Patent ID: 8690674

Claim:
A non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a game program which causes a computer, in a game apparatus comprising a pointing device for indicating a position on a display screen on which a game image is displayed, to execute: a coordinate detection step which detects, at regular time intervals and based on output signals from the pointing device, a series of coordinate values each of which values is inputted through the pointing device and indicates a position on the display screen; a first control step which controls a first object displayed on the display screen based on the output signals from the pointing device; a selection determination step which determines, based on the series of coordinate values detected at the coordinate detection step and while the first object is being controlled at the first control step, whether or not a second object displayed on the display screen has been selected; and an action control step which controls the second object to move toward a position of the first object, when the selection determination step determines that the second object has been selected.