Patent ID: 7695367

Claim:
A storage medium having stored thereon a game program to be executed by a computer of a game apparatus which displays on a display screen a game image representing at least a portion of a virtual space in which a player object and at least another object appear, and which is operated using a pointing device that outputs input coordinates of a coordinate system on the display screen according to an operation performed by a player, wherein the game program causes the computer to execute: first determination range setting that sets, in the virtual space, a first determination range based on virtually positioned coordinates and a facing direction of the player object, wherein the first determination range is set in the virtual space as a range having a predetermined angle between a facing direction of the player object and a direction offset to a left side of the facing direction and the predetermined angle between the facing direction of the player object and a direction offset to a right side of the facing direction, based on the virtually positioned coordinates of the player object; detecting input coordinates outputted by the pointing device in response to selection of the input coordinates on the display screen using the pointing device; first action process that executes, when the input coordinates indicate that said another object is in the first determination range, a predetermined action between said another object and the player object; and player object position update that updates, when the input coordinates indicate a position outside the first determination range, the virtually positioned coordinates of the player object stored in a memory such that the player object is moved toward the indicated position outside the first determination range.