Patent ID: 9724602
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: A63B,A63F,G06F,G07F

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for controlling the view of a gameboard for a computer game on a display of a computing device comprising one or more processors by executing computer code on said one or more processors to perform the steps of: controlling the display to electronically display computer game graphics of the gameboard with multiple game elements that are removed when matched by drawing on the display the multiple game elements in a series of rows and columns, wherein the gameboard comprises more rows than are displayed on the display at any one time; controlling the display so as to show at least one or said game elements moving down the gameboard to fill gaps; configuring at least one of said processors to determine that none of said multiple game elements satisfy a match condition; and in response to determining that none of said multiple game elements satisfy a match condition, scrolling the electronic display of the game graphics of the gameboard down and removing game elements of a top row of game elements from the gameboard.