Game program and game device

• Main Author: SHIRAIWA YUSUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.05.2007
• Subjects: AMUSEMENTS; CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; SPORTS; VIDEO GAMES

A game device regularly transmits communication status information to communication partners thereof, the communication status information indicating whether or not communication between the game device and each of the communication partners is possible. If, when the game device receives from each of the communication partners the communication status information about said each of the communication partners, the communication status information about any of the communication partners indicates a particular game device as being unable to perform communication, the game device updates the communication status information about the game device such that the communication status information about the game device indicates the particular game device as being unable to perform communication. When the communication status information about all of the communication partners indicate a particular game device as being unable to perform communication, the game device ceases communicating with the game device. This makes it possible to disconnect from a network a game device whose connection status to the other user terminals in the network is unstable or which is in a state of connection-disabled, thereby preventing a status of a game commonly executed by user terminals in the game system from being differently displayed on a screen of each of the user terminals.