Abstract: An example of an information processing apparatus displays, on a display device, a game image including a virtual game field where a player character is placed. The information processing apparatus generates a unified equipment object based on an equipment object and a material object, wherein the unified equipment object has an external appearance obtained by unifying together the equipment object and the material object. When a unification instruction is given while in a state where the display device is displaying a scene where the player character equipped with an equipment object and a material object are placed on the game field, the information processing apparatus generates the unified equipment object; and the information processing apparatus updates the game image so as to make the material object disappear and change the equipment object equipped on the player character to the unified equipment object.

Abstract: An exemplary information processing system generates an assembled object by assembling a plurality of virtual objects based on an input by a user. The plurality of virtual objects include virtual power objects each configured to provide power to the assembled object and a virtual controller object. While the virtual power object and the virtual controller object are included in the assembled object, the information processing system causes the one or more virtual power objects to operate to move the assembled object in a predetermined traveling direction, and causes a moving direction of the movable object to change based on an input by the user.