Patent ID: 8267791

Claim:
A method for a game system including game terminals, a schedule management device, a game server and a matching server, that allows a game server and a matching server defining a server system to perform a specific matching process based on matching requests from the game terminals to form groups that simultaneously play a specific communication game, the method comprising: storing geographic location information of the game terminals; receiving each of the matching requests by receiving a matching request signal transmitted from each of the game terminals, and team identification information that can specify each of teams set in advance to which a player of each of the game terminals belongs; forming the groups so that game terminals that satisfy a specific same location condition, belong to an identical team, and are selected from the game terminals for which the matching request has been received are incorporated in a single group referring to the location information stored and the team identification information; determining the groups that play a match by selecting groups of different teams from the groups that have been formed; and supplementing a computer-controlled player to at least one of the groups that play a match, of which the number of players is smaller than that of the other group, so that the numbers of players of the groups become equal, when the groups that play a match differ in numbers of players.