Patent ID: 9308459
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A system capable of providing a competition game wherein a first player competes with a second player, the system comprising: an information storage unit configured to store at least game content information on a plurality of game contents used in the competition game; a memory storing a program; and one or more processors capable of executing the program, wherein the program comprises: a first formation setting module configured to set athletic field formations to be used by the first player and the second player in a first period of the competition game from among a plurality of athletic field formations each constituted by a plurality of athletic field positions, and arrangement of the game contents to the plurality of positions constituting the set athletic field formations; a first competition processing module configured to perform a first competition process for progressing the competition game in the first period based on the set athletic field formations used by the first player and the second player in the first period and the game content information on the game contents arranged at the plurality of athletic field positions constituting the set athletic field formations; a second formation setting module configured to set, after the first competition process, athletic field formations to be used by the first player and the second player in a second period of the competition game from among the plurality of athletic field formations, and arrangement of the game contents to the plurality of positions constituting the set athletic field formations; and a second competition processing module configured to perform a second competition process for progressing the competition game in the second period based on the set athletic field formations used by the first player and the second player in the second period and the game content information on the game contents arranged at the plurality of athletic field positions constituting the set athletic field formations, and wherein the game content information includes a first parameter, the first parameter of the game contents arranged at the plurality of athletic field positions constituting the formation used by the first player in the first period varies disadvantageously to the first player in progress of the first competition process, the first parameter of the game contents arranged at the plurality of athletic field positions constituting the formation used by the second player in the first period does not vary in progress of the first competition process, the first formation setting module receives from the first player and sets the formation and the arrangement of the game contents to be used by the first player in the first period of the competition game after the second player is specified as an opponent of the first player, and sets the formation and the arrangement of the game contents to be used by the second player in the first period based on the formation and the arrangement of the game contents previously set by the second player before the second player is specified as an opponent of the first player, and the second formation setting module receives from the first player and sets the formation and the arrangement of the game contents to be used by the first player in the second period of the competition game, sets the formation and the arrangement of the game contents to be used by the second player in the second period based on the formation and the arrangement of the game contents used by the second player in the first period, and receives, in response to an instruction from the first player, value information from the first player for varying the first parameter of the game contents used by the first player advantageously to the first player to vary the first parameter of the game contents advantageously to the first player.