Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a computer, etc., which makes it possible to improve the usability of city building games. The computer is provided with a storage unit configured to store game contents arranged within a game space, positions of the game contents, and a template defining positions of one or more of game contents, and progresses a game by arranging the game contents within the game space based on a command by a player. The method includes when the template is applied to a predetermined area within the game space based on the command by the player, moving, by the computer, the game contents arranged within the game space to the positions of the game contents defined by the template.

Abstract: Provided are a computer program, a method, and a server in which a possibility that a load on display control increases is reduced, compared to the related art. According to an exemplary embodiment of such a configuration, first data relevant to a first position in a virtual space in which a first avatar manipulated by using a first terminal of a first user exists is acquired, whether or not a first condition is satisfied is determined, second data is received in a case where it is determined that the first condition is satisfied, control data for controlling a display unit of the first terminal such that at least the virtual object is displayed on the display unit of the first terminal is decided on the basis of the second data, and the display unit is controlled on the basis of the control data.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a position management portion, an input acquisition portion, a first image condition generator, a second image condition generator, a first determination portion, and an event generator. The first image condition generator generates a first display image viewable by the first user, from a first viewpoint corresponding to the first display medium. The second image condition generator generates a second display image viewable by the second user, from a second viewpoint corresponding to the second display medium. The first determination portion that determines whether a first predetermined condition is satisfied. The event generator causes a predetermined event to occur, that can be realized in cooperation among a plurality of display media including the first display medium and the second display medium, when the first determination portion determines that the first predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A system and a method allow for the provision of an incentive between different applications. A server stores information including, in association, a user identifier, a first identifier, and a second identifier received from a client terminal, and when receiving an incentive request, causes an application server to provide an incentive to the user pertaining to the first identifier corresponding to the second identifier based on the information.

Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed that includes a drawing portion that draws a display image for a terminal including at least one display medium positioned in a virtual space, an acquisition portion that acquires input from a user, and a position update portion that changes a position of the display medium associated with one user in the virtual space based on a first input from the one user acquired by the acquisition portion. The drawing portion draws guidance information indicating a positional relationship between a first display medium associate with the one user and a second display medium associated with another user, associating the guidance information with the first display medium.

Abstract: A control method includes displaying, at a terminal device of a first user, a first image and a second image, the first image including a first object representing the first user, and the second image including a second object representing a second user different from the first user; displaying the first image including the first object as being changed in accordance with audio data or a motion of the first user; displaying the second image including the second object as being changed in accordance with audio data or a motion of the second user; and displaying the first image including the first object as being at least partly changed in accordance with an instruction from the first user or displaying the second image including the second object as being at least partly changed in accordance with an instruction from the second user.

Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.

Abstract: A game control program for controlling a game in which a cost is set for each of a plurality of skills, the program allowing a computer to function as: a skill activation unit activating a first skill of the plurality of skills in response to a fact that an activation instruction of the first skill of which the set cost is less than or equal to a point that is used in skill activation and associated with a player is received from the player; a point subtraction unit subtracting a point corresponding to the cost that is set for the first skill from the point in response to the activation of the first skill; and a cost increase unit increasing the cost that is set for the first skill in response to the activation of the first skill.

Abstract: A computer program according allows a processor to function such that a first stream of a first data type including a motion, a sound, a comment, or information according to gifting is acquired, a second stream of a second data type including a video is acquired, data according to the first stream and data according to the second stream are synthesized, and the synthesized data is provided. In addition, the first data type includes intermediate information according to the video. In addition, the intermediate information includes depth information according to the video.

Abstract: An improved acquisition means for elements to be displayed in a user terminal, which may include a distribution circuit, a determination circuit configured to determine a predetermined part from a selection thereof, an association circuit, a first condition determination circuit configured to determine whether a first specific condition relevant to a distribution user is satisfied, and a change screen display circuit configured to display a change screen for changing the predetermined part to another part. The predetermined part may be changed on a distribution user terminal of the distribution user when the first condition determination circuit determines that the first specific condition is satisfied. The association circuit may be configured to associate the another part with the user information, and cancel the association of the predetermined part with the user information. The first specific condition may be satisfied when a specific electronic medium is associated with the user information.

