Patent ID: 7312804
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A program product stored in a computer-readable information storage medium and executed by a computer for generating an image, the program product causing a computer to function as: an event occurrence determination section which determines whether or not an effect event has occurred, an effect object being generated for the effect event; a position determination section which determines whether or not a virtual camera or a player's character operated by a player exists within a given effect range, when the event occurrence determination section determines that the effect event has occurred, the given effect range being set based on an occurrence position of the effect event; an effect position processing section, when the event occurrence determination section determines that the virtual camera or the player's character exists within the effect range and the effect object is outside an angle of view of the virtual camera, the effect position processing section positioning within the angle of view of the virtual camera at least the effect object or a dummy effect object provided in advance; and an image generation section which generates an image viewed from the virtual camera in an object space.