Patent ID: 8827812

Claim:
A game device for implementing a match in which a player character group corresponding to a plurality of game players competes with an opponent character or an opponent character group opposing the player character group, the game device comprising: operating character obtaining means for obtaining, for each of the plurality of game players, data on an operating character operated by the game player; teammate character obtaining means for obtaining, for at least one game player among the plurality of game players, data on one or more teammate characters selected by the game player from among a plurality of characters owned by the game player; and game execution means for implementing a match in which the player character group, to which a plurality of operating characters corresponding to the plurality of game players and the teammate character selected by the at least one game player belong, competes with the opponent character or the opponent character group, based on the data obtained by the operating character obtaining means and the data obtained by the teammate character obtaining means, wherein the game execution means includes: desired role obtaining means for obtaining a desired role of each of the operating characters, role assigning means for assigning a role to each of the operating characters, teammate character selecting means for selecting one or more teammate characters from among teammate characters belonging to the player character group, entry execution means for causing the one or more teammate characters selected by the teammate character selecting means and the respective operating characters to enter the match, and control means for controlling, based on a result of comparison between the role assigned to an operating character and the desired role of the operating character, obtained by the desired role obtaining means, selection by the teammate character selecting means of a teammate character owned by a game player operating the operating character.