determining for determining whether or not panels, associated with a same player, among a plurality of panels placed on the game field have formed a predetermined combined state via the connecting portions; and evaluating the predetermined combined state which the combined state determining has determined to have been formed, wherein the game program further causes the computer to perform combined panel number detecting for, when the combined state determining determines that the panels among the plurality of panels placed on the game field have formed the predetermined combined state via the connecting portions and that the panels forming the predetermined combined state are associated with the same player, detecting a number of panels forming the predetermined combined state, and the evaluating evaluates the combined state in accordance with the number of panels detected by the combined panel number detecting.