Gaming System Bonus Trigger via Symbol-Background Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines lack mechanisms to enhance player enjoyment and excitement by providing a clear and understandable event for triggering bonus games, leading to random and unrelatable bonus initiations.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that displays a designated quantity of symbols associated with a background, offering an additional award opportunity when a specific number of these symbols match the background, creating a discernible event for players to 'root for' during gameplay.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If bonus games are triggered randomly during primary game play, then the gaming system can provide bonus awards, but player enjoyment and excitement are not maximized because players have nothing to root for
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by displaying a designated background and associated symbols during primary game play before the bonus game is triggered. This creates a visible target and objective for players to root for, transforming the random bonus triggering into an event with player engagement. The background and symbols are prepared in advance and displayed throughout multiple primary game plays, allowing players to anticipate and engage with the potential bonus trigger condition.
2Ease of operation
If the gaming system provides multiple backgrounds with associated symbols, then player engagement increases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system implements universality by using a single background display mechanism that serves multiple functions: it displays the designated background, displays associated symbols, and triggers bonus games based on symbol associations. The same display system used for primary game outcomes is also used to display the background and symbols, eliminating the need for separate dedicated display hardware and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining player engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies nesting by embedding the bonus game trigger mechanism within the existing primary game display structure. The background and associated symbols are nested within the primary game play interface, and the bonus trigger condition is nested within the symbol display logic. This hierarchical nesting allows the system to add engagement features without creating separate parallel systems, thereby controlling complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing an additional award opportunity when a designated quantity of displayed symbols is associated with a displayed background. For a play of a game, the gaming system displays one of a plurality of different backgrounds and a plurality of a plurality of different symbols on, over, or otherwise in addition to the displayed background. The gaming system determines and provides any awards associated with the displayed symbols. If a designated quantity of at least one of the displayed symbols is associated with the displayed background, the gaming system provides an additional award opportunity.