Patent ID: 7361084

Claim:
A recording medium storing an executable game progress control program which configures a computer device to drive a display, accept input from a player via a keyboard and via a pointing device, and to operate as an apparatus, wherein the apparatus as configured by the game progress control program comprises: a display device displaying on the display a game image including a plurality of characters; an input device receiving from a player an instruction input by means of movement operation and button operation made with the pointing device or key operation made with the keyboard; a game execution device operating to execute a game which progresses through alternation of offense and defense between a player team and a computer-controlled team, or an opposing player team, using a ball character wherein said game execution device includes: defense operation means receiving, via said input device, an instruction of defensive movement for a defense character using said pointing device or said keyboard, and in response thereto causing the defense character to perform a defensive movement when the player team is the defensive side; offense operation means receiving, via said input device, an instruction of offensive movement for an offense character using said pointing device or said keyboard, and in response thereto causing the offense character to perform an offensive movement when the player team is the offensive side; and at least either said defense operation means or said offense operation means functioning to receive, via said input device, a prescribed key operation of said keyboard and, in response to the prescribed key operation, operating to effect the following: move a position of a prescribed character related to a game action, which is a corresponding one of a defense operation or an offense operation, from a position displaced from a position occupied at a beginning of a control period of the game action, to a prescribed home position after initiation of the control period of the game action and prior to completion of the control period, and locate the prescribed character at said prescribed home position at a beginning of at least a following occurrence of said control period, wherein: said keyboard includes a set of predefined keys; said display includes positions at locations differing from each other and which compose a set of home positions; and each of said set of predefined keys of said keyboard is operable to effect said prescribed key operation, each of said predefined keys is mapped to one of said set of home positions assigned thereto, and operation of any of said predefined keys as said prescribed key operation functions to move the position of the prescribed character to the mapped set of home positions assigned to an operated one of said set of predefined keys each time said operated one of said set of predefined keys is depressed after the initiation of the control period of the game action and prior to the completion of the control period.