Patent ID: 7281981

Claim:
An image generation method of generating an image comprising: defining a relationship of first and second action pairs, the first and second action pairs each defining an advantage between two of first, second and third actions; controlling an action of a first character and a second character through a control input by one or more players; setting the first character to be more advantageous than the second character based on the relationship when the first character performs the first action and the second character performs the second action, the first action being a vertical-attribute attack; setting the first character to be more advantageous than the second character based on the relationship when the first character performs the second action and the second character performs the third action, the second action being a horizontal-attribute attack; setting the first character to be more advantageous than the second character based on the relationship when the first character performs the third action and the second character performs the first action, the third action being a movement action in which the first character moves in an arbitrary direction within an object space and the first action being performed by the second character in a direction substantially along a vertical plane; and generating an image viewed through a virtual camera within the object space in which a plurality of objects including the first and second characters are disposed with their respective advantages, wherein a hit-judgment in which a hit has been made is canceled when the first character performs the movement action and the second character performs the vertical-attribute attack, even when the vertical-attribute attack by the second character is judged to have hit the first character.