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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
Takayuki Niwa, Honolulu, HI (US);
Square Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A player operates an input device causing a player character to move on a map including a plurality of encountering areas where the player character encounters an enemy character. An encounter setting value set for each one of the encountering areas where the player character encounters the enemy character is stored in a memory. The player character encounters the enemy character in a probability corresponding to the encounter setting value when it steps into an encountering area, and then processing for a battle held between the player character and the enemy character is performed. When the player character wins the battle against the enemy character, the encounter setting value for the area is updated, so that the probability that the player character encounters the enemy character sequentially decreases.