ENRICHED GAME PLAY ENVIRONMENT

• US 20120322545A1
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mercury And Associates Structure II, LLC
• Original Assignee: Mercury And Associates Structure II, LLC
• Inventors: Arnone, Miles, Meyerhofer, Eric James
• Granted Patent: US 8,475,266 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• 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 17/3272 Games involving multiple players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3295 Games involving skill, e.g. dexterity, memory, thinking

Abstract

A gaming system is provided. The gaming system provides players a rich (i.e. akin to leading home- and arcade-based video games) single-player, multi-player cooperative and/or head to head environment in which the participant(s) win cash and credits as a result of their play activity within the environment, based on the wagers which they make entering and playing a game of the gaming system.

Claims

1. A method of operating a gaming system, comprising:

receiving by the gaming system a real world credit;

enabling by the gaming system a gambling game that consumes the real world credit;

creating by the gaming system an enabling element for an entertainment game of an entertainment software engine based on the real world credit, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by a player;

correlating by the gaming system the real world credit with the enabling element of the entertainment game by triggering the execution of the gambling game to consume the real word credit when the player operates the entertainment game and consumes the enabling element; and

accumulating by the gaming system game world credit by the gaming system based on the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a type of the enabling element is based on an amount of the real world credit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the enabling element is based on an amount of the real world credit.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the enabling element is accumulated based on an outcome of the gambling game.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a type of the enabling element consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on an amount of the enabling element consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a rate the enabling element is consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a level the player achieves in the entertainment game by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of enabling elements are created, consumed and correlated.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of enabling elements are composed of different types of enabling elements, the different types of enabling elements enabling different features of the entertainment game operated by the player.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for a method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising:

receiving by the gaming system, a real world credit;

enabling by the gaming system a gambling game that consumes the real world credit;

creating by the gaming system an enabling element for an entertainment game of an entertainment software engine based on the real world credit, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by a player;

correlating by the gaming system the real world credit with the enabling element of the entertainment game by triggering execution of the gambling game to consume the real word credit when the player operates the entertainment game and consumes the enabling element; and

accumulating by the gaming system game world credit based on the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein a type of the enabling element is based on an amount of the real world credit.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein an amount of the enabling element is based on an amount of the real world credit.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein an amount of the enabling element is accumulated based on an outcome of the gambling game.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a type of the enabling element consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on the amount of the enabling element consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on the rate the enabling element is consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein an amount of the real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a level the player achieves in the entertainment game by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein a plurality of enabling elements are created, consumed and correlated.

21. A gaming system, comprising:

a real world engine constructed to receive a real world credit and enable a gambling game that consumes the real world credit;

a game world engine constructed to;

create creating an enabling element for an entertainment game of an entertainment software engine based on the real world credit, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by a player and correlate the real world credit of the real world engine with the enabling element of the entertainment game by triggering the real world engine to execute the gambling game to consume the real word credit when the player operates the entertainment game and consumes the enabling element; and

accumulate game world credit based on the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the plurality of enabling elements are composed of different types of enabling elements, the different types of enabling elements enabling different features of the entertainment game operated by the player.

22. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine a type of the enabling element based on an amount of the real world credit.

23. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine an amount of the enabling element based on an amount of the real world credit.

24. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine an amount of the enabling element accumulated based on an outcome of the gambling game.

25. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the real world engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the real world credit in the gambling game based on a type of the enabling element consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

26. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the real world engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the real world credit in the gambling game based on an amount of the enabling element consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

27. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the real word engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the real world credit in the gambling game based on the rate the enabling element is consumed by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

28. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the real word engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the real world credit in the gambling game based on a level the player achieves in the entertainment game by the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

29. The gaming system of claim 21, wherein the entertainment software engine is constructed to use a console video game as the entertainment game.

30. The gaming system of claim 31, wherein the entertainment software engine is constructed to use a personal computer video game as the entertainment game.