Patent ID: 8221222
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: A63F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A game system, comprising: a plurality of terminal devices each of which is assigned any of a plurality of players, each of who progresses a game by clearing a plurality of stages in an order, a predetermined rule that uniquely determines a play order of the plurality of players being shared by the plurality of terminal devices, wherein each of the plurality of terminal devices includes: a storage unit that stores, for all of the plurality of players, delay information indicating whether each player is delayed or not, and stage information indicating whether each player has cleared each of the plurality of stages or not; a play determining unit that determines whether a play condition of an owner player assigned to the terminal device is satisfied or not, where the play condition is: an operation entry unit that, in a case where the play condition of the owner player is satisfied, accepts an operation entry from the owner player, the operation entry being given for a first stage in the order among stages that have not been cleared by the owner player; an operation sending unit that sends an operation notification that specifies the accepted operation entry to the other terminal devices of the plurality of terminal devices the operation receiving unit that receives an operation notification that is sent from any other terminal device of the plurality of terminal devices; a stage updating unit that updates the stage information stored in the storage unit, where (m) in a case where a clearing condition of the first stage in the order among the stages that have not been cleared by the owner player is satisfied by the accepted operation entry, the stage updating unit stores, in the storage unit, information that the owner player has cleared the first stage in the order among the stages that have not been cleared by the owner player, and (n) in a case where a clearing condition of a first stage in the order among stages that have not been cleared by any other player assigned to a terminal device that has sent the received operation notification is satisfied by an operation entry specified in the received operation notification, the stage updating unit stores, in the storage unit, information that the any other player has cleared the first stage in the order among the stages that have not been cleared by the any other player; and a delay updating unit that updates the delay information stored in the storage unit, where (p) in a case where, for each sub player, a stage up to which the sub player has cleared and a stage up to which all the main players have cleared are the same, the delay updating unit stores, in the storage unit, information that the sub player is not delayed.