Character display, character displaying method, information recording medium, and program

Abstract

A character display for attracting user interest by increasing the variety of on-screen display while reducing data processing by making the time variation of posture common among a plurality of characters. The character display () comprises: an arrangement selector () that, on the basis of instructional input from the user, selects arrangement information stored in an arrangement storage unit () that determines the reference positions/orientations of each character; a posture acquirer () that acquires, from a posture storage unit (), a coordinate group representing the posture of the characters in association with the elapsed time from a predetermined time to the present; a mover/rotator () that moves/rotates the coordinate group to match the reference position/orientation of each character; and a generating/displaying unit () that generates/displays an image wherein the plurality of characters are arranged in the virtual space and taking postures on the basis of the moved/rotated coordinate group.