Bonus Pick Game Metamorphics for Flexible Award Presentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic gaming systems lack flexibility and variability in presenting awards and outcomes, limiting player engagement and excitement.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a bonus pick feature game with metamorphics that can be selectively activated, individually or in combination, based on a game outcome, to enhance outcomes and provide multiple pick feature enhancements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional electronic gaming systems present fixed award structures, then system simplicity is maintained, but player engagement and excitement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic metamorphics that can transform between different states (e.g., from dormant to active, from one symbol to another) based on game outcomes. This allows the system to adapt its presentation format dynamically without requiring multiple fixed systems, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity by making a single system adaptable through state changes rather than adding multiple static components.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters of existing game elements (metamorphics) to create varied award presentations. By modifying attributes such as activation state, visual appearance, and functional properties of metamorphics based on game outcomes, the system achieves flexibility in award presentation without fundamentally altering its structure, thus maintaining simplicity while enhancing adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple metamorphics are activated individually, then award variety is increased, but game outcome determination becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the bonus game into separate pick features, each associated with specific metamorphics. This segmentation allows the system to handle multiple activated metamorphics in a structured manner - each pick feature can be independently evaluated and presented, reducing the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous activations while maintaining outcome variety.
Solution Approach 2:
The system determines which metamorphics to activate based on the base game outcome before the bonus game begins. This preliminary determination of active metamorphics simplifies subsequent bonus game logic, as the system only needs to manage the pre-determined set of active features rather than making complex real-time decisions about multiple potential activations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If pick feature enhancements are applied, then player excitement is enhanced, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies pick feature enhancements locally to specific pick features rather than globally to the entire bonus game. Each enhanced pick feature operates independently with its own modification rules, allowing the system to process only the necessary enhancements for each feature rather than recalculating entire game outcomes, thus maintaining processing efficiency while providing targeted enhancements.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic gaming system includes a display device and a game controller in communication with the display device. The game controller includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the game controller to: determine that a bonus game including display of pick icons is triggered based on a game outcome; activate a metamorphic for the bonus game based on the game outcome, the activated metamorphic being associated with a pick feature enhancement for the bonus game; cause display of a visual indication of the activated metamorphic; initiate a play of the bonus game and apply the pick feature enhancement associated with the activated metamorphic thereto; receive a selection of one of the pick icons during the play of the bonus game; and cause display of an award associated with the selected pick icon and determined based on the applied pick feature enhancement.