Patent ID: 8556694
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A network game system comprising a server apparatus and a plurality of terminal apparatuses connected to the server apparatus via a network, each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses operated by a player for allowing a plurality of player characters to participate in a network game, each of the plurality of player characters controlled by the player and existing in a common virtual space, wherein each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses comprises: wherein the server apparatus comprises: wherein the display controller of each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses causes the display device to display the visible range in which each of the plurality of player characters specified by the visible range information is arranged so that each of the plurality of player characters that exists in the visible range is distinguished from other player characters, controlled by other players, which exist in the visible range, and so that the active character is distinguished from the non-active characters that exist in the visible range, wherein the first operation includes a selection of the tab of the second character by the player during the progress of the video game, and wherein the active character controller controls one of the plurality of player characters that is finally logged into the network game as the first character until the active character switcher switches the first character to the second character in accordance with the first operation.