Patent ID: 7708637
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a game program for displaying, on a display device communicating with a computer executing the game program, a game world including a player character acting in accordance with operation information which is output from an input device to the computer by an input operation of a player and a plurality of non-player characters acting in a self-active manner, the game program causing the computer to function as: player character control means for controlling an act of the player character in accordance with the operation information which is output from the input device; act number counter update means for, when the player character performs each of a plurality of acts which are respectively associated with a plurality of act tendencies influencing an act of each non-player character performed in a self-active manner, updating a counter for the act tendency corresponding to the act of the player character among act number counters respectively provided for the act tendencies of each non-player character; act tendency value update means for updating an act tendency value, obtained by enumerating a value for each act tendency of each non-player character, based on the value of the corresponding act number counter, the updating being performed at a predetermined timing without depending on the act of the player character; non-player character motion control means for controlling a motion of each non-player character based on the act tendency corresponding to the act tendency value; and the display device displaying the game world including the player character and the plurality of non-player characters on the display device, wherein each of the act number counters is individually provided for a respective one of the plurality of non-player characters, and the act number counter update means individually updates each of the act number counters of each of the non-player characters in accordance with a state of existence of each non-player character in the game world.