Game server device, game terminal device, secondary game management system, and secondary game management method

A game terminal device communicably connected to a game server device which is communicably connected to at least another game terminal device, and in which development of a game is controlled by receiving operations from a player,

• the device comprising:
• player information transmitting means for transmitting player capability information contained in player information received from a player at a time of game commencement to the game service device;
• secondary game receiving means for receiving during game execution a secondary game, which is transmitted from the game server device, in which secondary games whose content differ from that of the game are classified according to a player capability respectively and stored, the secondary game to be received being classified according to a player capability;
• play result receiving means for receiving a play result of a player in the secondary game from the game server device;
• play result transmitting means for transmitting a received play result to the game service device;
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• display processing means for receiving from the game server device a tabulated result of play results of the secondary game received from each game terminal device and performing display on a monitor.

A secondary game management system, comprising:

• a game server device which is communicably connected to a plurality of game terminal devices on which development of a game is controlled by receiving operations from players, and which is capable of monitoring at least whether or not a game is being executed, the game server device including:
• player information receiving means for obtaining player capability information contained in information on a player who plays on a game terminal device;
• secondary game storage means for classifying, according to player capability, secondary games whose content differs from that of the game and storing the classified secondary games respectively;
• secondary game distribution means for distributing to the game terminal device from the secondary game storage means during game execution a secondary game in the classification according to a capability of a player, who is in play, obtained from the game terminal device;
• play result receiving means for receiving play results in regard to play of the distributed secondary game from the plurality of game terminal devices;
• tabulating means for tabulating the play results received from the game terminal devices, respectively;
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• tabulated result transmitting means for returning the tabulated result to the game terminal devices that have transmitted the play results;
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• a game terminal device communicably connected to the game server device which is communicably connected to at least another game terminal device, and in which development of a game is controlled by receiving operations from a player,
• the game terminal device comprising:
• player information transmitting means for transmitting player capability information contained in player information received from a player at a time of game commencement to the game service device;
• secondary game receiving means for receiving during game execution a secondary game, which is transmitted from the game server device, in which secondary games whose content differ from that of the game are classified according to a player capability respectively and stored, the second game to be received being classified according to a player capability;
• play result receiving means for receiving a play result of a player in the secondary game from the game server device;
• play result transmitting means for transmitting a received play result to the game service device;
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• display processing means for receiving from the game server device a tabulated result of play results of the secondary game received from each game terminal device and performing display on a monitor.

A secondary game management method of, with a plurality of game terminal devices on which development of a game is controlled by receiving operations from players and a game server device communicably connected to the plurality of game terminal devices being provided, providing a secondary game from the game server device to the game terminal devices during game execution, the method comprising:

• storing on the game server device secondary games, whose content differs from that of the game, classified according to a player capability respectively;
• receiving, at the game server device, player capability information contained in player information received at a game terminal device at a time of game commencement at each game terminal device;
• distributing to these game terminal devices a secondary game in a classification according to a capability of a player, who is in play, obtained from the game terminal device at which the player information has been received;
• receiving a play result of the secondary game that has been played using the game terminal device at which the player information has been received, and transmitting this play result to the game server device;
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• tabulating at the game server device the play results received from the game terminal devices respectively, returning the tabulated results to the game terminal devices that have transmitted the play results, and displaying the tabulated results on a monitor of each game terminal device.