Linked Progressive Spins Controller for Gaming Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic gaming systems struggle to provide a shared progressive jackpot that is consistent across multiple gaming devices, while also ensuring Return to Player (RTP) is controlled and display improvements are made to enhance player experience.
Innovation Solution
A progressive controller is configured to manage a shared progressive play meter, such as linked free spins, that is the same across all devices, with the ability to increase or reset based on trigger conditions, and to control RTP by varying the outcome of free spins based on wager amount, using a progressive controller with processors and memory to store and display the shared progressive amount.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a shared progressive jackpot is implemented across multiple gaming devices, then player engagement and excitement are enhanced, but ensuring consistent progressive amounts and controlling RTP across all devices becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple gaming devices are merged into a single progressive network where a central server manages the shared progressive jackpot. The progressive amount is consolidated across all devices and updated centrally, ensuring consistency while maintaining player engagement across the entire network.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the progressive amount is continuously monitored and updated across all devices. When a trigger condition occurs, the system feedbacks the updated progressive amount to all devices, ensuring synchronized display and maintaining RTP control through centralized management.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the progressive amount is increased to enhance player excitement, then player engagement improves, but the frequency of increases must be controlled to maintain RTP
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes parameters such as the progressive amount and trigger condition frequency dynamically. By adjusting these parameters, the system can enhance player engagement through exciting progressive increases while maintaining RTP control through regulated trigger conditions and payout structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The progressive system is made dynamic with variable trigger conditions and progressive amounts that adapt to player behavior and game state. This dynamic approach allows the system to balance player engagement with RTP control by adjusting the timing and magnitude of progressive increases based on real-time game parameters.
3Adaptability or versatility
If trigger conditions are made more frequent to increase progressive spins, then player engagement improves, but the progressive jackpot grows faster reducing longevity
Solution Approach 1:
The system adjusts parameters such as trigger condition frequency and progressive spin amounts dynamically. By varying these parameters, the system can optimize the balance between free spin frequency for player engagement and jackpot longevity, ensuring the progressive jackpot sustains its value while providing frequent exciting moments.
Solution Approach 2:
The trigger conditions and progressive spin parameters are made dynamic rather than fixed. The system adapts these parameters based on game state, player behavior, and jackpot level, allowing frequent engaging triggers at certain stages while maintaining jackpot longevity through adjusted parameters at other stages.
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AI summary
An electronic gaming system including a plurality of electronic gaming devices and a progressive controller in communication with the plurality of electronic gaming devices is described. The progressive controller causes display of a number of linked progressive free spins at each electronic gaming device of the plurality of electronic gaming devices and determines, during an electronic game, that a progressive symbol is displayed on a display device of at least one electronic gaming device of the plurality of electronic gaming devices. The progressive controller also causes the number of linked progressive free spins to be increased to an updated number of linked progressive free spins and, based upon the updated number of linked progressive free spins, causes display of the updated number of linked progressive free spins at each electronic gaming device of the plurality of electronic gaming devices.