Patent ID: 7884822

Claim:
A game apparatus, comprising: object arranging programmed logic circuitry for arranging a first object and a second object in a first virtual game world, and performing a movement control on at least one of the first object and the second object; a first game image display controller for generating a game image panoramically or planarly representing the first virtual game world on the basis of an arrangement state by the object arranging programmed logic circuitry, and displaying it on a first display portion; determining programmed logic circuitry for determining whether or not a positional relationship between the first object and the second object satisfies a predetermined condition in the first virtual game world; and a second game image display controller for, when the determination result by said determining programmed logic circuitry is affirmative, setting a virtual camera in a three-dimensional second virtual game world on the basis of at least one of a first object position and a second object position in the first virtual game world, arranging at least one of the first object and the second object in the second virtual game world, generating a game image by shooting the second virtual game world with the virtual camera in such a manner as to include at least one of said first object and said second object which are arranged, and displaying it on a second display portion, wherein said determining programmed logic circuitry determines whether or not a positional relationship between said first object and said second object in said first virtual game world is below a predetermined distance.