Patent ID: 9717990
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium including a program which is executable by a computer for causing the computer to perform operations including: receiving, by a receiver, an input from a player who uses the computer; communicating, by a transmitter, with other computers on a network; storing, in a memory and for the computer and each of the other computers, information representing whether a movie is being played back; displaying, on a display device included in the computer, when a predetermined event generation condition for executing a virtual character battle in a game is met during the game, the movie, termination of a display of the movie being enabled in accordance with the input from the player, the computer and each of the other computers participating in the virtual character battle during the game via the network; setting, in the memory and for the computer and each of the other computers, the information to represent that the movie is being played back when the predetermined event generation condition for executing the virtual character battle in the game is met during the game; terminating, by a processor, the display of the movie in accordance with the input from the player; setting, in the memory and for the computer, the information to represent that the movie is not being played back when the display of the movie is terminated in accordance with the input from the player; setting, in the memory and for each of the other computers, the information to represent that the movie is not being played back when an input on termination is received from each corresponding one of the other computers via the network; and executing, by the processor, the virtual character battle during the game after the display of the movie has been terminated by the processor and by each of the other computers, wherein the movie comprises a dynamic image relating to the virtual character battle, the virtual character battle following the termination of the display of the movie, the movie is displayed on the computer and each of the other computers, and the computer and each of the other computers terminates the display of the movie by operating an input device before a given period elapses.