Gaming System Numeric Symbol Display for Payout Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming systems lack features to enhance player engagement and entertainment by providing clear notifications of the amount of game media to be paid out during progressive jackpots, leading to a lack of excitement and emotional investment in the game.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with a network of machines that includes an input device, a numeric-symbol display, and a controller, where the system processes BET information to determine and display a total point value corresponding to a special payout, using a combination of numeric symbols, allowing players to recognize the payout amount and experience emotional highs and lows.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the payout amount is not clearly notified to players, then the system maintains simplicity in information display, but player engagement and emotional investment decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The payout amount information is segmented into multiple numeric symbols displayed across separate display regions. Each display region shows a portion of the total payout amount as individual numeric symbols, allowing players to gradually recognize the full payout amount through cumulative visual information rather than displaying the complete amount at once.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary display of numeric symbols that represent portions of the payout amount before the final payout is completed. By displaying these numeric symbols in advance across multiple display regions, players can anticipate the payout amount and experience emotional engagement during the game process.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display regions are used to show numeric symbols, then player engagement and anticipation are enhanced, but data storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into multiple independent display regions, each capable of showing numeric symbols. This segmentation allows flexible arrangement of payout amount information across different spatial locations on the display device, enhancing visual engagement without requiring proportional increases in data storage capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The same payout amount information is represented in multiple forms across different display regions. Instead of storing separate data for each display region, the system uses the same underlying payout data to generate visual representations in multiple locations, reducing redundant data storage requirements while maintaining display flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
According to a gaming system 300, when BET information has been received from a gaming machine 1, it is determined either no offer of a special payout to the gaming machine 1 of a transmission source of the BET information, or a size of the special payout to be offered to the gaming machine of the transmission source of the BET information is determined, in the external control device 200. When the size of the special payout has been determined, a numeric symbol is displayed to each of display regions from a first display region 500a to a fifth display region 500e in a lower image display panel 141. A sum of numeric values corresponding to a predetermined number of these numeric symbols is a total point value corresponding to the size of the determined special payout.