Abstract: In a game machine 1 for displaying an option screen that displays an option constitution image SEP indicating two or more options CHC on a display 11 so as to select the options by a player, two or more options are located on the option constitution image SEP, being scattered on a plane when displaying the options CHC. When locating the options on the option constitution image and displaying these, such a control is done that the letters comprising each option are set by a different size and the options having respectively different size of letters are located on the option constitution image. The letters comprising each option displayed on the option constitution image are enlarged or reduced every option at a predetermined display time cycle.

Abstract: Multiple object information, in which first kind of object information indicating information on a first kind of object is associated with second kind of object information indicating information on a second kind of object, is stored in a multiple object information memory. The second kind of object is an object protected against a damage by means of the first kind of object. Multiple objects constructed by the first and second kinds of objects are displayed on a game screen on the basis of the multiple object information stored in the multiple object information memory. A damage cause indicating a cause of the damage that the displayed multiple objects receives is specified. At least the damage, which the second kind of object receives, is specified on the basis of the specified damage cause and a state of the first kind of object in the video game.

Abstract: In a game machine 1 for displaying an option screen that displays an option constitution image SEP indicating two or more options CHC on a display 11 so as to select the options by a player, two or more options are located on the option constitution image SEP, being scattered on a plane when displaying the options CHC. When locating the options on the option constitution image and displaying these, such a control is done that the letters comprising each option are set by a different size and the options having respectively different size of letters are located on the option constitution image. The letters comprising each option displayed on the option constitution image are enlarged or reduced every option at a predetermined display time cycle.

Abstract: Multiple object information, in which first kind of object information indicating information on a first kind of object is associated with second kind of object information indicating information on a second kind of object, is stored in a multiple object information memory. The second kind of object is an object protected against a damage by means of the first kind of object. Multiple objects constructed by the first and second kinds of objects are displayed on a game screen on the basis of the multiple object information stored in the multiple object information memory. A damage cause indicating a cause of the damage that the displayed multiple objects receives is specified. At least the damage, which the second kind of object receives, is specified on the basis of the specified damage cause and a state of the first kind of object in the video game.

Abstract: It is an object that a normally selectable command or a command for specifying an appropriate action in accordance with the state of a player character can be easily selected through a simple operation by a player. In a command control process, at least one normal action specifying command for specifying a normal action that the player character can normally carry out is selectably displayed; at least one local action specifying command for specifying a local action that the player character can locally carry out in accordance with a state of the player character and corresponds to the state of the player character is selectably displayed when the player character becomes the corresponding state; and an action of the player character is controlled in response to the command selected, through operation by the player, from the displayed at least one normal action specifying command and the displayed at least one local action specifying command.

Abstract: When a player character is moved toward a two-dimensional non-player character (NPC) in response to operation of an input section 21 by a player, a main process is repeatedly carried out by a video game apparatus 100. Thus, the two-dimensional NPC approaches the player character and is moved toward a visual boundary surface, and finally leaves the field of view of the virtual camera without moving within the 2D inhibit space. Because the two-dimensional NPC is maintained in a space opposite from the player character with respect to a boundary surface between 2D and 3D in this way, and the two-dimensional NPC is prevented from moving within the side of the player character P from the boundary surface between 2D and 3D, it is possible to reduce processing load of hardware without losing realism (realistic sensation) when an image including multiple objects is drawn in a virtual three-dimensional space.

Abstract: It is an object that a normally selectable command or a command for specifying an appropriate action in accordance with the state of a player character can be easily selected through a simple operation by a player. In a command control process, at least one normal action specifying command for specifying a normal action that the player character can normally carry out is selectably displayed; at least one local action specifying command for specifying a local action that the player character can locally carry out in accordance with a state of the player character and corresponds to the state of the player character is selectably displayed when the player character becomes the corresponding state; and an action of the player character is controlled in response to the command selected, through operation by the player, from the displayed at least one normal action specifying command and the displayed at least one local action specifying command.

Abstract: When a player character is moved toward a two-dimensional non-player character (NPC) in response to operation of an input section 21 by a player, a main process is repeatedly carried out by a video game apparatus 100. Thus, the two-dimensional NPC approaches the player character and is moved toward a visual boundary surface, and finally leaves the field of view of the virtual camera without moving within the 2D inhibit space. Because the two-dimensional NPC is maintained in a space opposite from the player character with respect to a boundary surface between 2D and 3D in this way, and the two-dimensional NPC is prevented from moving within the side of the player character P from the boundary surface between 2D and 3D, it is possible to reduce processing load of hardware without losing realism (realistic sensation) when an image including multiple objects is drawn in a virtual three-dimensional space.