Message character string output system, control method thereof, and information storage medium

A method of controlling a message string output system including a plurality of game devices networked in a network game system, each of said game devices including an input unit, the control method comprising:

• causing a message string which is input by the input unit to be displayed on a display unit of another of said plurality of game devices
• acquiring from a storage user identification information corresponding to a message string which is input by the input unit;
• judging step in a processor whether the message string input by the input unit contains a specific string stored in a specific string storage which stores a specific string;
• updating input status information stored in an input status information storage, which stores, in correspondence with user identification information, input status information which indicates an input status of the specific string, in correspondence with the user identification information acquired in the acquiring, the updating based on a judgment result in the judging;
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• determining an output form of a specific string part contained in the message string which is input by the input unit based on the input status information stored in the input status information storage in correspondence with the user identification information acquired in the acquiring unit, so as to display the specific string part on the output unit of said another of said plurality of game devices.

A non-transitory computer readable information storage medium which stores a program for causing a computer to function as a message string output system which comprises a plurality of game devices networked in a network game system, each of said game devices including an input means, and also to function as:

• an output control means for causing a message string which is input by the input unit of one of said plurality of game devices to be output to output unit of another of said plurality of game devices
• specific string storage means for storing a specific string;
• input status information storage means for storing input status information which indicates an input status of the specific string in correspondence with user identification information;
• user identification information acquiring means for acquiring user identification information corresponding to a message string which is input by the input unit;
• judging means for judging whether or not the message string which is input by the input unit contains a specific string stored in the specific string storage means;
• and
• input status information updating means for updating, based on a judgment result by the judging means, the input status information stored in the input status information storage
• means in correspondence with the user identification information acquired by the user identification information acquiring means, wherein
• the output control means comprises output form determining means for determining an output form of a specific string part contained in the message string which is input by the input unit, based on the input status information stored in the input status information storage means in correspondence with the user identification information acquired by the user identification information acquiring means so as to display the specific string part on the output unit of said another of said plurality of game devices.