Patent ID: 7658675

Claim:
A game apparatus utilizing a touch panel, comprising: a display to display a game space including a character to be operated by a player; a touch panel operable by said player and capable of simultaneous detection of at least two pointing positions; a coordinates detector to detect coordinate values of the two pointing positions detected according to an operation of said touch panel by said player; a positional relationship calculator to calculate at least one of a distance between said two pointing positions detected by said coordinates detector and an angle of a line connecting said two pointing positions, movement parameter setting programmed logic circuitry to set a movement parameter of said character on the basis of at least one of the distance and angle calculated by said positional relationship calculator and to change a travel speed as said movement parameter on the basis of the change amount of said distance; and a character controller to control a movement of said character on the basis of the movement parameter set by said movement parameter setting programmed logic circuitry.