Patent ID: 8100771

Claim:
A game device comprising: a play data storage section that stores play data of each player recorded in a form available as control data of a computer-controlled character (hereinafter called “COM character”) and identification information of the player while associating the play data with the identification information; a champion management section that manages one of the players as a champion, and manages a day when the one of the players became the champion; a login section that performs a specific login process to specify a present player; a match process section that performs a match process by controlling the COM character based on the play data stored in the play data storage section and belonging to the player managed as the champion by the champion management section and controlling a player's character based on an operation input of the present player; and a play data update section that updates the play data of the player stored in the play data storage section based on the play data of the player during the match process of the match process section, the play data including data relating to a moving speed and a travel path during actual play; the match process section controls the COM character during actual play along the travel path included in the play data about the player managed as the champion by the champion management section, monitors during actual play a collision condition between the player character and the COM character, deviates during actual play the COM character from the travel path when a collision is detected, and controls during actual play the COM character so as to gradually return to the travel path following the deviation during actual play; and the champion management section allowing the champion to remain unchanged when the present player has lost the match as a result of the match process of the match process section, and managing the present player as a new champion when the present player has won the match as a result of the match process of the match process section.