Patent ID: 8313375

Claim:
A game terminal for performing a process in accordance with an input instruction from a player of a game, the game terminal comprising: a storage device that stores written data; a touch panel that has a planar contact face and that, in a case in which a touch operation contacting the contact face is performed by the player, detects a position of a portion in the contact face touched by the touch operation to output detected position data showing a detected position; a display that displays an image on the contact face; an input unit that outputs operation data corresponding to an operation of the player with regard to a play of the game, the input unit not including the touch panel; an operation data transmitter that transmits the operation data output from the input unit to a game terminal of an opponent player; a normal image generator that generates a normal image as an image to be displayed on the display during the play of the game based on the operation data output from the input unit; a position record processor that causes the storage device to store, as start position data showing a position of a start point, a position indicated by detected position data output from the touch panel by the start of a continuous touch operation and that causes the storage device to store, as end position data showing a position of an end point, a position indicated by detected position data output from the touch panel immediately before the continuous touch operation ends, the continuous touch operation being a touch operation in which the contact at the contact face continues from the start point to the end point; an option display controller that controls the display to display an option group image in which plural option images are arranged, in the normal image, around a position indicated by the start position data stored in the storage device, each option image showing an option of an input instruction that can be input by the player and indicating an intention which the player conveys to the opponent player; an identifier that performs an identifying process of identifying one of the plural options as the input instruction based on the start position data and the end position data stored in the storage device; an intention data transmitter that transmits to the game terminal of the opponent player, intention data showing the input instruction identified by the identifier as first notification data; and a first input instruction processor that performs a process in accordance with the user input instruction identified by the identifier, wherein the intention data is different from the operation data.