Electronic Wagering Game Flow Personalization Under RTP Constraints
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic gaming machines lack the ability to automatically adjust game play to individual player preferences while maintaining regulatory requirements, such as return to player (RTP), without requiring players to switch games.
Innovation Solution
An electronic gaming machine system that uses a processor to determine player preferences through game play analysis, adjusting game flow rules and math engine parameters to customize the game experience while maintaining RTP within a predetermined window.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If game flow rules are adjusted to match player preferences, then player engagement and machine utilization increase, but maintaining RTP within regulatory window becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts game flow rules based on real-time analysis of player preferences, behavior patterns, and session characteristics. The processor continuously monitors player interactions and modifies game parameters such as bonus round frequency, reel spin outcomes, and feature activation thresholds to optimize engagement while maintaining RTP within the regulatory window through closed-loop control
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes multiple game parameters simultaneously including game flow rules, math engine probabilities, and feature weights to achieve desired player experience outcomes. By adjusting these parameters within calculated ranges, the system customizes game behavior for different player segments while ensuring aggregate RTP remains compliant with regulatory requirements
2Extent of automation
If automated player preference analysis is implemented, then game customization capability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The processor circuit performs multiple functions including game execution, player preference analysis, game flow rule adjustment, and RTP monitoring within a single integrated system. The machine-readable instructions enable the same hardware to execute both standard gaming operations and sophisticated preference detection algorithms, eliminating the need for separate dedicated systems and reducing overall complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically analyzes player preferences and adjusts game parameters without requiring external intervention or complex external systems. The processor self-monitors player behavior through game play analysis and autonomously modifies game flow rules based on detected preferences, reducing dependency on external complexity while maintaining high automation capability
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AI summary
A wagering game operates according to a set of game rules including game flow rules that define a sequence of game events that are presented to a player in a course of operation of the wagering game, a math engine that governs probabilities of pseudorandom events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game, and a pay table that defines winning events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game and corresponding payouts that are made to the player upon occurrence of the wining events. The method determines a player game play preference of the player associated with playing the wagering game on the EGM, and adjusts the game flow rules in response to the determined player game play preference.