Touchscreen Bonus Event Wild Card Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current slot machine games lack innovative features to sustain player engagement and differentiate themselves in a competitive market, as bonus events and progressive jackpots, while popular, often rely on traditional methods that may decrement base game payouts and lack interactive player participation.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a touchscreen-sensitive electronic video gaming machine system that triggers bonus events by displaying wild card symbols and randomly generated symbols, allowing players to interactively place these symbols on a slot screen, determining bonus outcomes through paylines, enhancing player engagement and interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional bonus events and progressive jackpots are implemented, then player engagement and revenue are improved, but base game payouts are decremented and player interaction is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The bonus event is segmented into distinct phases: trigger phase (forming the initial set of symbols), player interaction phase (player selects positions for symbols), and resolution phase (determining outcomes based on paylines). This segmentation allows the bonus event to function independently with its own payout structure, reducing the burden on base game payouts while maintaining player engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a spatial dimension to traditional slot gameplay by allowing players to select specific positions for symbols on the reel set. Instead of simply receiving random symbol arrangements, players can place symbols at chosen locations, creating a two-dimensional interaction space that enhances engagement without requiring increased base game payouts.
2Ease of operation
If interactive player participation is added to bonus events, then player engagement is improved, but device complexity is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides immediate visual feedback when players select positions for symbols, showing exactly where each symbol will appear on the reel set. This feedback mechanism simplifies the interaction by making the cause-effect relationship transparent, reducing the perceived complexity for players while enabling sophisticated bonus event mechanics.
Solution Approach 2:
Players autonomously select positions for symbols within the bonus event, making their own strategic decisions about symbol placement. This self-service approach eliminates the need for complex automated decision-making systems, reducing device complexity while maintaining high player engagement through active participation.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and apparatus provides a bonus event on an electronic video gaming machine having touchscreen sensitivity on a video display in communication with a processor. The method includes:a) triggering a bonus event;b) providing and displaying at least one wild card symbol in a fixed position in columns and rows used to determine a bonus outcome;c) the processor generates a first random symbol for use in the bonus game which is displayed on the video gaming machine;d) the touch screen is activated so that a final position for the first random symbol is selectable by touchscreen activity;e) the processor filling the unfilled frames with random symbols; andf) the processor resolving a bonus outcome of the bonus outcome according to paylines within the columns and rows used to determine the bonus outcome.