Abstract: A program causes a processor of a terminal apparatus to function as: a game progressor configured to progress a game based on content information that prescribes progression contents of the game; a first acquirer configured to acquire first progression information indicative of the degree of progress of the game in the terminal apparatus; a second acquirer configured to acquire input information that was input at another terminal apparatus progressing the game based on the content information, and second progression information indicative of the degree of progress of the game in the other terminal apparatus as of a point in time when the input information was input at the other terminal apparatus; and an output controller configured to control output of output information that corresponds to the input information acquired by the second acquirer based on the first progression information and the second progression information.

Abstract: A control system assists generation of a distribution content item representing progress of a video game played by a user. The control system includes at least one memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that executes the program to (i) provide the user with address information representing an address of material data on an effect material used for the distribution content item, (ii) under a control condition set in accordance with instructions from the user, update the material data in conjunction with progress of the video game played by the user, and (iii) in conjunction with the progress of the video game played by the user, transmit the material data to the editing system based on a request that uses the address information from an editing system that generates the distribution content item.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to the present invention stores a computer program causing a control unit of a game device, which provides a soccer game that includes a normal shot that follows a rule that the movement speed and climb angle of a ball increase according to the duration of an operation of a left operation button of a controller, to function as the following device. That is, the computer program causes the control unit to function as a device that, when an R2 button of the controller has been pressed, decides, according to the duration of the operation of the left operation button, the movement speed and climb angle of the ball in accordance with a rule which differs from that of the normal shot, and controlling display so that the ball moves at the decided movement speed and the like, as a power shot of a kind similar to the normal shot.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded therein a program, the program causes a processor to: cause a display provided on a Head Mounted Display to display a stereoscopic image to which binocular parallax is applied, the stereoscopic image being an image of a virtual space in which optional objects are disposed, and the virtual space being captured by a virtual camera; acquire orientation information on an orientation of the Head Mounted Display; when a predetermined position relationship is established between a virtual line and one optional object from among the optional objects, the virtual line having a direction according to the orientation information and intersecting with the virtual camera, identify the one option image; and when one or more optional objects are identified and a predetermined condition relating to the orientation information is satisfied, select the one or more optional objects.

Abstract: Provided is a video distribution system with which it is possible to improve the motivation of participants with respect to an event that is distributed as a recorded video. A video distribution system is connected via a network to user terminal devices, and distributes a recorded video obtained by recording status of a game event in which a plurality of participants participating therein, to the user terminal devices. And the video distribution system increases the prize money amount set for the game event according to selection of an amount increase option executed by each user via the user terminal device so as to be associated with the recorded video, and decides the individual prize money amount to be awarded to a target participant P based on the prize money amount at the end of a predetermined period.

Abstract: An acquirer acquires touch location information indicating a touch location on a touch panel. A designator designates the moving direction of an object in the game space based on the touch location information. In a case in which there are multiple paths in which the object is movable in a game space, a predictor predicts, from among the multiple paths, a path in which the object will be moving, based on the moving direction designated by the designator and a shape of an environment that restricts movement of the object in the game space. The display controller displays an image indicating a prediction result by the predictor in the game space.

Abstract: A control method for causing a computer of a game system to execute a processing for presenting players a board face in which a media placement space including placement areas where the gaming media are to be placed is provided for each player and a correspondence relation is established between one placement area of each media placement space and one placement area of another media placement space, in a form in which the correspondence relation is perceivable, a procedure for giving each player an opportunity to place each of the gaming media in each placement area; and a procedure for calculating a result of the match between the gaming media based on a parameter of each gaming media placed between the placement areas between which the correspondence relation is established.

Abstract: A program is executed by a processor causes the processor to identify at least one of a position and a posture of a first camera in a real space in which an object is arranged. The first camera is configured to capture an image of the real space. The program causes the processor to display, on a display, a first image generated based on a result of the image captured by the first camera; and display, at a position that is based on an identification result obtained by identifying the at least one of the position and the posture of the first camera within the display, a second image that corresponds to the object.

Abstract: A control system includes: one or more memories configured to store instructions; and one or more processors communicatively connected to the one or more memories and configured to execute the instructions to: acquire status data indicative of a status of a game from a game system configured to progress the game played by one or more players; generate commentary information to be played by a terminal apparatus to which a game video representative of the status of the game is delivered, the commentary information being to be played in conjunction with the game video; and use the status data and setting data specifying a commentary condition to generate the commentary information on the status of the game under the commentary condition.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for a game device having a processor, in which the program causes the processor to: receive an operation-input made by a first user; and cause a first character of a game to execute an action, based on the operation-input made by the first user, in which when a first action made by a second character of the game is executed based on an operation-input made by a second user, the program causes the processor to cause the first character to execute a second action responsive to the first action, based on the operation-input made by the first user and received by the receiver.

