Gaming System Individual Enhancements for Community Event Value Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines lack innovative bonus games that enhance entertainment value and player engagement, leading to a continuous need for new types of bonus games to attract frequent play and increase profitability.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method in a gaming system where multiple gaming terminals participate in a community event, providing individual enhancements with initial values that can be modified based on predetermined criteria, awarding modified values upon triggering the community event, with a controller managing the community display and enhancements across terminals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional bonus games are used, then player engagement is maintained at current levels, but entertainment value and player attraction do not increase
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system is segmented into multiple independent gaming terminals, each capable of participating in community events autonomously. Each terminal has its own display, controller, and game state management, allowing the system to scale by adding more terminals without increasing individual terminal complexity. This segmentation enables the system to offer diverse community events across multiple terminals while maintaining manageable complexity at each node.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming terminals are designed with multi-functionality to participate in various types of community events (bonuses, tournaments, progressive jackpots) using the same hardware and software architecture. The controller can manage different event types and the same terminal can host different games, making the system versatile without requiring specialized equipment for each game type.
2Productivity
If individual enhancements with modified values are awarded, then player engagement and entertainment value increase, but the complexity of managing enhancements across multiple terminals increases
Solution Approach 1:
A central controller acts as an intermediary between multiple gaming terminals, managing the complexity of enhancement distribution. The controller receives requests from terminals, determines enhancement values based on game outcomes, and distributes modified values back to appropriate terminals. This intermediary approach centralizes the complex logic while keeping individual terminals relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes parameters of individual enhancements (such as award multipliers, bonus credits, or feature activations) based on game outcomes and community event status. These parameter modifications are calculated and applied automatically by the controller, allowing dynamic adjustment of enhancement values without requiring complex manual intervention at each terminal.
3Productivity
If community events are implemented across multiple terminals, then operator profitability increases through shared outcomes, but the system requires more complex coordination and communication between terminals
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple gaming terminals are merged into a unified community event system where outcomes and enhancements are shared. The controller combines results from various terminals to determine community-wide bonus distributions, allowing profits to be pooled and distributed across the network. This merging creates a synergistic effect where the whole system generates more value than individual terminals would alone.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where terminal performance and game outcomes are continuously monitored and used to adjust future enhancement distributions. The controller receives feedback from each terminal about game states and outcomes, processes this information against community event rules, and provides feedback in the form of award decisions back to the terminals. This automated feedback mechanism manages coordination complexity through systematic information exchange.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method is conducted in a gaming system including a plurality of gaming terminals that participate in a community event. The method includes providing, by at least one of one or more processors, individual enhancements at one or more of the plurality of gaming terminals. Each of the individual enhancements has an initial value prior to the community event being triggered. If the initial value exceeds a predetermined value upon the community event being triggered, the initial value is modified to a modified value based on the initial value. The modified value is awarded upon the community event being triggered.