DYNAMIC WAGER UPDATING GAMBLING HYBRID GAME

• US 20160086439A1
• Filed: 11/30/2015
• Published: 03/24/2016
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,026,261 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3204 Player-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A gambling hybrid game with dynamic wager updating is disclosed. The gambling hybrid game includes an entertainment system engine that provides an entertainment game to a user, a real world engine that provides gambling games to one or more users, and a game world engine that monitors the entertainment game and provides gambling games when appropriate. The gambling hybrid game during the course of game play may dynamically update a wager amount to be placed on a gambling event in the gambling game

Claims

1. A casino electronic game machine providing dynamic wager updating in a gambling hybrid game that includes an entertainment game and a gambling game, comprising:

a real world engine comprising;

a real world credit meter;

a random number generator; and

a real world credit pay table, wherein the real world engine is configured to;

receive real world credit from a portable media, wherein the portable media includes at least one member of a group including currency, a voucher and a smart card; and

provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager of real world credits in a gambling game using the random number generator and real world credit pay table;

augment an amount of real world credits stored in the real world credit meter based on the randomly generated payout of real world credits to the real world credit meter;

an entertainment software engine configured to;

execute the entertainment game;

generate an update indicating a game state of the entertainment game;

communicate, to a game world engine, the update indicating the game state of the entertainment game;

receive, from the game world engine, an adjusted wager;

communicate, to the game world engine, the confirmation from a player of the adjusted wager for a gambling event;

receive, from the game world engine, a result of the gambling event;

a display screen configured to display a user interface that displays an adjusted wager, and display the result of the gambling event;

a user input device configured to receive confirmation from the player of the adjusted wager;

the game world engine configured to;

monitor the 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;

receive, from the entertainment system engine, the update indicating the game state of the entertainment game;

adjust the wager to provide the adjusted wager for use in the gambling event based upon the update of the game state;

communicate, to the entertainment system engine, the adjusted wager;

receive, from the entertainment system engine, the confirmation from the player of the adjusted wager for the gambling event;

determine an occurrence of the gambling event in the gambling game based on play of the entertainment game executed by the entertainment system engine;

communicate, to the real world engine, a request that the gambling event be resolved in response to the confirmation;

receive, from the real world engine, the result of the gambling event; and

communicate, to the entertainment system engine, the result of the gambling event.

2. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the display is dynamically updated with each adjustment to the wager on an outcome of the gambling event.

3. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein the entertainment game includes one or more enabling elements that are used to determine the game state of the entertainment game, the enabling element is consumed through game play of the entertainment game in a manner that is responsive to a player action, and the adjusted wager is based upon the consumption of the enabling element.

4. The casino electronic game machine of claim 3, wherein one or more enabling elements are consumed during a turn of game play and the wager is adjusted in response to consumption of each enabling element received during the turn of game play.

5. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1, wherein at least one of (i) an amount of the wager on an outcome of the gambling event, (ii) a volatility of the wager and (iii) a number of wagers is adjusted in response to the state of the game.