METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER

• US 20110183744A1
• Filed: 01/27/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Original Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Restuccia, David Anthony
• Application Number:
  US13/015,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20110183744A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/24
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3269 Timing aspects of game play, e.g. blocking/halting the operation of a gaming machine

Abstract

Certain examples provide systems, methods, and apparatus for gaming. An example method includes initiating a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game; altering the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and terminating the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

Claims

1. A method of gaming comprising:

initiating a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

altering the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

terminating the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising altering the initial or current expected time duration of the wagering game by truncating the initial or current expected time duration in response to a truncate event occurring in the wagering game.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising altering the initial or current expected time duration of the wagering game by extending the initial or current expected time duration in response to a extend event occurring in the wagering game.

4. A method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising allocating a truncating duration to truncate the initial or current expected time duration of the wagering game thereby in response to the truncate event occurring in the wagering game.

5. A method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising allocating an extending duration to extend the initial or current expected time duration of the wagering game thereby in response to the extend event occurring in the wagering game.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising allocating a maximum time duration for the current expected time duration of the wagering game.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising awarding a prize to a player of the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising allocating a value of the prize based on the initial or current expected time duration of the wagering game.

9. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wagering game is a bonus game.

10. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising initiating the wagering game by displaying an object to a player of the wagering game on a display, whereby the object travels across the display for the initial or current expected time duration with a displayed rate of travel and distance of travel which reduces iteratively until reaching a threshold value at expiry of the initial or current expected time duration.

11. A method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising altering the displayed rate of travel and distance of travel by further reducing the displayed rate of travel and distance of travel of the object across the display thereby truncating the initial or current expected time duration in response to a truncate event occurring in the wagering game.

12. A method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising altering the displayed rate of travel and distance of travel by extending the reducing displayed rate of travel and distance of travel of the object across the display thereby extending the initial or current expected time duration in response to an extend event occurring in the wagering game.

13. A game controller arranged to:

initiate a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

alter the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

terminate the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

14. A gaming system comprising:

a display for displaying a wagering game to a player; and

a game controller arranged to;

initiate a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

alter the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

terminate the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

15. A gaming system comprising:

a plurality of gaming devices; and

a game controller in data communication with the plurality of gaming devices, the game controller arranged to;

initiate a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

alter the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

terminate the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

16. A gaming system comprising:

at least one gaming device comprising a cabinet, a display mounted within the cabinet arranged to display a wagering game to a player, and a game play mechanism mounted to the cabinet incorporating at least one input device, the game play mechanism operable by the player to place wagers in the wagering game, and a game controller disposed within the cabinet comprising a processor and a memory storing game control instructions which enable the game controller to operate, the game controller arranged to;

initiate the wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

alter the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

terminate the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

17. A gaming system comprising:

means for initiating a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

means for altering the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

means for terminating the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.

18. A computer readable medium comprising computer program code which, when executed, is to implement a method of gaming comprising:

initiating a wagering game comprising an initial expected time duration at which the wagering game will terminate if no time duration altering events occur in the wagering game;

altering the time duration of the wagering game in response to a duration altering event occurring in the wagering game to derive a current expected time duration; and

terminating the wagering game when the initial or current expected time duration expires.