Gaming System Persistent Elements Bonus Trigger
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces challenges in creating a balance between making gaming apparatus yield a negative return on investment in the long run while remaining random and volatile enough to encourage player participation, and in improving processing speed and efficiency to support advanced graphics and animations.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine and method that utilize game-logic circuitry and a presentation assembly to present symbol-bearing reels, with persistent elements that trigger game features and bonus modes based on accumulation symbols, enhancing player engagement and processing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the gaming apparatus uses a random element generator to create volatile outcomes, then player engagement and feeling of luck are improved, but the long-term return on investment becomes negative
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary actions by awarding game features and free spins in advance based on random determinations before the main game play. This creates immediate player engagement and excitement while the underlying random number generator maintains the negative long-term return structure, resolving the contradiction between short-term player engagement and long-term house edge
2Ease of operation
If the gaming apparatus implements advanced graphics and multiple game features, then entertainment value is improved, but processing speed and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the gaming system into distinct functional components: a random number generator for outcome determination, a game logic processor for feature management, and a presentation system for graphics and animations. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently and efficiently, maintaining processing speed while delivering advanced entertainment features through specialized processing
3Device complexity
If the gaming apparatus provides multiple random outcome determinations per feature, then game complexity and excitement are improved, but processing efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs multiple random outcome determinations in advance as preliminary actions before the main game features execute. The random number generator determines all possible outcomes and game features upfront, allowing the presentation system to display complex animations and multiple outcomes without real-time processing delays, thus maintaining processing efficiency while delivering complex game experiences
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AI summary
There are provided a gaming machine and method that utilize game-logic circuitry and a presentation assembly configured to present a plurality of symbol-bearing reels, an array, and a plurality of persistent elements. The plurality of reels are spun and stopped to land symbols from the reels in the array. In response to the landed symbols including at least one accumulation symbol, an animation of addition of the accumulation symbol to one of the plurality of persistent elements is presented. A random determination whether or not to trigger one or more game features is made. If the determination is to trigger the one or more game features, a bonus mode is entered and the one or more game features are implemented via the game-logic circuitry for subsequent spins of the game, for any free games awarded during the subsequent spins, or any combination thereof until the bonus mode is terminated.