Game providing device

A storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as a game providing device for providing a game to be executed by a plurality of players communicatively interconnected, the computer being operable to access a content information storage unit configured to store information about a plurality of game contents used in a game and an area information storage unit configured to store information about a plurality of areas, wherein the plurality of game contents are to be placed in the plurality of areas, the program causing the computer to perform:

• a content determination process for determining, in response to a request from each of the plurality of players, a game content available to the player from the plurality of game contents stored in the content information storage unit;
• an area selection accepting process for accepting, from the player, selection of an area from the plurality areas stored in the area information storage unit, wherein the determined game content is to be placed in the selected area;
• a content placing process for placing the game content in the selected area, wherein the game content is placed in the selected area;
• an elapsed time determination process for determining an elapsed time from the placement of the game content in the area;
• a point granting process for granting, in response to the placement of the game content in the area, points corresponding to the area to the player;
• a placement cancelling process for cancelling the placement of the game content by the content placing process when a predetermined condition including one condition that the elapsed time reaches a predetermined upper limit is satisfied;
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• a result decision process for deciding a result of the game according to points granted to each of the plurality of players.