Multi-Game Jackpot Management via Segmented Random Outcomes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic gaming machines (EGMs) face challenges in enhancing user interface (UI) design and player experience due to the need for improved usability and regulation-compliant game features, particularly in managing multiple jackpots and volatility across games within a multi-game package.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that load a lobby with multiple games, allowing each game to trigger and manage its specific jackpots independently while simultaneously funding and adjusting multiple game-specific jackpots based on play rounds, using a processor to generate random outcomes and determine jackpot features and payouts, ensuring compliance with gaming regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple games are included in a multi-game package with game-specific jackpots, then player experience and equity building are improved, but device complexity and jackpot management become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments jackpot management into game-specific components, where each game has its own dedicated jackpot pool and triggering mechanics. The processor independently evaluates random outcomes against each game-specific jackpot's criteria, allowing parallel management of multiple jackpots without interference. This segmentation enables the multi-game package to function as multiple independent games while simplifying the overall management architecture.
2Reliability
If random outcomes are generated for each game independently, then game fairness and regulatory compliance are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring each game-specific jackpot with its triggering criteria, probability thresholds, and payout structures before gameplay begins. The processor is pre-programmed with the logic to evaluate random outcomes against multiple independent jackpot criteria simultaneously. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for complex real-time calculations during gameplay, maintaining fairness while reducing processing time.
3Productivity
If multiple stand-alone progressive jackpots are managed simultaneously, then player incentives and engagement are improved, but system resource consumption and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the management of multiple stand-alone progressive jackpots into a unified processor-controlled architecture. The processor simultaneously tracks and evaluates multiple independent random outcome sets against multiple jackpot criteria, consolidating resource consumption into a single efficient evaluation process. This merging approach maintains high player engagement through multiple incentive structures while optimizing system resource usage by avoiding redundant processing for each individual jackpot.
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AI summary
A multi-game environment for a gaming device is described. A lobby includes a first game and a second game in a multi-game package. The first game is eligible to payout a first stand-alone progressive jackpot and ineligible to payout a second stand-along progressive jackpot. The second game is eligible to payout a second stand-along progressive jackpot and ineligible to payout the first stand-alone progressive jackpot. A round of play in the first game initiates and the first stand-alone progressive jackpot and the second stand-along progressive jackpot adjust according to a funding rate. A first set of random based game outcomes generates for the round of play to randomly determine whether a jackpot feature is triggered. A second set of random based game outcomes is generated to randomly determine whether to payout the first stand-alone progressive jackpot.