Patent ID: 7497777

Claim:
A gaming machine for allowing a player to enter an action command of an ally character to proceed in a game, the gaming machine comprising: an operation unit that allows the player to enter the action command; a display control section that displays a plurality of characters including at least the one ally character and at least one enemy character on a display for displaying a progress of the game and displaying a battle between the ally character and the enemy character; an execution order calculation section that calculates an execution order of actions of a plurality of characters in the battle; and an action execution section that executes the actions of the plurality of characters based on the execution order calculated by the execution order calculation section, wherein the display control section displays the execution order calculated by the execution order calculation section on the display, and wherein, when a predetermined combination condition for a predetermined ally character and a different ally character from the predetermined ally character to take combination action is satisfied, when executing an action of the predetermined ally character, the action execution section also executes an action of the different ally character without following the execution order calculated by the execution order calculation section.