Patent ID: 8287350

Claim:
A game management method capable of executing a competition game among a plurality of game terminal devices by exchanging operation information with each other via a network, comprising: a player identification step of identifying players before the start of the game; a cheat parameter calculating step of calculating a cheat parameter used to judge whether or not a specified penalty is to be given to a player; an unusual end judging step of judging whether or not an end of the game in process is an unusual end; and an unauthorized end judging step of judging whether or not the unusual end is an unauthorized end of the game due to an unauthorized operation by the player; wherein the unauthorized end judging step includes a step of setting cheat points based on a status of the competition game of the game terminal device operated by the player at the time of the unusual end, and wherein the cheat parameter calculating step includes a step of accumulating the number of unusual ends, a step of adding the set cheat points to those immediately before, and a step of calculating the cheat parameter from a ratio of the accumulated cheat points to the accumulated number of unusual ends.