Patent ID: 7690988

Claim:
An information processing method performed by a computer, comprising the steps of: constructing a virtual space including a viewpoint and a character object controlled by an operation terminal; determining the presence of an occurrence of an event satisfying a specific condition; changing a passing rate of time of the character object in the virtual space without changing an input acceptance frequency from the operation terminal, by changing a displacement of the character object among frames in a world coordinate system of the virtual space from the state in which the event does not occur; when the event occurs, wherein the changing of the passing rate of time of the character object is accomplished by extracting coefficient data for the character object and multiplying variables for determining a position by the extracted coefficient data for every unit time of the character object in the virtual space; and changing an object to be controlled by the operation terminal from the character object as a whole to a specific part of the character object, when the event occurs.