Abstract: A computer program, a method, and a server device, all of which enable a further reduction in the possibility of increasing of the load to perform display control, as compared to conventional technologies, are provided.

Abstract: In a communication system including a server and a plurality of communication terminals capable of communication with the server, based on a variety of parameters indicating the status of a space formed within a game playable by the user of each communication terminal over the communication system, the server transmits advisory information, which suggests the next action for the space, to the communication terminal. The communication terminal displays a screen including the received advisory information.

Abstract: A shooting game control method, which is executed by a computer incorporated in a device including a display and a touch panel, includes accepting a touch operation on the touch panel; displaying a first frame indicative of a shooting effective range on the display in accordance with a position of the touch operation; accepting an instruction for an attack on an attack target in a state in which the first frame is displayed; determining whether the attack target in a game image displayed on the display is within the first frame or not, at a time point when the instruction for the attack has been accepted; and controlling the attack on the attack target in the game image in accordance with a result of the determining.

Abstract: One or more computer processors include (i) a distribution portion that distributes, to a viewing user terminal, information about a video including an animation of a character object of a distribution user, (ii) a receiver that receives a display request for a specified gift transmitted from the viewing user terminal, (iii) an object display device that displays a specified gift object corresponding to the specified gift in the video, based on the display request received by the receiver, (iv) a determination portion that determines whether behavior information of the distribution user or another gift object satisfies a predetermined condition associated with the specified gift object, and (v) an expression portion that changes at least one of a movement and a shape of the specified gift object when the determination portion determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. In one example, a processor generates first data related to first positional coordinates set in advance in a first virtual space and second data related to second positional coordinates set in advance in a second virtual space, the first data including first virtual reference points set on the first positional coordinates; the second data including second virtual reference points corresponding to each of the first virtual reference points; and the second data includes: data related to a basic coordinate group including the some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a predetermined magnification; and data related to a distortion coordinate group including some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a magnification different from the predetermined magnification.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of synchronizing an online game, and a server device, that do not require centralized information management, reduce the processing burden on each device during online communication, and allow for continuation of processing in an offline environment. A method, according to the present disclosure, of synchronizing an online game that allows for transmission and reception of information related to game processing between a first client terminal and a second client terminal via a server includes: receiving, from the first client terminal connected online, first information related to game processing on the first client terminal; determining whether the first information is information that determines a game status; and storing the first information on the server and transmitting the first information to the second client terminal when the first information is determined to be information that determines the game status.

Abstract: Provided are a program, a control method, and an information processing apparatus which may provide an improved user interface on which a user may easily and efficiently execute various processes on a game content. The information processing apparatus may be caused to execute a game content specifying step of specifying a selected game content on the basis of first input operation data from an operation unit, a step of retrieving information from a storage unit, a step of specifying a direction from a start point to an end point of a second input operation on the basis of second input operation data from an operation unit, and an execution step of executing one process associated with the direction from the start point to the end point of the second input operation in the information from the storage unit on the selected game content.

Abstract: An information processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to generate first information for displaying a video on an information processing apparatus; transmit the first information to the information processing apparatus; receive operation information regarding a plurality of operations performed on a first icon to take an action on the video displayed on the information processing apparatus; and determine, based on the operation information, a display mode of an object corresponding to the first icon, wherein the processing circuitry generates the first information for displaying the object on the video in the display mode.

Abstract: Provided are a computer program, a method, and a server in which a possibility that a load on display control increases is reduced, compared to the related art. According to an exemplary embodiment of such a configuration, first data relevant to a first position in a virtual space in which a first avatar manipulated by using a first terminal of a first user exists is acquired, whether or not a first condition is satisfied is determined, second data is received in a case where it is determined that the first condition is satisfied, control data for controlling a display unit of the first terminal such that at least the virtual object is displayed on the display unit of the first terminal is decided on the basis of the second data, and the display unit is controlled on the basis of the control data.

Abstract: A computer program, a method, and a server device, all of which enable a further reduction in the possibility of increasing of the load to perform display control, as compared to conventional technologies, are provided.