GAME DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF GAME DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game with new amusement of enjoying collecting characters by making a new character appear in response to the reception of a signal transmitted from another communication device. SOLUTION: If an insect character appearance control part 311 detects the reception of a beacon periodically transmitted from an access point (AP) present in the current radio communication possible range of a player's machine, the insect character appearance control part 311 firstly detects the MAC address of the AP from which the beacon is transmitted. Then, if the detected MAC address does not match the previously detected MAC address, the insect character appearance control part determines whether an insect character should be made to appear or not according to the rate of appearance calculated by an appearance frequency regulating part 311a. If it is determined that the insect character should be made to appear, the insect character appearance control part determines the kind of the insect character to appear referring to insect character information 820, and executes the control to display moving images of the insect character on an insect cage image on a lower screen 400b. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT