Amusement device including provision for tracking a player's top score
View Patent ↗A method of tracking electronic game score information for a plurality of players participating in an amusement system is disclosed. The amusement system includes at least one amusement device communicating with a central server over a network. The amusement device has a display, a memory storing a plurality of electronic games and a controller. The central server maintains a plurality of player accounts corresponding to the plurality of players. Each of the player accounts includes best score information for at least one of the plurality of electronic games played by the respective player on the amusement device. The central server receives score update information associated with the player accounts from the amusement device and updates the player accounts with the received score update information.
1. A method of tracking electronic game score information for a plurality of players participating in an amusement system, the amusement system comprising at least a first amusement device communicating with a central server over a network, the first amusement device having a video display, a memory storing a plurality of electronic games and a controller, the method comprising:
a) maintaining, by the central server, a plurality of player accounts corresponding to the plurality of players, the plurality of player accounts including a first player account associated with a first player, the first player account including first best score information, the plurality of electronic games including a first maximum points game and a first head-to-head game, the first best score information including a first high score for the first maximum points game and a first lifetime win-loss record for the first head-to-head game;
b) receiving, via the central server, first score update information associated with the first player account;
c) comparing, by the central server, the first best score information with the received first score update information; and
d) transmitting, via the central server, a game listing of the plurality of electronic games including the first maximum points game and the first head-to-head game and a best score listing of the first best score information to the first amusement device, the first maximum points game positioned proximate the first high score and the first head-to-head game positioned proximate the first lifetime win-loss record.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
e) receiving, at the central server, a log-in request associated with the first player account from the first amusement device; and
f) transmitting, by the central server, the first best score information stored in the first player account to the first amusement device in response to the log-in request of step (e).
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
e) determining, by the central server, whether the first score update information includes a first attained high score for the first maximum points game;
f) identifying, by the central server, the first high score;
g) comparing, with the central server, the first high score with the first attained high score to determine which is greater; and
h) replacing the first high score with the first attained high score in the first player account if the first attained high score is greater than the first high score.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first best score information further includes a second high score associated with a second maximum points game and further comprising:
e) determining, by the central server, whether the first score update information includes a second attained high score for the second maximum points game;
f) identifying, by the central server, the second high score;
g) comparing, via the central server, the second high score with the second attained high score to determine which is greater; and
h) replacing the second high score with the second attained high score in the first player account if the second attained high score is greater than the second high score.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first best score information includes the first high score associated with the first maximum points game, a second high score associated with a second maximum points game, the first lifetime win-loss record associated with the first head-to-head game and a second lifetime win-loss record associated with a second head-to-head game.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the plurality of player accounts includes a second player account associated with a second player, the second player account having second best score information, the second best score information includes a third high score associated with the first maximum points game, a fourth high score associated with the second maximum points game, a third lifetime win-loss record associated with the first head-to-head game and a fourth lifetime win-loss record associated with the second head-to-head game.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first score update information includes a first attained win value and a first attained loss value, the first lifetime win-loss record includes a first total win value and a first total loss value and further comprising:
e) adding the first attained win value to the first total win value; and
f) adding the first attained loss value to the first total loss value.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising;
e) receiving, by the central server, second score update information associated with a second player account from a second amusement device;
f) comparing, by the central server, second best score information associated with the second player account with the received second score update information, the second best score information including a third high score and a third lifetime win-loss record; and
g) transmitting, via the central server, the game listing of the plurality of electronic games including the first maximum points game and the first head-to-head game and a best score listing of the second best score information to the second amusement device, the first maximum points game positioned proximate the third high score and the first head-to-head game positioned proximate the third lifetime win-loss record on a second display of the second amusement device.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
e) receiving, by the central server, a prompt from the first amusement device to display the first high score to a social network; and
f) transmitting, from the central server, a command to display the first high score to the social network.
10. A method of tracking first best score information of a first player for a plurality of electronic games played by the first player on a plurality of amusement devices including a first amusement device of a plurality of amusement devices connected via a central server, each of the plurality of amusement devices having a display, a memory and a controller, the method comprising:
a) receiving, by the central server, first log-in information associated with the first player and a first player account from the first amusement device, the first player account stored by the central server;
b) transmitting, by the central server, the first player account to the first amusement device, the first player account including first best score information, the first best score information having a first high score associated with a first maximum points game, a second high score associated with a second maximum points game and a first lifetime win-loss record associated with a first head-to-head game;
c) receiving, by the central server from the first amusement device, an update to the first player account, the update comprising first new best score information generated based on the first player playing one or more of the plurality of electronic games on the first amusement device; and
d) transmitting a command from the central server to the first amusement device to display on a first video display of the first amusement device a game listing of the plurality of electronic games and a first best score listing of the first new best score information, the first high score positioned proximate the first maximum points game, the second high score positioned proximate the second maximum points game and the first lifetime win-loss record positioned proximate the first head-to-head game.
11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of amusement devices includes a second amusement device and further comprising:
e) receiving, via the central server from the second amusement device, the first log-in information;
f) transmitting, by the central server to the second amusement device, the first player account;
g) transmitting a command from the central server to the second amusement device to display on a second video display of the second amusement device a first global rank of the first player for the first maximum points game.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
h) transmitting a command from the central server to display, on the second video display, the game listing and the first best score listing.
13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first best score information includes a second lifetime win-loss record associated with a second head-to-head game and further comprising:
e) transmitting a command from the central server to the first amusement device to display, on the first video display, the second head-to-head game in the game listing and the second lifetime win-loss record in the first best score listing.
14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
e) receiving, by the central server, a prompt from the first amusement device to display first lifetime win-loss record to a social network; and
f) transmitting, from the central server, a command to display the first lifetime win-loss record to the social network.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the first video display is comprised of a touchscreen video display, the prompt of step (e) is based on contact between the first player and the touchscreen video display.
16. An amusement system for tracking game score information over a plurality of amusement devices for a plurality of players including a first player participating in game play, the amusement system comprising:
a plurality of games available for game play including a first maximum points game and a first head-to-head game;
a plurality of player accounts associated with the plurality of players including a first player account associated with the first player, the first player account including first best score information, the first best score information including a first high score for the first maximum points game and a first lifetime win-loss record for the first head-to-head game; and
a central server storing the plurality of electronic games and the plurality of player accounts, the central server configured to:
(i) receive first score update information associated with the first player account from a first amusement device of the plurality of amusement devices, the first score update information including a first attained high score associated with the first maximum points game, a first attained win value and a first attained loss value;
(ii) access the first player account; and
(iii) compare the first score update information with the first best score information including comparing the first attained high score with the first high score and the first attained win and loss values with the first lifetime win-loss record.
17. The amusement system of claim 16 , wherein the central server is configured to replace the first high score with the first attained high score when the first attained high score is greater than the first high score.
18. The amusement system of claim 16 , wherein the central server is configured to add the first attained win value to a first lifetime win record of the first lifetime win-loss record and the first attained loss value to a first lifetime loss record of the first lifetime win-loss record.
19. The amusement system of claim 16 , wherein the central server is configured to receive a log-in request information associated with the first player account, the central server blocking the first player from playing any of the plurality of amusement devices until verification of the log-in request information with stored information of the first player account.
20. The amusement system of claim 16 , wherein the central server further stores global rank information related to the first maximum points game, the central server further configured to calculate a first global rank of the first player for the first maximum points game and transmit a command to the first amusement device to display the first global rank on the video display of the first amusement device.