Game-Logic Circuitry Modifiable Elements Yield Randomness
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces challenges in creating gaming apparatus and games that balance yield versus randomness and volatility to encourage prolonged and frequent player participation, while also improving processing speed and efficiency to support advanced graphics and animations.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with game-logic circuitry and a display device that randomly populates modifier positions with modifier symbols, causing animations and increasing award values of value-bearing symbols, and providing an aggregated award upon termination conditions, thereby enhancing player engagement and processing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming apparatus uses advanced graphics and special effects with multiple bonus features and random outcome determinations, then player engagement and entertainment value are improved, but processing speed and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines all random outcomes and game results before the player initiates play. The processor generates complete game sequences including all reel spins, bonus features, and award determinations in advance, storing them in memory for rapid playback during actual gameplay. This eliminates complex real-time calculations and enables high-speed presentation of sophisticated game features.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical reel systems with electronic display and software-based game logic. Instead of physical reels that require mechanical rotation and stopping mechanisms, the system uses digital displays controlled by pre-computed outcome data, significantly reducing mechanical complexity and improving processing efficiency while maintaining visual entertainment value.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming apparatus determines game outcomes based on random elements, then player perception of luck and excitement is improved, but long-term yield control becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where game outcomes and player responses are analyzed to dynamically adjust future game sequences. The pre-determined outcome sequences are generated based on feedback from previous gameplay, ensuring that the overall yield remains within target parameters while maintaining appropriate randomness and volatility to sustain player engagement over time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent dynamically changes key game parameters such as award multipliers, bonus feature frequencies, and random outcome distributions within pre-computed sequences. By varying these parameters across different game sequences while maintaining overall yield control, the system achieves both reliable long-term performance and exciting short-term variability that enhances player perception of luck.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the game presents complex animations and multiple value-bearing symbols, then player engagement is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
All animation sequences, symbol transformations, and visual effect parameters are pre-rendered and stored as complete playback sequences. During gameplay, the system simply plays back these pre-prepared visual sequences without performing complex real-time rendering or calculations, dramatically reducing processing complexity while maintaining high visual engagement.
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AI summary
A gaming machine comprises game-logic circuitry and a display device that presents a plurality of symbol positions and modifier positions. The game-logic circuitry causes the display device to present (i) a modifier outcome by populating one or more modifier positions with modifier symbols, and (ii) an animation of one or more symbol positions being populated with value-bearing symbols having award indicia in response to the modifier outcome including a first modifier symbol at a first modifier position. The game-logic circuitry increases, for a preexisting value-bearing symbol prior to the modifier outcome, the award value of the preexisting value-bearing symbol, wherein the display device presents an updated award indicia based on the increased award value, removes, in response to a termination condition, any locked value-bearing symbols from the symbol positions, and provides an aggregated award as a function of the award values of the locked value-bearing symbols occupying the symbol positions.


