Patent ID: 7538775

Claim:
A storage medium storing a game program for displaying on a screen of a display device a virtual image obtained when at least one object present in a virtual space is observed from a predetermined point of view in the virtual space, the game program causing a computer of a game apparatus to execute: a relative position changing step of changing a relative position of each object with respect to the point of view by changing at least one of information indicating a position of the point of view and information indicating a position of the object, the pieces of information being stored in a storage means of the game apparatus; a distance determining step of determining whether or not a distance from the point of view to each object in the virtual space is smaller than or equal to a predetermined distance, with reference to the information indicating the point of view and the information indicating the position of the object; a transparency changing step of changing, every a unit time, information indicating a transparency of an object whose distance is determined in the distance determining step to be smaller than or equal to the predetermined distance, so that the transparency of the object is gradually increased, the information indicating the transparency of the object being stored in the storage means of the game apparatus; and a drawing step of drawing a virtual image including the object with reference to the information indicating the transparency.