Patent ID: 8529348

Claim:
A game apparatus capable of executing a predetermined game in accordance with operation inputs performed by a player, and communicating with another game apparatus, the game apparatus comprising: an operation data obtaining unit for obtaining operation data outputted from an input device; an image data generation unit for generating image data comprising an image which represents the player operating the game apparatus in accordance with the operation data; a player character control unit for causing a player character represented by the image data and appearing in a virtual game world to perform an action in accordance with the operation data; an operation tendency data generation unit for generating, based on actions performed by the player character controlled by the player character control unit, operation tendency data which indicates a tendency in operations performed by the player operating the player character; a player data storage memory for storing image data of the player character controlled by the player character control unit and the operation tendency data generated by the operation tendency data generation unit; a transmission unit for transmitting, to said another game apparatus, a group of the image data and the operation tendency data stored in the player data storage memory; a reception unit for receiving a group of the image data and the operation tendency data transmitted from said another game apparatus; a non-player data storage memory for storing the group of the image data and the operation tendency data of said another game apparatus which the reception unit has received; a display control unit for, based on the image data of said another game apparatus stored in the non-player data storage memory, displaying on a display device an image of a non-player character indicated by the image data; and a non-player character control unit for controlling, based on the operation tendency data of said another game apparatus stored in the non-player data storage memory, an action performed by the non-player character in the virtual game world.