Patent ID: 8246465

Claim:
A game system including a server and a plurality of terminal machines capable of communicating with the server, a game being executed based on operations of a player by consuming predetermined virtual game value in each of the plurality of terminal machines, wherein the server comprises: a setting information storage device for storing setting state information indicating a state relating to the game to be set in the terminal machine as local state information of the terminal machine, the setting state information being stored as information to be shared among the plurality of terminal machines; a setting information update device for updating, when the update information is obtained from any one of the terminal machines, the update information indicating a state relating to the game at an end of the game in the terminal machine, the setting state information of the setting information storage device so as to indicate the state relating to the game indicated by the update information; and a setting information providing device for providing the setting state information of the setting information storage device to another one of the terminal machines regardless of a player when the setting state information is required by the terminal machine; and each of the plurality of terminal machines comprises: a setting information obtaining device for requiring the setting state information from the server when a starting operation of the game is performed to obtain the setting state information from the server, and setting the obtained setting state information as local state information indicating a state relating to the game of its own; a game control device executing the game based on the local state information; a local information control device for varying the local state information with situations of the game; and an update information transmission device for transmitting the local state information as the update information to the server when an ending operation of the game is performed.