Abstract: A program recorded in a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a server apparatus communicable with a game apparatus that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of the video game. The program causes a processor of the server apparatus to function as: a distribution information generator configured to generate distribution information indicative of a distributed video based on the video information; and a modifiable replaying information generator configured to generate modifiable replaying information that indicates a progress status of the video game in the game apparatus and that enables a modifiable replaying of a game, of the video game in which a user of a terminal apparatus plays the video game under the progress status of the video game, in the terminal apparatus configured to display the distributed video based on the distribution information generated by the distribution information generator.

Abstract: A control system includes: at least one memory that stores a program; and at least one processor that implements the program to: manage a contest in which a plurality of participants play a competitive video game; accept a registration request of each of a plurality of users; and determine a pair of (i) any participant of the plurality of participants and (ii) any user of the plurality of users. The pair will be players of the competitive video game.

Abstract: A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a game apparatus to function as a game controller configured to execute a video game and generate video information indicative of a video of the video game; and a generator configured to generate analysis information obtained by analyzing a plurality of pieces of game message information output from a plurality of terminal apparatuses configured to display a distributed video based on the video information. The game controller is configured to impart to the video of the video game at least one of a visual effect that is in accordance with the analysis information or an auditory effect that is in accordance with the analysis information, and each piece of game message information output from the plurality of terminal apparatuses includes a message related to at least one of the distributed video or the video game.

Abstract: A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a game apparatus to function as a game controller that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of the video game; and an acquirer that acquires message information that is output from a terminal apparatus configured to display a distributed video that is based on the video information, the message information including a message related to at least one of the distributed video or the video game. The game controller incorporates the message included in the message information into the video of the video game, based on progress status information indicative of a progress status of the video game.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has recorded therein a program for causing a processor to function as: a touch information acquirer configured to acquire touch information regarding at least one of an area and a shape of a touch area on a touch panel with which an object comes in contact; and a determiner configured to determine, when the touch information acquired by the touch information acquirer indicates that a contact between the object and the touch panel is present, whether input of an instruction regarding a direction in the touch panel is present, based on the touch information.

Abstract: A distribution system distributes a viewing video to a user terminal of each of plural users who are viewers, the distribution system having a computer receiving a user operation inputted from each user terminal, the computer selecting one or more pieces of distribution data from a distribution data group including plural pieces of distribution data in response to the user operation, and the computer distributing the distribution data selected by the computer to the user terminal from which the user operation has been inputted.

Abstract: A game system is provided that can gamify selection at a selection opportunity. A game system provides, to a viewer who via a user terminal device is viewing a game screen of a baseball game provided by a game machine, a selection screen for selecting one or more of plural individual option regions that are included in the game screen of the baseball game. Furthermore, when a home run occurs in the baseball game according to a predetermined rule so as to enter (reach) any one of the plural individual option regions, the game system determines a winning region which a ball image of the home run enters and, if the winning region matches the individual option region selected in the selection screen, imparts a benefit to the viewer who made the selection.

Abstract: A device is provided with a multicore microprocessor unit (21) capable of inter-processor communication, storage (22) for storing a file describing device configuration information, and a device interface (23). Threads of the microprocessor unit are separated: a first processor core drives the OS, and meanwhile, a second processor core drives the device driver for controlling the device interface. While sharing the device configuration information by inter-processor communication, a notification driver interface for notifying the operating system kernel of configuration information on the basis of the device configuration information is loaded and the second processor core controls the device connected to the device interface by reading a scenario sequence file into the notification driver.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded therein a program executed by a processor of a server apparatus, the program causing the processor to: receive a first user's input for a competitive video game that uses (i) card objects of the first user of a first terminal apparatus, and (ii) enemy card objects of a second user of a second terminal apparatus; place, on a first deck zone, a first type card object of the first user, place, on a second deck zone, a second type card object and a third type card object; in response to a first user's input; allow the first type card object to be placed on a first area on which placement of the enemy card objects is not allowed; allow the second type card object placed on the second deck zone to be placed on a second area on which placement of at least one of the enemy card objects is allowed; and allow the third type object card placed on the second deck zone to be placed on the first area or the second area.

Abstract: A program executed by a processor causes the processor to identify, based on a result of an image captured by a first camera configured to capture an image of a user in a real space, a position of the user; display, based on the result of the image captured by the first camera, on a display, a first image representative of the user; and display, at a position that is based on an identification result obtained by identifying the position of the user, a second image that corresponds to an object in the real space.