Patent ID: 6979265

Claim:
A game system, comprising: an image display device; an input device for outputting a signal according to an operation by a player; a storage device; and a game control device for executing a game according to a predetermined program while checking the output of the input device and displaying a game picture according to a proceeding situation of the game on the display device, wherein the game control device is further configured for implementing the steps of: displaying a route composed by arranging a plurality of character stop areas as well as symbols representing attributes allocated to the respective character stop areas on a screen of the display device; determining values obtained by a lottery based on inputs of the player via the input device; repeatedly moving a character, set as an object to be operated by the player, along the route character stop areas corresponding in number to the values determined by the lottery to character stop areas corresponding to stop positions; storing up in the storage device an event production amount, relating to event production, corresponding to the attributes of the character stop areas of the stop positions, each time the character moves to one of the stop positions; determining whether the event production amount corresponds to a predetermined value condition; changing display of at least one of the character stop areas, ahead of the character, from a first display state to a second display state when it is determined that the event production amount corresponds to the predetermined value condition, the second display state designating the at least one character stop area as an event production character stop area indicating an event production is required to take place when a stop position of the character coincides with the at least one of the character stop areas, wherein the first display state does not indicate that the event production is required; and producing the event production corresponding to said event production character stop area when said event production character stop area and the stop position of the character coincide.