Patent ID: 8267795

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium storing a game-providing program that provides a game to a plurality of mobile terminals via a network, the game-providing program causing a computer to function as: a virtual event area selection section that selects a virtual event area based on current position information acquired by a mobile terminal among the plurality of mobile terminals, the virtual event area being linked to position information that indicates a position within a predetermined range from a current position obtained from the current position information; an acquisition section that provides a user with information about the virtual event area selected by the virtual event area selection section as acquisition candidate information via a mobile terminal among the plurality of mobile terminals, links the information about the virtual event area to identification information about the user, and causes a memory to store the information about the virtual event area as acquisition information about the user when an acquisition request for the virtual event area indicated by the acquisition candidate information has been received from a mobile terminal among the plurality of mobile terminals; a visit processing section that provides a user with information about the virtual event area selected by the virtual event area selection section as visit candidate information via a mobile terminal among the plurality of mobile terminals, and receives a visit request for the virtual event area indicated by the visit candidate information from a mobile terminal among the plurality of mobile terminals; and a parameter calculation section that calculates at least one of a result value and a game parameter of a user in response to the acquisition request and/or the visit request for the virtual event area, the parameter calculation section changing the result value or the predetermined game parameter of a user for whom the information about the virtual event area is stored as the acquisition information when the visit request for the virtual event area has been received.