Patent ID: 8235778
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game system comprising game-progression processing means operable, according to communication about manipulation information between a plurality of game apparatuses each equipped with a manual operation section manipulatable from outside, a display unit and communication means, via a network, to progress a completion-type role-playing game configured to allow a player's character and an opponent's character displayed on said display unit in each of said game apparatuses to alternately play on offensive and defensive sides through a game medium, wherein each of said game apparatuses includes: area-graphic display control means adapted to display, on said display unit, an area graphic having a predetermined shape which virtually represents a predetermined range in a game space; setup means adapted, based on manipulation information accepted from said manual operation section, to set up one of offensive and defensive locations within said area graphic, and set up a shape of a first mark image on the basis of said setup location; mark display control means adapted to display, onto said area graphic, said first mark image set up by said setup means, and, after completion of said setup processing by said setup means, display, onto said area graphic, a second mark image which is received from the opponent's game apparatus through said communication means, and set up in a predetermined shape on the basis of the other one of said offensive and defensive locations which is set up in said area graphic; and competition result-setting means adapted to set a competition result depending on a degree of overlapping between said first and second mark images.