Patent ID: 7666097
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method for generating an image in a virtual space seen from a predetermined viewpoint in a game to be output on a display, comprising: judging whether to start a motion of a first object placed in the virtual space in the game; if it is judged to start the motion of the first object, automatically controlling the motion of the first object in a predetermined moving direction; if it is judged to start the motion of the first object, displaying a plurality of effect objects at predetermined positional intervals at substantially the same time, the plurality of effect objects provided three-dimensionally at the side that the first object is going to move from a location of the first object immediately before the first object starts moving, each of the plurality of effect objects showing a respective future sequential motion of the first object; making the plurality of effect objects sequentially disappear in proximate order from the location of the first object at a time in which it is judged to start the motion of the first object after the first object starts moving as the first object moves into the position corresponding the respective effect object; and displaying the first object and effect objects on the display, wherein locating the plurality of effect objects includes: