Patent ID: 8172657

Claim:
A game machine, which displays a situation of a game space in which an operational target player character, one or more teammate player characters, and a moving object character representing a moving object are located, and which provides a sports game played using the moving object between an operational target team, to which the operational target player character and the one or more teammate player characters belong, and an opponent team, comprising: field-of-view area setting means for setting, based on a location and orientation of the operational target player character, a field-of-view area of the operational target player character; field-of-view area judging means for judging whether or not one or more teammate player characters are located within the field-of-view area of the operational target player character; pass-instructing-operation receiving means for receiving a pass-execution instructing operation that gives an instruction to execute a pass and a pass-direction instructing operation that specifies a pass direction in the game space; pass-partner-search-area setting means for setting a pass-partner search area, based on the location of the operational target player character and a direction specified by the pass-direction instructing operation; pass-partner selecting means for selecting any one of the teammate player characters located within the pass-partner search area as a pass partner; first pass executing means for moving the moving object character in a direction determined based on a location of the teammate player character selected by the pass-partner selecting means; second pass executing means for moving the moving object character in a direction specified by the pass-direction instructing operation; and pass-execution control means for, in the case where the pass-execution instructing operation is received, causing any one of the first pass executing means and the second pass executing means to perform movement control of the moving object character, the pass-execution control means selecting the anyone of the first pass executing means and the second pass executing means based on a judgment result from the field-of-view area judging means.