Gaming Device Parameter Control via Random Events
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Solution Overview
Problem
Casinos face challenges in enhancing the entertainment value of gaming devices to maintain revenue, as competing entertainment options expand, and existing methods, such as attractive colors and jackpots, are insufficient to retain player engagement.
Innovation Solution
Gaming devices set or modify game parameters using random events, such as spinning reels, to control aspects of play, including symbol types and bonus point awards, allowing for dynamic and unpredictable gaming experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional entertainment methods (attractive colors, sound effects, jackpots) are used to enhance player engagement, then the entertainment value is improved, but the effectiveness is insufficient to retain player engagement due to expanded competing entertainment options
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic parameter adjustment where game parameters are randomly selected and modified during gameplay based on player performance and random events. This creates a dynamically changing gaming experience that adapts to player actions, making the game more engaging and difficult to predict, thereby improving both entertainment value and player retention
Solution Approach 2:
The system randomly modifies game parameters such as symbol types, bonus point awards, and payout structures during gameplay. These parameter changes create variability and unpredictability in the gaming experience, enhancing entertainment value while maintaining player engagement through evolving game conditions
2Reliability
If game parameters are fixed to ensure fair and predictable gameplay, then reliability is improved, but adaptability and entertainment value deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes base game parameters in advance that ensure fair gameplay, then overlays random modification events that occur during play. This preliminary setup maintains fairness while allowing dynamic changes enhance variability, resolving the contradiction between fixed reliability and adaptive entertainment
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements periodic random events that modify game parameters at intervals during gameplay. These periodic changes maintain fairness through structured randomness while providing variability and adaptability, allowing the game to remain predictable in its fairness but unpredictable in its entertainment value
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AI summary
The present invention allows gaming devices to set or modify game parameters through the use of random events such as spinning slot machine reels or random number generators. In some embodiments, game parameters may be established with various initial values, and then, by spinning the gaming devices' reels, for example, random reel values lining up on the payline may be used as new game parameter values. Parameter values may be used to control or initialize almost any aspect of the gaming device play experience, ranging from the types of symbols seen on the reels, to the appearance or behavior of game characters, to the rate at which “complementary” points are awarded.