Patent ID: 8262463
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game system comprising: a game terminal for use in a computer game; and a communication apparatus for communicating with the game terminal, the game terminal comprising: an input interface; an input instruction receiver that receives, via the input interface, plural input instructions from a participant player who participates in a play of the computer game during the play of the computer game, wherein each of the plural input instructions includes a sequence of input operations; a weighting factor data storage device that stores, in association with identification data for uniquely identifying each of the plural input instructions, weighting factor data indicating a weighting factor that has been set to each of the plural input instructions; a play result determiner that determines a result of the play based on the value of a weighting factor indicated by the weighting factor data that has been stored in the weighting factor data storage device in association with identification data of an input instruction received by the input instruction receiver; a counter that counts the number of inputs for each input instruction received by the input instruction receiver and that generates count result data indicating results of the count; and a result data transmitter that transmits the count result data to the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising: a result data receiver that receives the count result data; an aggregator that aggregates the count results indicated by the count result data to generate aggregated result data; a high-usage input instruction identifier that, based on the aggregated result data, identifies, as a highly-used input instruction, an input instruction for which the number of inputs exceeds a predetermined upper limit standard value; and a setting data transmitter that transmits, to the game terminal, setting data which indicates a weighting factor that less affects a result of the play than a weighting factor that has been set to the input instruction identified by the high-usage input instruction identifier, after associating the setting data with the identified input instruction, and the game terminal further comprising: a setting data receiver that receives the setting data; and a weighting factor data updater that updates weighting factor data indicating the weighting factor that has been set to the input instruction corresponding to the setting data so that the updated weighting factor data indicates the weighting factor indicated by the setting data.