Recording medium and game control method

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a game program for causing a computer, which realizes an electronic game that proceeds as a result of objects being arranged in a game field in which squares with a predetermined size are provided in a form of a lattice grid, to execute:

• processing for arranging, in the game field, an arrangement object constituted by a plurality of unit elements having a size that corresponds to each of the squares being combined;
• processing for determining whether or not a group of unit elements arranged adjacent to each other in the game field forms a predetermined shape;
• processing for managing a region including the group of unit elements that forms the predetermined shape in the game field as an erasure-determined region;
• processing for erasing, from the game field, the group of unit elements included in the erasure-determined region, of groups of unit elements arranged in the game field, if the erasure-determined region satisfies a predetermined condition, and leaving unit elements that are not included in the erasure-determined region, in squares in which these unit elements are arranged;
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• processing for performing control such that a new arrangement object can be arranged in squares from which the group of unit elements included in the erasure-determined region have been erased;
• wherein the predetermined condition related to the erasure-determined region includes a condition of a period required to elapse until the group of unit elements included in the erasure-determined region are erased;
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• if, as a result of a new arrangement object being arranged, a group of unit elements is newly formed that has the predetermined shape and that is not adjacent to the erasure-determined region that is already present, the group of unit elements included in the erasure-determined region that is already present is erased independently of the period required to elapse.