Patent ID: 8696421
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A63F,G10H

Abstract:
1. A game system comprising: an input device that includes at least one operation unit; a display device that displays and outputs a game screen; a sequence data storage device that stores sequence data in which operation timing of the operation unit during the game is described; and an operation guide device that provides the operation timing of the operation unit to a player, and wherein the operation guide device comprises: an operation timing determination device that determines the operation timing, which is included within a predetermined time range of a current time toward a future on the game, of the operation unit based on the sequence data; a guide domain presenting device that causes two or more operation guide domains including at least one route corresponding to the operation unit to be displayed on the game screen simultaneously; a sign position control device that displays an operation instruction sign corresponding to each piece of operation timing determined by the operation timing determination device and an operation reference sign corresponding to the current time in a time ordering array along the route in one of the operation guide domains, and generates a relative displacement according to a time progress of the game between the operation reference sign and the operation instruction sign such that a distance between the operation instruction sign and the operation reference sign is decreased along the route in association with a decrease in time difference between the current time and the operation timing that should be provided by the operation instruction sign, and such that the operation instruction sign is matched with the operation reference sign in the operation timing that should be provided by the operation instruction sign; and a route switching device that switches the route in which the relative displacement is generated between the operation guide domains according to a predetermined condition, and the sequence data includes operation timing corresponding to one of the operation guide domains and operation timing shared by the operation guide domains, and the sign position control device controls display of the operation instruction sign corresponding to each piece of operation timing such that continuity of the relative displacement is maintained before and after switching of the route by the route switching device.