Tournament Gaming System Shared Elements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines struggle to maintain player engagement and attract frequent play, as existing systems lack innovative features that enhance entertainment value and encourage collaboration among players.
Innovation Solution
A tournament gaming system that allows multiple players to participate in shared game-play series with randomly determined outcomes, assigning ranks and awarding tournament elements based on performance, which can be shared between players to enhance their chances of winning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional gaming machines operate independently with base games and bonus games, then each machine can provide entertainment value, but player engagement and frequency of play are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent gaming machines into a unified tournament system where players from different machines compete together. The tournament controller aggregates game outcomes from multiple machines and provides centralized awards, creating a merged gaming experience that increases player engagement and frequency of play while maintaining the entertainment value of individual machines
2Productivity
If tournament systems are introduced to increase player engagement, then entertainment value and frequency of play improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tournament system is segmented into distinct functional components: individual gaming machines that maintain their base games, a separate tournament controller that manages tournament logic, and a communication network that connects them. This segmentation allows the tournament functionality to be added without fundamentally redesigning the core gaming machine architecture, thus managing system complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If tournament elements are shared between players, then collaborative engagement increases, but individual player incentives may be diluted
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides different types of incentives with different qualities: individual performance awards that recognize solo achievement, and shared tournament awards that recognize collaborative success. This local differentiation of incentive types allows both individual and collaborative engagement to be rewarded appropriately, preventing dilution of individual incentives while promoting collaboration
Data Source
AI summary
A tournament gaming system offers a wagering game tournament to players and includes displaying game-play series on a first display device and a second display device. A plurality of players, including a first player and a second player, participate in the game-play series. In accordance with respective randomly selected outcomes achieved in the plurality of game-play series, the players are assigned a tournament rank. A tournament element is shared between the first player and the second player in response to a tournament incentive. The tournament element has an effect on the tournament rank. A tournament award is awarded based on the tournament rank.