Patent ID: 8162747
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game control program stored in non-transitory memory on a gaming apparatus having a processor for controlling the output of a display device comprising: a control module which controls progress of a game in accordance with an operation instruction accepted from a user using an input device in communication with the gaming apparatus; a display module which generates a display screen of the game and displays it on a display device; a stop module which stops the progress of the game on the display screen at that point in time displayed on the display device when an operation instruction to pause the game is accepted from the user using an input device; and a resume module which resumes the game after redisplaying display screens on the display device as redisplay screens from a point in time which is a predetermined period before the pausing point up to the pausing point on the display device when a request to resume the game is accepted from the user with the game in a paused state, wherein the resume module which resumes the game displays the redisplay screens from the point in time which is the predetermined period before the pausing point up to the pausing point on the display device in a display mode different from that of the display screen displayed by the module which displays a display screen, and gradually changes the display mode of the redisplay screen from the display mode different from that of the display screen to that of the display screen such that the display mode of the redisplay screen is reached to that of the display screen when the redisplay screen reaches the display screen at the pausing point.