Patent ID: 8597094

Claim:
A game device for carrying out a sport game to be played by a user team and an opponent team, comprising: player character state storage means for storing positions of player characters belonging to the user team and positions of player characters belonging to the opponent team; marking target selection means for selecting a player character who is different from another player character who is holding a moving object among player characters belonging to the opponent team as a marking target player character; marker selection means for selecting any of the player characters belonging to the user team as a marker player character; first marker control means for controlling a position of the marker player character to be in a first mode, based on a position of the marking target player character and a predetermined position, such that the position of the marker player character is between the marking target player character and the predetermined position; second marker control means for controlling, in a case where a player character that is belonging to the opponent team and other than the marking target player holds the moving object, the position of the marker player character to be in a second mode, based on both the position of the marking target player character and a position of the moving object or a position of the player character holding the moving object among the player characters belonging to the opponent team such that the position of the marker player character is between the marking target player character and the position of the moving object or the position of the player character holding the moving object; determination means for determining whether or not a predetermined switching condition is satisfied; and marker control switching means for switching, in the case where the player character that is belonging to the opponent team and other than the marking target player holds the moving object, a state in which the first marker control means controls the position of the marker player character and a state in which the second marker control means controls the position of the marker player character, based on a result of determination by the determination means.