Enriched game play environment

• US 8,475,266 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2010
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahmed, Masud
• Application Number:
  US13/600,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20120322545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• Field of Search: 463 16- 25, 463 40- 42
• 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:

providing by the gaming system a gambling game that receives a wager of a real world credit and determines a gambling outcome using the wager;

providing by the gaming system an entertainment game that does not receive wagers of real world credit and determines accumulation of game world credit based on a player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game;

receiving by the gaming system the wager of the real world credit;

creating by the gaming system an enabling element for the entertainment game based on the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by the player;

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

accumulating by the gaming system the game world credit based on the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game and consumption of the enabling element that triggers the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game during the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

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

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

4. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the enabling element in the entertainment game that is correlated with the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game is accumulated based on the gambling outcome of the gambling game.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein an amount of the wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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 wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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 wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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 wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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:

providing by the gaming system a gambling game that receives a wager of a real world credit and determines a gambling outcome using the wager;

providing by the gaming system an entertainment game that does not receive wagers of real world credit and determines accumulation of game world credit based on a player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game;

receiving by the gaming system the wager of the real world credit;

creating by the gaming system an enabling element for the entertainment game based on the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by the player;

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

accumulating by the gaming system the game world credit based on the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game and consumption of the enabling element that triggers the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game during 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 consumed is based on an amount of the wager of the real world credit.

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

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein an amount of the enabling element in the entertainment game that is correlated with the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game is accumulated based on the gambling outcome of the gambling game.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein an amount of the wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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 wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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 wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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 their wager of the real world credit wagered in the gambling game is 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.

20. A gaming system, comprising:

a gambling game that receives a wager of a real world credit and determines a gambling outcome using the wager;

an entertainment game that does not receive wagers of real world credit and determines accumulation of game world credit based on a player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game;

a game world engine constructed to;

create an enabling element for the entertainment game based on the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by the player;

correlate the wager of the real world credit of the real world engine with the enabling element of the entertainment game by triggering the execution of the gambling game to consume the wager of the real word credit in the gambling game and determine the gambling outcome of the gambling game, when the player operates the entertainment game and consumes the enabling element; and

accumulate the game world credit based on the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game and consumption of the enabling element that triggers the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game during the player'"'"'s operation of the entertainment game.

21. The gaming system of claim 20, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine a type of the consumed enabling element based on an amount of the wager of the real world credit.

22. The gaming system of claim 20, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine an amount of the enabling element consumed based on an amount of the wager of the real world credit wagered.

23. The gaming system of claim 20, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine an amount of the enabling element in the entertainment game that is correlated with the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game is accumulated based on the gambling outcome of the gambling game.

24. The gaming system of claim 20, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager 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.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, 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.

26. The gaming system of claim 20, wherein the game world engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager 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 20, wherein the game word engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager 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 20, wherein the game word engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager 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 20, wherein the entertainment game is a console video.

30. The gaming system of claim 20, wherein the entertainment game is a personal computer video game.