GAME MANAGEMENT DEVICE, GAME MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a player with a game environment in which the player hardly feels a sense of mannerism by allowing the player to easily create a new game friend relationship with other player in a game where an upper limit number of game friend players with whom each player can create a game friend relationship is set.SOLUTION: A game management device communicates with terminal devices of respective players and manages game friend relationships in a game in which an upper limit number of friend players is set. The game management device includes: a game friend management means 54 for managing a game friend relationship by storing information associating two players for whom a game friend relationship has been established, with each other; a game friend period setting means 56 for setting a game friend period for the two players to continue the game friend relationship between the two players for whom the game friend relationship has been established; and a game friend relationship cancelling means 57 for automatically cancelling the game friend relationship between the two relevant players when the game friend period set for the two players for whom the game friend relationship has been established terminates.