Patent ID: 7815509
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A control method for a game apparatus, the apparatus comprising game control means for controlling development of a game based on a predetermined game program, image generating means for generating game images based on development of the game controlled by the game control means, a plurality of display means for displaying the game images generated by the image generating means, a seat for a game player to sit on, and a plurality of audio output means, the method comprising: calculating, using a processor, in a position changing step, an amount of change for at least one of orientation and relative positional relationship of the seats and the output means with respect to the plurality of display means in accompaniment with development of the game by the game control means, and changing at least one of the orientation and relative positional relationship of the seat and the audio output means with respect to the plurality of display means based on calculated amount of change; changing, in a stereophonic sound control step, conditions of audio output outputted from the plurality of audio output means and controlling assigned position of a sound field of stereophonic sound based on information relating to the amount of change; generating, by the image generating means, an image of a predetermined object in three-dimensional virtual game space as viewed from a predetermined virtual frame of reference, displaying, by the plurality of display means, images as viewed from the virtual frame of reference; changing the relative positions of the seat and the plurality of audio output means with respect to the plurality of display means by causing the seat and the plurality of audio output means to rotate taking a predetermined center of rotation arranged within an enclosure as center, and; changing conditions of audio output outputted from the plurality of audio output means and controls assigned position of a sound field of stereophonic sound based on virtual distance information for between the position of the object and the seat in three-dimensional virtual space and rotation angle information for the seat and the plurality of audio output means.