Gaming Display Visual Effects for Noisy Bonus Event Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic wagering systems struggle to effectively communicate and convey bonus events, such as mid-bonus win-alls, collect-alls, and roll-ups, to users, especially in noisy environments like casinos, impairing user experience and enjoyment.
Innovation Solution
Implementing metamorphic visuals on electronic gaming machines that dynamically reflect user progress and bonus events through animations and visual effects, synchronizing these visuals with gameplay events to enhance user comprehension.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional audio/verbal announcements are used to communicate bonus events, then the system can convey information, but the effectiveness is impaired in noisy casino environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces acoustic information transmission with visual information transmission. Instead of relying on audio announcements that are blocked by noise, the system uses visual effects displayed on the gaming machine screen to communicate bonus events, mid-bonus win-alls, collect-alls, and roll-ups to players.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces visual effects as an intermediary medium between the game system and the player. These visual effects serve as a mediator that conveys game state information without being affected by environmental noise, bridging the communication gap in noisy casino settings.
2Loss of information
If visual effects are added to communicate bonus events, then user comprehension is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the existing display device serve multiple functions: it continues to display the base game while also presenting visual effects for bonus events. This multi-functionality allows the system to enhance communication without adding separate dedicated hardware components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the visual effects rendering with the existing game display system. The visual effects are integrated into the same display device and control system that already renders the game graphics, combining multiple functions into a unified system rather than adding separate components.
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AI summary
A system for displaying visual effects corresponding to events that occur in connection with bonus features of electronic wagering games may include and/or implement a display device and/or circuitry. In one example, the circuitry may be configured to detect a first event that triggers a bonus feature of an electronic wagering game and to detect, during implementation of the bonus feature, a second event that triggers a first collection of one or more values represented by one or more symbols on one or more reels of the electronic wagering game. In this example, the circuitry may also be configured to perform, upon completion of the bonus feature, a second collection of the values represented by the symbols and to then direct the display device to render one or more visual effects corresponding to the first event and the second event. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.