Patent ID: 7670225

Claim:
A game machine for disposing at least one additional game element on a game map formed by a plurality of units, said game machine comprising: a unit score calculator which calculates a unit score for each of the units, the unit score being determined based on route information regarding a route starting from a start unit serving as a start point on the game map to each unit; a disposition unit selector which selects a unit on which the game element is disposed, based on the unit score calculated by the unit score calculator; a game element disposer which disposes the game element on the unit selected by the disposition unit selector, thereby dynamically creating a game map that provides a desired degree of difficulty by adjusting the complexity of the game map through selective addition of obstacles; and a display interface that generates a display of at least a portion of said game map, wherein the unit score calculator calculates a distance parameter for each of the units as the unit score, the distance parameter being indicative of a distance of the route starting from the start unit to each unit, and wherein each of the units includes at least one connecting portion for connection to another unit, and with the connecting portion being connected to another connecting portion of another unit, the units are combined to form the game map, the game machine further comprises connecting portion distance data defining means which defines connecting portion distance data indicative of a distance between connecting portions in a unit having a plurality of the connecting portions, and the unit score calculator calculates the distance parameter by totaling the connecting portion distance data for connecting portions to be passed through on the route starting from the start unit to each unit.