Patent ID: 8246459

Claim:
An apparatus for a performance game, comprising: a game screen controller for displaying a plurality of track areas in a game screen, and controlling notes in such a manner that the notes are displayed for each of the plurality of track areas while moving toward a position where determination targets are located; a track area controller for setting one track area of the plurality of track areas as an activation track area according to an activation track area movement operation of a user; and a performance operation controller for comparing positions of the notes and the determination targets in the track area set as the activation track area to determine accuracy of a performance operation when a performance operation signal is generated according to a performance operation of the user, wherein the track area controller recognizes a direction for the activation track area movement operation and sets one track area of the plurality of track areas as the activation track area according to the recognized direction, and wherein the track area controller sets one track area of the plurality of track areas as the activation track area according to the recognized direction for the activation track area movement operation and maintains the set activation track area while the direction is continuously recognized, and sets a predefined default track area of the plurality of track areas as the activation track area when the direction for the activation track area movement operation is not recognized or the direction continuously recognized for the movement operation of the activation track area is not recognized any longer.