Patent ID: 8168435

Claim:
A game apparatus controlling a game where a battle occurs in virtual space between one or more player characters acting according to manipulation of a player and one or more enemy characters acting independently of the manipulation of the player, said game apparatus comprising: command information storage means for storing, for each player character, a plurality of command information sets that are available to the player character and a plurality of numerical values to be selected; command candidate selecting means for selecting, for each player character, one or more command candidates as ones ready to be given to the player character from said command information sets; status detecting means for detecting a status in which any one of the player characters is ready to attack and for detecting a status in which any one of the player characters is selected as an attacking target of the enemy characters; command input acceptance means for accepting an input when one of said statuses is detected by the status detecting means, said input being performed to select a command to be given to the player character in the detected status from said command candidates; and effect calculating means for calculating an effect which is to be produced in the game as a result of the selected commands, wherein the command input acceptance means accepts the input which selects a plurality of command candidates within a predetermined period of time, and wherein the command candidate selecting means replenishes the command candidates with as many command candidates as the selected command candidates from said command information sets instead of the selected command candidates.