Randomly Modulated Boosted Feature Areas for Slot Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing slot machines lack variability in boosted feature areas, which can lead to boredom for players and bystanders due to fixed sizes and shapes of these areas, failing to provide sufficient entertainment and excitement.
Innovation Solution
A method for slot machines to dynamically generate boosted feature areas of different sizes, shapes, and locations based on chance, with corresponding display, sound, and haptic effects to alert players and bystanders of changes, enhancing the gaming experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a fixed size and shape boosted features zone is used, then the game rules are simple and easy to understand, but player engagement decreases due to monotony and lack of variability
Solution Approach 1:
The boosted features zone transitions from a static, fixed configuration to a dynamic one where its size, shape, and location change randomly for each gaming action. This dynamic variation maintains rule simplicity while introducing excitement and unpredictability that prevents player boredom.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent varies multiple parameters of the boosted features zone including its size (area), shape (different geometric configurations), and location (position on the reel array). These parameter changes occur randomly for each spin, providing variability that enhances player engagement without complicating the core game mechanics.
2Quantity of substance
If the boosted features zone size is increased to provide more boosting opportunities, then player winnings potential increases, but the frequency of special-feature symbol landings decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of permanently increasing the boosted features zone size, the patent randomly varies the zone's size parameter for each gaming action. This allows the system to occasionally provide large boosting opportunities while maintaining smaller zones more frequently, balancing the trade-off between potential winnings and landing frequency.
Solution Approach 2:
The boosted features zone undergoes periodic random changes in size, shape, and location with each gaming action. This periodic variation ensures that players experience different zone configurations over time, including both large high-reward zones and smaller more frequent zones, rather than a permanently enlarged zone that would reduce landing frequency.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the same basic game template is displayed repeatedly, then the game structure remains consistent and easy to learn, but gamers become bored after prolonged play
Solution Approach 1:
While maintaining the stable basic game template of reels and symbol rows, the patent introduces dynamic variation through the randomly changing boosted features zone. This allows the core game structure to remain consistent and easy to learn, while the variable zone provides ongoing entertainment variety that prevents boredom during prolonged play.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality variation by keeping the overall game template uniform but introducing a locally variable element—the boosted features zone—that changes in size, shape, and location. This localized variation provides entertainment diversity without requiring changes to the entire game structure, maintaining both consistency and variety.
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AI summary
A gaming machine produces boosted feature areas of different sizes and/or shapes and/or locations based on chance and alerts players and bystanders of such changes when they happen.