Patent ID: 6855058
Filing Date: 2005-02-15
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A game progress management device to which a prescribed number of terminal devices that receive operations from players are connected through communication circuits so as to be capable of mutual communication of operation signals necessary for proceeding with a game and whereby a progress of a network game that is conducted in a common game space is managed and the network game is continued in simulated fashion if a fault occurs in the communication circuits, said game progress management device comprising: abnormality monitoring means that detects a disconnected circuit in which failure of communication has occurred from the communication circuits of the prescribed number of terminal devices during the progress of the game in the common game space; simulated signal generating means that generates a simulated operation signal that simulates the operation signal of each terminal device connected through said disconnected circuit; and simulated signal providing means that provides said simulated operation signal to the other terminal devices, respectively.