User selectable gambling game hybrid game

• US 10,460,558 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2018
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC (Hard 8 Games, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC (Hard 8 Games, LLC)
• Inventors: Arnone, Miles, Meyerhofer, Eric, Chang, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US16/049,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20180336761A1
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3246 involving coins and/or banknotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3251 involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3295 Games involving skill, e.g. dexterity, memory, thinking
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A hybrid game having a user selectable gambling game is provided. The hybrid game includes a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of credits from a wager for a plurality of gambling games, an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game to earn a payout of game world credits, and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger at least one wager in the gambling game to the gambling game, receive entertainment game variable data from the entertainment software engine to determine what type of gambling game to execute, from a plurality of gambling games, and initiate a gambling game, from the plurality of gambling games, in the real world engine utilizing the wager, based upon the entertainment game variable data received from the entertainment software engine.

Claims

1. A casino electronic game machine for providing a user selectable gambling game hybrid game, comprising:

a real world engine comprising;

a credit meter;

a random number generator; and

wherein the real world engine is configured to;

receive credit from a player; and

provide a randomly generated payout of credits from a wager in a gambling game using the random number generator;

adjust the credit meter on the basis of the randomly generated payout;

an entertainment software engine configured to;

execute an entertainment game stored on a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium;

generate a user interface that depicts at least one graphic representing a selectable gambling game of a plurality of gambling games using a display screen based on a gambling game metric; and

generate a user interface that displays a change in the credit meter;

a user input device configured to receive a player'"'"'s skillful selection of the graphic representing the selectable gambling game of the plurality of gambling games during the execution of the entertainment game; and

a game world engine constructed to;

monitor entertainment game gameplay player actions for a gambling event occurrence detected during the player'"'"'s skillful execution of the entertainment game in accordance with at least one gambling event occurrence rule;

communicate the gameplay gambling event occurrence to the real world engine, where the gambling event occurrence triggers the wager made in accordance with a wager execution rule executed by the real world engine during the player'"'"'s skillful execution of the entertainment game;

receive entertainment game variable data from the entertainment software engine to determine the selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games, wherein the entertainment game variable data includes the player'"'"'s skillful selection of the graphic representing the selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games; and

initiate the selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games in the real world engine utilizing the real credit wager.

2. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the gambling game metric is a rate at which the player initiates wagers.

3. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2, wherein availability of the at least one graphic representing the selectable gambling game is restricted based on the rate at which the player initiates wagers.

4. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein each gambling game of the plurality of gambling games has a different volatility index.

5. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4, wherein the selected gambling game is a slot machine.

6. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4, wherein the selected gambling game is roulette.

7. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4, wherein the selected gambling game is wheel of fortune (big 6 wheel).

8. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4, wherein the selected gambling game is poker.

9. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4, wherein the selected gambling game is blackjack.

10. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4, wherein the selected gambling game is craps.

11. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein failure to skillfully select the gambling game from the plurality of gambling games causes the player to be penalized in the entertainment game.

12. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the entertainment software engine is further configured to generate a display of the selected gambling game that overlays the display of the entertainment game.

13. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the at least one graphic representing the selectable gambling game has a visual glow effect.

14. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the at least one graphic representing the selectable gambling game of the plurality of gambling games is presented sequentially.

15. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the at least one graphic representing the selectable gambling game of the plurality of gambling games is presented in parallel.

16. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the at least one graphic representing the selectable gambling game of the plurality of gambling games is mixed in with a plurality of entertainment game graphics.