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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2013
Namco Bandai Games Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Masataka Shimono, Fujisawa, JP;
Shuntaro Watanabe, Ichikawa, JP;
Takamasa Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Miki Tomisawa, Utsunomiya, JP;
Norimasa Matsuura, Yokohama, JP;
BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Input information that selects one card among five cards that are arranged in one direction in a predetermined area of a game screen is received, and a player character is caused to make a motion corresponding to the selected card. When three cards to which an identical attribute is assigned are adjacently disposed in the predetermined area, the three cards are replaced with one card to which the same attribute as that of the three cards is assigned, but which differs in type from the three cards, the card positioned in the rightward direction relative to the replaced cards is shifted in the leftward direction, and an additional two cards are disposed in the space formed by shifting the card.