Cooperative Gaming System with Shared Risk Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
In gaming systems, players typically compete individually for progressive jackpots, leading to reduced incentives for playing when the jackpot is smaller, resulting in decreased venue turnover and a lack of cooperative gaming experiences that encourage shared success and risk among players.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with a control unit linked to multiple machines, allowing players to opt into a cooperative gaming environment, where they can establish rules, strategies, and share risks, ensuring no player benefits at the expense of others, and enabling seamless entry and exit of players while managing milestones and credits fairly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If players compete individually for progressive jackpots, then each player has a clear objective and incentive to play, but players experience antagonism and reduced incentive when the jackpot is smaller, leading to decreased venue turnover
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual gaming sessions into a cooperative group experience. Multiple players contribute to a shared progressive jackpot pool and play collectively towards a common goal. The system combines individual machine play with group coordination, allowing players to share both the risk and the reward, thereby eliminating antagonism and maintaining consistent playing incentive regardless of jackpot size.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic elements where players can adjust their contribution levels to the group pool, choose different betting strategies, and modify their participation in real-time. The cooperative environment adapts to player preferences through configurable parameters such as contribution amounts, risk tolerance levels, and win distribution methods, making the gaming experience flexible and continuously engaging.
2Ease of operation
If players play individually on stand-alone or linked progressive jackpot machines, then the gaming system is simple to operate, but the gaming experience is isolated and lacks cooperative elements that could enhance player engagement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal gaming platform that can operate in multiple modes: traditional individual play, cooperative group play with shared jackpots, and hybrid modes where players can switch between individual and cooperative experiences. The system maintains compatibility with existing gaming machine infrastructure while adding cooperative capabilities, allowing venues to offer diverse gaming experiences through a single integrated platform.
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AI summary
A gaming system includes a control unit. A plurality of gaming machines are linked to the control unit. An identifier is associated with one of each player and each gaming machine, the identifier providing an indication to the control unit whether or not the player wishes to participate in a cooperative gaming environment. The control unit monitors operation of the gaming machines in the cooperative gaming environment and, each time any one of a number of predetermined elements of the cooperative gaming environment changes, generating a milestone and using the milestone so that no one player in the cooperative gaming environment benefits at the expense of the other players participating in the cooperative gaming environment.