Enriched game play environment (single and/or multi-player) for casino applications
View Patent ↗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.
1. A method of operating a gaming system, comprising:
providing a real world engine that receives a wager of real world credit and determines a gambling outcome of a gambling game using the wager;
providing an entertainment software engine that determines game world credit based on a player's skillful play of an entertainment game;
providing a game world engine that creates an enabling element for the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine based on the wager of real world credit, the enabling element consumed by the player during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine;
correlating by the game world engine the wager of real world credit of the real world engine with the enabling element of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine by triggering the real world engine to execute the gambling game to consume the wager of real word credit when the player consumes the enabling element during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine; and
accumulating the game world credit by the game world engine based on the player's skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a type of the enabling element is based on an amount of the wager of real world credit.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein, an amount of the enabling element is based on an amount of the wager of 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 a type of the enabling element is changed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game based on an outcome of the gambling game.
6. 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 during skillful play of the entertainment game.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit wagered in the gambling game based on an amount of the enabling element consumed by the player during skillful play of the entertainment game.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a rate the enabling element is consumed by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a level the player achieves in the entertainment game by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the level the player achieves in the entertainment game is based on game world credits accumulated by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of enabling elements are created, consumed and correlated.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of enabling elements are consumed at different rates based on the player's skillful play of the entertainment.
13. The method of claim 11 , 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.
14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for a method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising;
providing a real world engine that receives a wager of real world credit and determines a gambling outcome of a gambling game using the wager;
providing an entertainment software engine that determines game world credit based on a player's skillful play of an entertainment game;
providing a game world engine that creates an enabling element for the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine based on the wager of real world credit, the enabling element consumed by the player during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine;
correlating by the game world engine the wager of real world credit of the real world engine with the enabling element of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine by triggering the real world engine to execute the gambling game to consume the wager of real word credit when the player consumes the enabling element during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine; and
accumulating the game world credit by the game world engine based on the player's skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein a type of the enabling element is based on an amount of the wager of real world credit.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein, an amount of the enabling element is based on an amount of the wager of real world credit.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein an amount of the enabling element is accumulated based on an outcome of the gambling game.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein a type of the enabling element is changed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game based on an outcome of the gambling game.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a type of the enabling element consumed by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on the amount of the enabling element consumed by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on the rate the enabling element is consumed by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein an amount of the wager of real world credit is wagered in the gambling game based on a level the player achieves in the entertainment game by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the level the player achieves in the entertainment game is based on game world credits accumulated by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein a plurality of enabling elements are created, consumed and correlated.
25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 24 , wherein, the plurality of enabling elements are consumed at different rates based on skillful play of the entertainment game by the player.
26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25 , 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 skillfully played by the player.
27. A gaming system, comprising:
a real world engine constructed to receive a wager of real world credit and determines a gambling outcome of a gambling game using the wager;
an entertainment software engine constructed to to determine game world credit based on a player's skillful play of an entertainment game; and
a game world engine constructed to:
create an enabling element for the entertainment game of the an entertainment software engine based on the wager of real world credit, the enabling element consumed by the player during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine;
correlate the wager of real world credit of the real world engine with the enabling element of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine by triggering the real world engine to execute the gambling game to consume the wager of real word credit when the player consumes the enabling element during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine; and
accumulate the game world credit based on the player's skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine.
28. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine a type of the enabling element based on an amount of the wager of real world credit.
29. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to determine an amount of the enabling element based on an amount of the wager of real world credit.
30. The gaming system of claim 27 , 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.
31. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to change a type of the enabling element during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game based on an outcome of the gambling game.
32. The gaming system of claim 27 , 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 skillful play of the entertainment game.
33. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the real world engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager of real world credit in the gambling game based on an amount of the enabling element consumed by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
34. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager of real world credit in the gambling game based on the rate the enabling element is consumed by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
35. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the real word engine is further constructed to wager an amount of the wager of real world credit in the gambling game based on a level the player achieves in the entertainment game by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
36. The gaming system of claim 35 , wherein the level the player achieves in the entertainment game is based on game world credits accumulated by the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.
37. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the entertainment software engine is constructed to use a console video game as the entertainment game.
38. The gaming system of claim 27 , wherein the entertainment software engine is constructed to use a personal computer video game as the entertainment game.