Dynamic Multiplier Regions in Gaming Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces challenges in creating games that balance yield versus randomness and volatility to maintain player engagement, while also improving processing speed and efficiency to support advanced graphics and features, and in providing innovative gameplay with improved animations.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with game-logic circuitry that presents a multiplier region with randomly selected value-bearing symbols, allowing for dynamic multipliers to be applied to award values, enhancing player engagement and processing efficiency through a straightforward value-aggregation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If complex advanced graphics and special effects are added to make games more entertaining, then player engagement is improved, but processing speed and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The game display is segmented into a multiplier region with a subset of symbol positions, allowing independent processing and rendering of different game elements. This segmentation enables the system to handle complex graphics in manageable portions, maintaining processing efficiency while delivering high-quality visual experiences.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic modifier regions and selectable multipliers that change during gameplay. The game-logic circuitry dynamically updates award indicia based on randomly selected symbols and applied multipliers, creating engaging visual transformations that enhance player engagement without requiring constant re-rendering of entire game displays, thus preserving processing speed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple bonus features with different game formats are added to increase entertainment value, then player engagement is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The game-logic circuitry is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple bonus features and game formats through a unified architecture. The same circuitry manages multiplier regions, value-bearing symbols, award calculations, and various game outcomes, eliminating the need for separate dedicated systems for each feature type and thereby controlling overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamic modifier regions that can be selectively applied to different symbol positions based on game outcomes. This dynamic approach allows a single flexible system to accommodate multiple game formats and bonus features by reconfiguring which regions are active and how multipliers are applied, rather than requiring fixed dedicated hardware for each feature.
3Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic multipliers and value-bearing symbols are implemented to enhance player engagement, then game excitement is improved, but processing overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes the multiplier region structure and associates multipliers with specific symbol positions before game outcomes are determined. This preliminary configuration allows the game-logic circuitry to efficiently process outcomes by simply applying pre-defined multipliers to matching symbols, rather than calculating complex award structures in real-time, thereby reducing processing overhead while maintaining dynamic engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies multipliers locally to specific symbol positions within the multiplier region rather than globally to entire game displays. This localized approach concentrates processing efforts only on relevant symbol positions that contain value-bearing symbols, significantly reducing the computational burden compared to processing entire display regions, thus improving processing efficiency while preserving game feature dynamics.
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AI summary
A gaming machine comprises game-logic circuitry and a display device that presents a plurality of symbol positions. The game-logic circuitry causes the display device to: in response to a trigger event, present a multiplier region including a subset of the symbol positions, present one or more multiplier selectors that are associated with at least one symbol position of the subset and include a respective set of multipliers, present one or more game outcomes by populating the plurality of symbol positions with randomly selected symbols, select a multiplier for each multiplier selector associated with symbol positions being occupied by value-bearing symbols through the game outcomes, and update the award indicia for each of the value-bearing symbols associated with the multiplier selectors to indicate a respective updated award value at least partially as a function of an initial award value of the value-bearing symbol and the corresponding selected multiplier.