Patent ID: 8194078

Claim:
A non-transitory recording medium comprising a recorded program and data to be used in a program execution system including a program execution device that executes various programs, at least one operation device into which are inputted operation requests by a user as operation instructions to said program execution device, wherein said recorded program has a direction maintenance step by which if, along with a motion of any character on a display device, based on an operation instruction about a character motion direction, a switching is made from a first fixed viewing perspective to a second fixed viewing perspective on said display device and so long as said operation instruction is maintained, the direction of motion of said character in said second fixed viewing perspective is maintained in coordination with the direction of motion of the character on a map in said first fixed viewing perspective at least as determined immediately before the switching is made, and only thereafter, when the operation instruction is changed to another operation instruction, after the switching of the viewing perspective, a direction of motion of the character is calculated based on the second fixed viewing perspective, and its position then determined based on a position of the character and a motion direction from the operation instruction.