Gaming Machine Center Controller Common Game Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming machines lack a mechanism to enhance entertainment characteristics by seamlessly integrating independent and common games, leading to confusion and decreased player motivation.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine architecture that includes multiple gaming terminals connected to a center controller, allowing for independent game execution while enabling a common game mode with synchronized gameplay, effect displays, and payout systems, which determines participation and displays specific images to maintain player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a common game is implemented across multiple gaming terminals, then entertainment characteristics are improved, but player confusion and decreased motivation occur due to lack of clear participation mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The center controller acts as an intermediary between individual terminal controllers and the common game system. It receives special game start signals from terminal controllers, determines participation status, and coordinates common game execution across multiple terminals. This intermediary role clarifies the relationship between independent and common games, preventing player confusion while maintaining entertainment value.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming system is segmented into independent terminal games and a coordinated common game layer. Each terminal controller independently manages its own game execution, while the center controller separately manages common game participation. This segmentation allows clear distinction between independent payouts and common game requirements, improving player understanding without reducing entertainment characteristics.
2Productivity
If payout information is displayed independently at each terminal, then player motivation is maintained, but confusion arises when common game participation is required
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal controller provides feedback to the center controller through special game start signals, and the center controller provides feedback back by determining participation status and coordinating common game execution. This bidirectional feedback mechanism ensures that payout information displayed at terminals accurately reflects both independent wins and common game requirements, maintaining player motivation while preventing information loss about participation conditions.
3Productivity
If the common game starts immediately when conditions are met, then game flow is optimized, but effect display interruptions occur that confuse players
Solution Approach 1:
The center controller performs preliminary determination of participation status before initiating the common game. It waits for terminal controllers to complete their independent game execution and special game start signal processing. This preliminary action ensures that all terminals are ready and understand the common game requirements before effect displays begin, preventing interruptions and confusion while maintaining efficient game flow.
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AI summary
A plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal display on which a plurality of symbols are lined up, a plurality of upper displays forming a single common effect image display screen constituted by gaming terminal areas corresponding to the respective gaming terminals, and a center controller are included. The center controller determines whether a common game is being run when an independent special game is started, and produces an effect in the gaming terminal area corresponding to the gaming terminal, only when the common game is not being run.