Game apparatus and method for controlling timing for executive action by game character

摘要

A game apparatus and method quickens the progress of a game when controlling, based on an elapsed time, permission to execute action that can be performed by a game character. In the game apparatus and method, a game character which executes an action after a preset time elapses, and the preset time, are stored in a memory, with the game character corresponding to the preset time. By reading and adjusting a preset time for at least one game characters excluding the present game character, it is determined whether the corresponding game character is permitted to execute an action In accordance with whether the adjusted preset time elapses.