Patent ID: 8128499
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game device for causing each of a first player and a second player to execute a game operation on a controller in time with game music, the game machine comprising a processor which runs a program capable of performing the functions of: obtaining timing of said game operation executed by the first player and the second player; storing timing data indicating a time when the first player is to execute said game operation and a time when the second player is to execute said game operation; displaying timing instruction images to guide the first player and the second player, separately, about when to execute said game operation; displaying timing guide images including a normal timing guide and a special timing guide for each of said first player and said second player to guide the first player and the second player, separately, about when to execute said game operation, the timing guide images being created based on the stored timing data, the timing guide images gradually approaching the timing instruction images, wherein said special timing guide has an appearance that is substantially different from said normal timing guide, and the special timing guide of the first player is moving in a first direction within a display section of the first player; evaluating said game operation executed by the first player and said game operation executed by the second player by comparing said obtained game operation timing with timing that is represented by the stored timing data that is associated with the special timing guide to generate a deviation amount; and gradually transferring, when the deviation is amount less than a given amount, a display position of the special timing guide of the first player, toward a display position of the timing instruction image that guides the second player, thereby changing a trajectory of said special timing guide from the first direction to a second direction different from the first direction, and newly adding timing at which the second player is to execute said game operation, so as to inform the second player of the special timing guide that has caused said newly added timing to be presented, wherein when said deviation amount is equal to or larger than said given amount, said trajectory is not changed and new timing is not added at which said second player is to execute said game operation.