Bonus Reel Outcome Selection for RTP-Compliant Enhancements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic gaming systems lack flexibility and variability in presenting Class II and Class III game outcomes, limiting player excitement and engagement, and face technical challenges in maintaining RTP and compliance with jurisdictional requirements when increasing randomness and award opportunities.
Innovation Solution
Implementing enhanced characteristics in bonus reel games, such as expanding reel matrices, spinning different reel sets, and applying multipliers, while using metamorphics to visually indicate triggered features, and utilizing databases to efficiently select outcomes with enhanced characteristics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional electronic gaming systems present standard bonus games, then the system operation is simple and compliant with basic regulations, but player excitement and engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The bonus game is segmented into multiple distinct features (expanding reel matrices, different reel sets, multipliers, metamorphics) that can be independently triggered and combined. Each feature operates as a separate module that divides the overall game complexity into manageable, independently controllable components.
Solution Approach 2:
The game controller is designed with multi-functionality to handle both standard bonus games and enhanced bonus games with various features. The system can universally present different types of outcomes (winning, losing, enhanced) using the same base infrastructure, allowing flexibility in game presentation without requiring separate systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If enhanced characteristics are added to bonus reel games, then player engagement and excitement increase, but maintaining RTP compliance becomes more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of the bonus outcome before the enhanced features are presented. The game controller identifies whether an enhanced characteristic should be applied and determines the predetermined outcome in advance, ensuring that the final result maintains RTP compliance while allowing flexible presentation of enhanced features to the player.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the game controller monitors and adjusts the presentation of enhanced features based on predetermined parameters that ensure RTP compliance. The outcome determination feeds back into the feature selection process, allowing the system to maintain reliability while providing adaptability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple enhanced features are implemented in bonus games, then award opportunities and player excitement increase, but processing efficiency and compliance verification become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the reel matrix configuration and feature activation based on the predetermined outcome and selected enhanced characteristics. The reel sets and matrix dimensions change dynamically during bonus game presentation to match the determined outcome, allowing efficient processing of multiple enhanced features without manual reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses virtual representations and data structures to model the physical reel sets and outcomes. Multiple reel sets are represented as digital copies that can be rapidly switched and manipulated without physical changes, improving processing efficiency when presenting multiple enhanced features with different reel configurations.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic gaming device 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, which when executed by the processor, cause the game controller to: cause display of a base game including a plurality of reels; control the plurality of reels to display a combination of symbols corresponding to a primary game outcome; determine that the primary game outcome satisfies a bonus game condition and an enhancement condition to trigger a bonus game having at least one enhanced characteristic; identify outcomes for one or more free spins of the bonus game having the at least one enhanced characteristic; randomly select an outcome for each free spin from the identified outcomes; and initiate the bonus reel game that includes display of the randomly selected outcome for each of the one or more free spins.