Patent ID: 8303408

Claim:
A game device, which displays on a game screen a state of a display subject region within a game space in which a game character is located, the game device comprising: a screen coordinate value acquisition unit that acquires a screen coordinate value according to a user's operation; a judgment unit that determines whether or not the screen coordinate value is a screen coordinate value within the game screen; a first action target position acquisition unit that, if it is determined that the screen coordinate value is a screen coordinate value within the game screen, acquires a position within the display subject region corresponding to the screen coordinate value as an action target position of a predetermined action for the game character; a second action target position acquisition unit that, if it is determined that the screen coordinate value is not a screen coordinate value within the game screen, acquires a position outside the display subject region as an action target position of the predetermined action for the game character based on the screen coordinate value; and a game character action control unit that performs action control on the game character based on the action target position, wherein the second action target position acquisition unit: determines whether or not a screen coordinate value condition related to the screen coordinate value, stored in associated with each of a plurality of action target position candidates set outside the display subject region, is satisfied by the screen coordinate value; and acquires an action target position candidate associated with the screen coordinate value condition satisfied by the screen coordinate value, as the action target position of the predetermined action for the game character, wherein the display subject region corresponds to a portion of the game space that is displayed on the game screen, and the position outside the display subject region is not displayed on the game screen.