Game device and storage medium

1 . A game device for playing a game in which a character appears, the game device comprising:

a display controller configured to cause a first character related to the game that is played on the game device to be displayed on a display of the game device; and

a communication circuit configured to perform communication by a first communication method of transmitting and receiving information to and from a first game device of game devices other than the game device and a second communication method of transmitting and receiving information to and from an external device different from the first game device,

wherein the communication circuit is configured to:

obtain, from the first game device, information about one or more second characters that appear in the game that is played on the first game device through the first communication method, and

obtain, from the external device, information about one or more third characters that appear in the game that is played on a second game device of the game devices other than the game device through the second communication method, and

wherein the display controller is configured to cause the first character and a character selected from the one or more second characters and the one or more third characters to be displayed concurrently on the display during the game.

2 . The game device according to claim 1 , wherein the display controller causes at least one of the selected characters to be displayed together with the first character when the first character moves to a predetermined area.

3 . The game device according to claim 1 , further comprising an operation input interface configured to receive an operation input from a user,

wherein the first character is a character whose motion is controlled in response to an operation input from a user of the game device in the game that is played on the game device,

wherein the one or more second characters are characters whose motion is controlled in response to an operation input from a user of the first game device in the game that is played on the first game device, and

wherein the one or more third characters are characters whose motion is controlled in response to an operation input from a user of the second game device in the game that is played on the second game device.

4 . The game device according to claim 3 , wherein motion of the selected characters in a predetermined area is controlled without being based on an operation input from a user.

5 . The game device according to claim 1 , wherein a number of the third characters included in the selected characters is greater than a number of the second characters included in the selected characters.

6 . The game device according to claim 5 , further comprising a lottery circuit for performing lottery as to whether to cause the one or more second characters to be displayed in connection with display of a predetermined area,

wherein when a result of lottery by the lottery circuit is a winning, the selected characters comprise the one or more second characters.

7 . The game device according to claim 6 , wherein the lottery by the lottery circuit is performed on a condition that information about the one or more second characters has been obtained from the first game device using the first communication method after previous lottery has been performed.

8 . The game device according to claim 7 , wherein the one or more second characters that are included in the selected characters when the result of lottery is a winning is the one or more second characters whose information has been recently obtained from the first game device using the first communication method.

9 . The game device according to claim 5 , further comprising an input interface configured to receive an operation input,

wherein a predetermined area comprises a plurality of regions, and

wherein the display controller is configured to:

place different characters among the selected characters in the plurality of regions, respectively, and

change a region to be displayed among the plurality of regions, in response to an operation input made during display of the predetermined area.

10 . The game device according to claim 9 , wherein one region of the plurality of regions is determined as a region that is first displayed when the first character moves to the predetermined area, and

wherein the display controller is configured to place the one or more third characters, which satisfies a predetermined condition, of the selected characters in the region that is first displayed.

11 . The game device according to claim 1 , wherein the display controller is configured to further cause the information about the one or more second characters and the information about the one or more third characters to be displayed on the display.

12 . The game device according to claim 11 , wherein the information about the one or more second characters comprises information not included in the information about the one or more third characters.

13 . The game device according to claim 11 , wherein the information about the one or more second characters comprises information about a user of the first game device.

14 . The game device according to claim 1 , wherein the display controller is configured to cause a character selected from the one or more third characters and the one or more second characters whose information has been recently obtained from the first game device using the first communication method to be displayed in a predetermined area during the game.

15 . The game device according to claim 1 , further comprising a management circuit configured to manage information on a character obtained by the communication circuit,

wherein the management circuit is configured to:

register the information about the one or more second characters obtained through the first communication method in a first list,

register the information about the one or more third characters obtained through the second communication method in a second list different from the first list, and

make list update conditions different between the first list and the second list, and

wherein the display controller is configured to cause the selected characters to be displayed in a predetermined area based on the information about the one or more second characters registered in the first list and the information about the one or more third characters registered in the second list.

16 . The game device according to claim 15 , wherein the management circuit is configured to replace, on a condition that the one or more third characters are displayed in the predetermined area based on the information about the one or more third characters registered in the second list, the information about the one or more third characters registered at least in the second list with information about the one or more third characters newly obtained when communicatively connected to the external device next time using the second communication method.

17 . The game device according to claim 16 , wherein the management circuit is configured to replace, on the condition that the one or more third characters are displayed in the predetermined area based on the information about the one or more third characters registered in the second list, all information registered in the second list with information about the one or more third characters newly obtained when communicatively connected to the external device next time using the second communication method.

18 . The game device according to claim 15 , wherein the communication circuit newly obtains the information about the one or more second characters when communicatively connected to the first game device using the first communication method,

wherein when information about a same character as the newly obtained information about the one or more second characters has been registered in the first list, the management circuit updates the information about the same character registered in the first list based on the newly obtained information about the one or more second characters, and

wherein when information about the same character as the newly obtained information about the one or more second characters has not been registered in the first list, the management circuit registers the newly obtained information about the one or more second characters in the first list.

19 . The game device according to claim 18 , wherein the first list has an upper limit on a number of pieces of information about the one or more second characters that can be registered, and

wherein when information about the same character as the newly obtained information about the one or more second characters has not been registered in the first list and a number of pieces of the information about the one or more second characters registered in the first list reaches the upper limit, the management circuit replaces oldest information registered in the first list with the newly obtained information about the one or more second characters.

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as the game device according to claim 1 .