Slider Window Bonus Reels for Clearer Wagering Event Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic wagering systems face challenges in effectively communicating and conveying bonus awards, regulating randomness, ensuring suitable RTP, configuring triggers for visually thematic bonus features, controlling transition speeds, and enhancing user comprehension of gameplay events, especially in noisy environments like casinos.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a graphical slot machine with a slider window that unlocks symbols and applies boosters/multipliers, dynamically adjusting parameters, and coordinating visual effects to convey bonus events, while regulating randomness and RTP through weighted lookup tables and RNG-based triggers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional slot games use static displays to show bonus awards, then the device complexity is low, but user comprehension of gameplay events is insufficient and communication effectiveness is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by transforming static bonus display elements into animated, moving components. The slider window moves horizontally across the reel display, and blocks with symbols animate their appearance and movement. This dynamic visual language effectively communicates bonus award information to players while maintaining engaging gameplay, resolving the contradiction between information communication effectiveness and display complexity.
2Loss of information
If the game uses a slider window that moves over reels to unlock symbols, then user comprehension of bonus events is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the reel display into multiple independent blocks, each containing symbols that can be individually unlocked. The slider window interacts with these segmented blocks, moving across them to reveal unlocked symbols. This segmentation allows the complex bonus communication function to be broken down into manageable visual units, reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining effective information delivery.
3Ease of operation
If the game dynamically adjusts parameters and controls transition speeds, then user experience is improved, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring randomness and RTP regulation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the game system monitors player interactions and bonus event progression, dynamically adjusting transition speeds and parameter changes based on current game state. This feedback loop enhances user experience by creating more engaging and responsive gameplay. The feedback is managed through controlled RNG triggers and weighted lookup tables that maintain RTP regulation while allowing dynamic adjustments, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and measurement of randomness.
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AI summary
A system for providing and displaying visually interactive bonus features in electronic wagering games may include a display device and/or circuitry. The circuitry may be configured to lock, as part of a bonus feature in an electronic wagering game presented via the display device, a set of blocks on reels of the electronic wagering game. The circuitry may also be configured to move, during implementation of the bonus feature, a slider window in at least one direction over the reels in connection with a reel spin and to then unlock one or more symbols rendered in a subset of the blocks due at least in part to the slider window landing over the subset of blocks. The circuitry may be further configured to perform a collection of one or more values represented by the symbols rendered in the subset of blocks. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.