Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Keigo Nakano

Yusuke Shiraiwa

Kosuke Yabuki

Tetsuya Nakata

Atsushi Asakura

Takumi Masuda

A game system, which is an example of a matching system, includes a game serverand a plurality of game devicesthat are connected to the game serverover a network. The game systemincludes a related player presenting sectionfor presenting, to a participating player who is attempting to join a game and for whom matchmaking is to be performed in any of matching rooms that are matching ranges, a related player related to the participating player, a matching room identification sectionfor identifying a matching room that is associated with the related player presented by the related player presenting section, and a matching processorfor performing matchmaking in the matching room identified by the matching room identification section

Matching system, information processing apparatus, server, matching method, and storage medium storing matching program

Upon receiving an input of an input character aby a user, a game apparatus stores the received input character aas an unfixed character, and displays the stored unfixed character a. The game apparatus obtains option character strings acorresponding to the input character afrom an option character string database, and receives an operation which the user performs for selecting an option character string afrom the obtained option character strings a. Upon receiving the operation for selecting an option character string a, the game apparatus determines the selected option character string ato be a fixed character string, and stores the determined fixed character string, and then outputs the stored fixed character string. Here, only when receiving the operation for selecting an option character string, the game apparatus determines a fixed character string.

Computer readable storage medium having input program stored therein, system, and input method

A game apparatus, when receiving an input of an input character by a user, obtains and displays option character strings corresponding to the input character. The option character strings displayed here are option character strings that are connectable to a word preceding the input character. Displayed as the option character strings in this manner are only character strings, each of which does not form an inappropriate expression when connected to the word preceding or following the input character. When the user has selected an option character string from these option character strings, the game apparatus determines the option character string to be a fixed character string, and displays and stores the fixed character string.

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Kyoto, Japan

Keigo Nakano