Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Shin Tsuchiya

Ken Goto

Katsunori Onuki

Toshikazu Munemasa

Takeshi Hasegawa

Tadakatsu Izumi

To provide a game device capable of assisting a user to make a pass to a teammate player character in a game performed between a user character group operated by the user and an opponent character group. A setting unit sets a plurality of positions in an area around a character holding the moving object as receiving position candidates for another character to receive a pass. A receiving position selecting unit selects at least one of the receiving position candidates, based on the position of a character belonging to the opponent character group. A character selecting unit selects a character corresponding to the receiving position candidate from among the player characters belonging to the user character group other than the character holding the moving object. A character control unit moves the character corresponding to the selected receiving position candidate toward a position based on the selected receiving position candidate.

Game device, game device control method, program, and information storage medium

Provided is a game machine allowing a game player to give an instruction to perform predetermined game processing to the game machine and an instruction of the condition of when the predetermined game processing is started. The game machine performs game processing at given time intervals, updates one or more game-related parameters, and causes the update to be reflected on a game screen. A storage unit () stores a parameter condition representing the condition of parameters in correspondence with each of a plurality of items of operation information indicating details of an operation for making the game machine execute given game processing. A judging unit () judges whether or not the one or more parameters satisfy the parameter condition corresponding to operation information indicating details of a game player's operation. A game processing executing unit () starts executing the given game processing in accordance with a judgment made by the judging unit ().

Game machine, game machine control method, and information storage medium

To provide a network game system for switching a server-client machine without deteriorating the excitement of a game. A network game system () causes each of a plurality of game machines () to operate as a client and at least one of the plurality of game machines () to also operate as a server, thereby providing a game to be played by the players of the plurality of game machines (). A game play evaluation value calculation unit () calculates a play evaluation value corresponding to each of the plurality of game machines () during a game. In the case where a predetermined switching determination time arrives during the game, a server switching unit () switches the game machine () operating as the server from the game machine () currently operating as the server to another game machine () of the plurality of game machines (), based on the evaluation value calculated by the play evaluation value calculation unit ().

Network game system, game machine, game machine control method, and information storage medium

Provided is a network game system for providing a game played by players of game machines by operating at least one of the game machines as a server, in which: the game machine to be operated as a server can be appropriately selected; a measuring unit () of each of the game machines () measures a time required to exchange predetermined data between the game machine () and another game machine () of the game machines (); and a server determining unit () determines at least one of the game machines () as the game machine () to be operated as the server according to the results of the measurement by the measuring units () of the game machines ().

To provide a network game system capable of switching a server-client machine, while avoiding deterioration in the excitement of a game. A network game system () causes each of a plurality of game machines () to operate as a client and at least one of the plurality of game machines () to operate as a server. In the where a switching determination time arrives, a switching determination unit () determines whether or not to switch the game machine () operating as a server from the game machine () currently operating as the server to another game machine () of the plurality of game machines (), based on the play evaluation value corresponding to each of at least one of the game machines (). In the case where it is determined not to switch the game machine () operating as the server from the game machine () currently operating as the server to another game machine, a switching determination inhibiting unit () inhibits a switching determination unit () from making a decision during a period before a given switching inhibited period elapses.

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Minato-ku, Japan

Shin Tsuchiya