Game device

Abstract

A game device is disclosed which includes a game controller configured to control the execution of a game, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the same player has continuously played the game executed by the game controller, and a game auxiliary process unit configured to execute a first game auxiliary process that will provide effects or information to the player when a predetermined process execution condition is satisfied before a predetermined time, and execute a second game auxiliary process that is different from the first game auxiliary process when the predetermined process execution condition is satisfied after the predetermined time.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-219942. The entire disclosure of Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-219942 is hereby incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates a game device that will provide effects or information in a game, and more particularly to a game device that will provide effects or information when a predetermined process execution condition is satisfied during the game. [0004] 2. Background Information [0005] Game devices generally provide effects in accordance with the execution of a game that build up the excitement in the game, as well as provide information and the like to players, such as an explanation of the rules of the game and advertisements. These effects and the provision of information are repeatedly performed each time the same process execution condition is satisfied by a player t...

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Benefits of technology

[0012] Thus, it will be possible for the present game device to know when the same player is playing a game from the determination results produced by the determination unit. As a result, if the same player satisfies the predetermined process execution condition for the first time during the one play period, the original effects or information that correspond to the process execution condition will be provided to the player based on the first game auxiliary process. Furthermore, when the same player satisfies the same process execution condition two or more times during this time period, the effects or information to be provided can be made different from those of the initial first game auxiliary process based upon the second game auxiliary process. Thus, it will be possible to reduce the situation in which the same effects or information corresponding to the same process execution condition are repeatedly provided to the same player, without receiving an operation from the player. The change from the first game auxiliary process to the second game auxiliary process is not limited to the time when the effects and the information are provided for the second time and thereafter, but can be set to a different time as necessary.

[0052] According to the fifteenth aspect of the present invention, the game device can satisfy the desire of a player to have the changed effects or information revert back to the previous effects or information.

Problems solved by technology

However, repeatedly providing the same effects and the same information will eventually annoy a player.

As a result, game performance will deteriorate for regular players who play a game in the game device for a long period of time or multiple times, due to the same effects and the same information being repeatedly provided.

However, regular players are not generally interested in functions that are not related to game execution, and thus many regular players do not use these functions.

Thus, even if some regular players find the effects or the provision of information to be annoying, only a few will actually execute the effect cancellation operation in order to cancel the effects.

Therefore, a conventional game device having an effect cancellation device is not very effective in inhibiting the deterioration in game performance for regular players.

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