Patent ID: 8821297
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: A63F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a game program, the program causing a computer to perform: a participation acceptance step of accepting participation in a predetermined chat in a user interface from a user terminal via a communication line; a user instruction reception step of receiving a chat message and a display switching instruction from the terminal of one or more chat participating users whose participation in the chat is accepted; a screen display control step of displaying the received chat message on the chat screen in the user interface of the terminal of the one of more chat participating users; a game control step of receiving selection of one in-chat game among a plurality of in-chat games playable on the chat and a request of starting the in-chat game from the terminal of the one or more chat participating users, requesting other ones of the one or more chat participating users participating in the chat for their wish to participate in the game requested to start, and starting the in-chat game within the user interface of the chat wherein the chat between one or more game participating users and the one or more chat participating users is maintained after starting the in-chat game, wherein the user interface is configured to provide a display of a progress of the in-chat game to the chat screen of the one or more chat participating users; and a game management step of managing the progress of the in-chat game after the game is started, wherein the participation acceptance step accepts participation of the one or more chat participating users responding to the request the participation in the game control step as the one or more game participating users, the user instruction reception step receives an instruction for the progress of the in-chat game from the terminal of the one or more game participating users, the screen display control step displays a game progress display region indicating the progress of the in-chat game on part of the chat screen, and when receiving the display switching instruction in the user instruction reception step, switches display/hide of the game progress display region, and the screen display control step displays an image corresponding to an instruction for the progress of the in-chat game received from the one or more game participating users in the user instruction reception step on the chat screen of the terminal of the one or more chat participating users.