Decoupled Multi-Game Lobby Architecture for Regulatory-Safe Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic gaming machines (EGMs) have inflexible multi-game lobbies that require redesign and reapproval for changes, such as adding games or customizing themes, leading to inefficiencies and regulatory hurdles.
Innovation Solution
A gaming architecture that decouples the multi-game lobby module from the platform layer, enabling dynamic configuration and customization through APIs for jurisdictional support, game-driven, and market-driven lobbies, allowing changes without complete redesign or reapproval.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the multi-game lobby module is tightly integrated with the platform layer, then system stability and regulatory compliance are maintained, but flexibility and adaptability for changes are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into distinct modules: the platform layer containing regulatory logic and the lobby module containing game selection functionality. This segmentation allows the lobby module to be modified independently while the platform layer maintains regulatory compliance stability.
Solution Approach 2:
An intermediary interface layer is introduced between the platform layer and the lobby module. This interface allows controlled communication and data exchange while maintaining isolation, enabling lobby changes without affecting regulatory compliance in the platform layer.
2Ease of operation
If the multi-game lobby module is decoupled from the platform layer, then flexibility and ease of customization are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The platform layer is designed with universal, standardized interfaces that can work with multiple different lobby modules. This multi-functionality allows the same platform layer to support various customized lobbies without requiring complex reconfiguration, simplifying the overall system despite decoupling.
3Productivity
If complete redesign is required for lobby changes, then system integrity is maintained, but development time and regulatory approval processes are extended
Solution Approach 1:
The lobby module is designed as a dynamic, configurable component that can be updated without complete redesign. The decoupled architecture enables hot-swapping of lobby configurations, allowing rapid updates to game selections and themes while maintaining system integrity through the stable platform layer.
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AI summary
The present application generally describes a gaming architecture that generates a dynamic multi-game lobby for a random gaming environment. Specifically, the gaming architecture decouples the multi-game lobby module from the gaming device's platform layer to dynamically provide jurisdictional support, dynamically configure multi-game packs (e.g., from a relatively large game library), and allow for game-driven, studio-driven, and/or market-driven custom multi-game lobbies. Given the typically hardcoded nature of today's multi-game lobbies, the lobbies fail to allow for lobby customization, e.g., if design studios want to redesign the multi-game set to have a distinct theme, brand, and/or interface design. Therefore, a new gaming architecture is described herein to allow for dynamic changes to multi-game sets and lobbies-without needing to completely redesign, seek new regulatory approval of, and deploy such multi-game sets on electronic gaming machines (EGM) or other gaming hardware.