Dynamic Modifier Assignment for Gaming Symbol Display Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming machines lack innovative features to enhance player engagement and excitement, as they primarily rely on static award structures and limited modifier functions, failing to provide diverse and dynamic award opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that introduces modifiers for symbol display areas, where winning outcomes in one play modify awards in subsequent plays, associating modifiers with symbol display areas based on winning symbol combinations, and adjusting these modifiers dynamically based on gameplay results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional gaming machines use static award structures, then the device complexity is low, but player engagement and excitement are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic award structures by introducing modifiers that can be associated with symbol display areas and applied to awards based on game outcomes. Modifiers such as multipliers are dynamically assigned to symbols or display areas during gameplay, transforming static awards into dynamic, variable outcomes that adapt to game events and player actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of award values by introducing modifiers that multiply or alter base award amounts. These modifiers are assigned to specific symbol display areas and can change the award parameters dynamically based on winning combinations, transforming fixed award structures into flexible, parameter-adjustable systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If gaming machines provide multiple award opportunities with modifiers, then player engagement increases, but the game rules and operations become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The modifier system operates autonomously based on predefined game rules and random outcomes. Modifiers are automatically assigned to symbol display areas and applied to awards without requiring complex player decisions or interventions, allowing the system to enhance awards while maintaining operational simplicity through automated processes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If modifiers are dynamically assigned to symbol display areas, then award variety and player interest are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the gaming system into distinct symbol display areas, each capable of independently holding modifiers. This segmentation allows modifiers to be assigned and managed at the individual display area level rather than system-wide, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining flexibility in award enhancement.
Solution Approach 2:
Different symbol display areas can have different modifiers assigned to them, creating local variations in award potential. Each display area can have its own modifier characteristics, allowing the system to provide diverse award opportunities without requiring complex global management of uniform modifiers.
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A gaming system, gaming device, and method providing a game providing modifiers for symbol display areas. Symbols are generated at symbol display areas. If a symbol display area displaying a symbol included in a displayed designated winning symbol combination is associated with an existing modifier, the gaming system modifies any award associated with that displayed designated winning symbol combination using the existing modifier and associates another different modifier with that symbol display area for a subsequent play of the game. In one embodiment the different modifier is a more favorable modifier. If none of the symbol display areas displaying the symbols included in a displayed designated winning symbol combination are associated with an existing modifier, the gaming system associates a modifier with a symbol display area for a subsequent play of the game.