Patent ID: 7771279
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A data storage medium having stored therein a game program causing a computer of a game machine, including a display screen for displaying a game image and a touch panel covering the display screen, to perform a method comprising: a display control step of displaying, on the display screen, a game image, including at least one targeting image selectable by a player and indicative of a target to be specified by a player and including a game character image that is different from the at least one targeting image; a movement control step of moving the at least one targeting image substantially independent of the game character image so that the at least one targeting image at least temporarily passes over the game character image; an input coordinate detecting step of detecting, when the player provides an input onto the touch panel, input coordinates indicative of a position of the input on the display screen; a specified coordinate determining step of determining, when display coordinates of any one of the plurality of targeting images, at the time of the input provided from the player onto the touch panel, and the input coordinates are within a predetermined range, that the targeting image has been specified by the player, and determining, based on at least one of a position represented by the display coordinates and a position represented by the input coordinates, specified coordinates indicative of a position specified by the player; and a parameter updating step of varying a characteristic parameter, indicative of a characteristic of a game character represented by the game character image, based on a positional relation between the specified coordinates and the game character image.