Patent ID: 9662580
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A control method for a computer network, comprising: storing, by a memory for storing information related to a game in which a plurality of players can participate, information defining a plurality of groups to which said players belong, a reward providing condition, rewards, and reward box information for a plurality of reward boxes each associated exclusively with a respective one of said groups, as part of the information related to the game; and by an arithmetic processor, performing computation on the game, and displaying images of the game on terminal devices operated by the players allocating at least one reward out of the rewards to at least one of the reward boxes, determining whether the reward providing condition is met based on match-up situations or match-up results between the players and first game characters in the game, and displaying, on the terminal devices, a screen for providing the reward allocated to at least part of one of the reward boxes to at least one player in the group associated with the one of the reward boxes based on the determination results.