Patent ID: 8282484

Claim:
A video game processing apparatus that controls a progress of a video game by displaying a player character on a display screen of an image display apparatus and controlling an action of the player character displayed on the display screen in accordance with an operation by a player, the video game processing apparatus comprising: a created-object data table that stores created-object icons to be displayed on the display screen and created-object information relating to one of scenario data, character data, map data and item data corresponding to created-objects, the created-object icons corresponding to the created-objects and stored in association with created-object graphic data; a graphic recognizer that recognizes a graphic drawn by the player; a selector that selects, from the created-object graphic data stored in the created-object data table, at least one selected created-object of the created-objects similar to the graphic recognized by the graphic recognizer; an icon creator that displays at least one displayed created-object icon of the created-object icons corresponding to the at least one selected created-object on the display screen; and a central processor that receives a selection of a desired created-object icon of the at least one displayed created-object icons from the player in accordance with the operation by the player, and that controls the progress of the video game in accordance with the one of the scenario data, character data, map data and item data corresponding to a desired created-object which corresponds to the desired created-object icon wherein the central processor receives the selection of the desired created-object icon in response to the player moving the player character to overlap with the desired created-object icon on the display screen.