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: A game processing device controls a first mounted display worn by a first player to display a virtual space in association with a first virtual position in the virtual space, and controls a second mounted display worn by a second player to display the virtual space in association with a second virtual position in the virtual space. The device also determines a position of the first player in a real space based on an output of a first sensor, moves the first virtual position in accordance with the position of the first player, determines a position of the second player in the real space based on an output of a second sensor, and moves the second virtual position in accordance with the position of the second player. The device produces a game special effect when a distance between the first and second virtual positions is within a predetermined range.

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: The server device includes: a storage unit that associates and stores multiple first characteristic data sets for each user and associates and stores second characteristic data for each group to which the multiple first characteristic data sets belong; a different-user-selecting unit that selects a different user when a predetermined event occurs while a game is being played; a group formation-assessing unit that determines whether or not all of the first characteristic data sets belonging to a group are included in the first characteristic data sets associated with the user and the different user; and an action-executing unit that executes predetermined actions using, in addition to the first characteristic data sets associated with the user and the different user, the second characteristic data associated with the group for which it has been determined that all of the pertinent first characteristic data sets are included.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first state change processor, a history memory, a user information memory, and an association processor. The first state change processor changes an association state of a specific virtual reality medium usable in a virtual space from a state of being associated with a first user to a state of being associated with a second user. The association processor generates or updates predetermined information related to the specific virtual reality medium, based on the user information related to at least one target user among a plurality of target users including (i) a past user associated with the specific virtual reality medium in the association state included in the change history and (ii) the second user associated with the specific virtual reality medium.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to a video distribution system for live distributing a video containing animation of a character object generated based on a motion of a distributor user. The video distribution system includes one or more computer processors that execute computer-readable instructions to: display a display instruction object on a distributor user device that is used by the distributor user in response to reception of a first display request for a first gift from a viewing user; and display the first gift in the video in response to operation on the display instruction object.

Abstract: A program, a game control method, and an information processing apparatus, which are capable of improving operability of a game. A program causing an information processing apparatus to execute a step of causing an object arranged on a field object in a virtual space in which a coordinate system having a first axis and a second axis is set to be displayed on a screen in which a coordinate system having a third axis and a fourth axis is set, a step of detecting first and second positions on the screen while the first user operation is being detected, and a moving step of moving the object according to a first user operation.

Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a computer and the like that cause players to effectively use possessed game contents in a game and increase the attractiveness of the game. The computer includes a storage unit that stores one or more game contents possessed by a player and a game content group, the one or more game contents each having a parameter value, the game content group being composed by using at least one of the one or more game contents, and makes a game proceed based on an instruction from a player. The method includes the steps of modifying the parameter value of a common game content in the game content group possessed by the player and being the same type as the one or more game contents other than the game content group, and processing an event by using the game content group whose parameter value is modified.

Abstract: A game control method, game server, and program can increase variations on methods for acquiring items, increase the predictability of acquisition of an item with a high rarity value or the like, and heighten interest in the game. Included are the steps of presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when receiving, from the communication terminal, a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal, determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when receiving an item acquisition request from the communication terminal, and changing the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.

Abstract: A game system includes (i) a memory that stores a user parameter related to a user of a game in association with user identification information that identifies the user, and (ii) one or more processors. The one or more processors (i) count an elapsed time since a first auto mode was started, and (ii) in the first auto mode, perform the game part of the game without input from the user until the elapsed time reaches a maximum running time that is determined based on the user parameter.

Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to detect a state of a first user distributing content including an image of a first virtual space, the image including a plurality of layers; display the image, which is viewable by the first user watching the content via a first terminal or viewable by a second user watching the content via a second terminal; and store a first display medium associated with the first user. To display the image, the processing circuitry generates a first image region of a layer, of the plurality of layers, relating to the first display medium, and generates a second image region of a layer, of the plurality of layers, relating to a first user interface, and the processing circuitry changes a state of the first display medium in the first image region based on the detected state of the first user.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium containing a program, which, when executed by processing circuitry of a terminal device that communicates with a server device, causes the processing circuitry to: execute a game part, the server device being for storing ranking information including a plurality of first points each corresponding to each of a plurality of user groups to each of which one or more users belong, the ranking information also including a rank of each user group determined based on the corresponding first point; in response to an execution result of the game part satisfying a first condition, transmit, to the server device, a request for changing the first point corresponding to a first user group among the user groups to which the user of the terminal device belongs; and receive, from the server device, the ranking information updated based on the first point after being changed.

Abstract: An item can be provided to a user by a lottery and the item odds can be changed in accordance with a prescribed condition. A control method, performed by a server device connected via a communication line to a terminal device operated by a user, can be initiated by selecting a lottery mode from among a plurality of lottery modes. Following the selection of the lottery mode, the system may hold a drawing from among a plurality of types of items on the basis of the selected lottery mode, and, following the holding of the drawing, may ensure that the won item is provided to the user via the terminal device.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored thereon instructions to be executed on by a game server, the game server and corresponding method which cause the game server to perform the steps of: provide a networked multiplayer battle game over a network, storing a battle history including an identifier of an opponent with whom a user has battled in the multiplayer battle game; determining, based on the battle history and an identifier of an opponent with whom a battle begins, a procedure for conducting the battle in the battle game to be one of a first mode for conducting the battle based on user operations and a second mode for conducting the battle with fewer user operations than in the first mode, and conducting the battle with the determined procedure.

Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to transmit, to a viewing user terminal, information about a video including a character object of a distributing user to display the video on the viewing user terminal, accept operation information from a distributing user terminal of the distributing user, and perform a display control process, on the video in accordance with the accepted operation information, by applying a predetermined presentation effect to the character object included in the video, or displaying a presentation screen including a predetermined character image related to the character object. The processing circuitry performs the display control process in response to accepting first operation information from the distributing user terminal, and the processing circuitry performs the display control process in response to not accepting second operation information from the distributing user terminal for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: Provided is a system that includes circuitry that transmits first image data to a second communication terminal in response to a first request for image transmission from a first communication terminal; transmits second image data to the first communication terminal in response to a second request for image transmission from the second communication terminal; and transmits, in a case that the first request for image transmission and the second request for image transmission are a predetermined combination, third image data corresponding to the predetermined combination to the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing an online shooting game by a game server communicatively connected to a player terminal. The player terminal may display a virtual online shooting game environment based on information received from the game server. Providing an online shooting game may include: selecting a basic identification range within a virtual online shooting game environment displayed on the player terminal; detecting one or more enemy characters that are within the basic identification range; determining one of the detected one or more enemy characters as an automatic tracking object; and allowing an aiming point to automatically track movement of the automatic tracking object within the basic identification range.

Abstract: An information processing system distributes a video and includes processing circuitry configured to accept selection of a first object from a first information processing terminal; transmit, in accordance with the selection, a predetermined notification to a second information processing terminal associated with the first object; receive a response to the predetermined notification from the second information processing terminal; determine a state of a first screen displayed on the first information processing terminal; and decide, based on the determined state of the first screen, a second screen to be displayed on the second information processing terminal.

Abstract: An information processing device displays a video including an avatar object on a display based on video data received from a server, displays a group to which a distributing user belongs in an identifiable manner in a video view or a video distribution list including images of multiple videos, and sends a display request to display an object in one of the videos to the server.

Abstract: A game processing device controls a first mounted display worn by a first player to display a virtual space in association with a first virtual position in the virtual space, and controls a second mounted display worn by a second player to display the virtual space in association with a second virtual position in the virtual space. The device also determines a position of the first player in a real space based on an output of a first sensor, moves the first virtual position in accordance with the position of the first player, determines a position of the second player in the real space based on an output of a second sensor, and moves the second virtual position in accordance with the position of the second player. The device produces a game special effect when a distance between the first and second virtual positions is within a predetermined range.