User selectable gamblng game hybrid game
View Patent ↗A hybrid game having a user selectable gambling game is provided. The hybrid game includes a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a real credit wager for a plurality of gambling games, an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game to earn a payout of game world credits, and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger at least one wager in the gambling game to the gambling game, receive entertainment game variable data from the entertainment software engine to determine what type of gambling game to execute, from a plurality of gambling games, and initiate a gambling game, from the plurality of gambling games, in the real world engine utilizing the real credit wager, based upon the entertainment game variable data received from the entertainment software engine.
1. A casino electronic game machine for providing a user selectable gambling game hybrid 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;
adjust the real world credit meter on the basis of the randomly generated payout of real world credits;
an entertainment software engine configured to execute an entertainment game stored on a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, wherein the entertainment game provides outcomes based upon skillful execution of the entertainment game to earn a payout of real world credits;
a display screen configured to:
display a user interface that depicts at least one graphic representing a selectable gambling game of a plurality of gambling games; and
display a change in the real world credit meter;
a user input device configured to receive a player's skillful selection of the graphic representing the selectable gambling game of the plurality of gambling games during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game; and
a game world engine constructed to:
monitor 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;
communicate the gameplay gambling event occurrence to the real world engine, where the gambling event occurrence triggers the wager of real world credits made in accordance with a wager execution rule executed by the real world engine during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game;
receive entertainment game variable data from the entertainment software engine to determine the selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games, wherein the entertainment game variable data includes the player's skillful selection of the graphic representing the selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games; and
initiate the selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games in the real world engine utilizing the real credit wager.
2. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1 , wherein each gambling game of the plurality of gambling games has a different volatility index.
3. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2 , wherein the selected gambling game is a slot machine.
4. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2 , wherein the selected gambling game is roulette.
5. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2 , wherein the selected gambling game is wheel of fortune (big 6 wheel).
6. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2 , wherein the selected gambling game is poker.
7. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2 , wherein the selected gambling game is blackjack.
8. The casino electronic game machine of claim 2 , wherein the selected gambling game is craps.
9. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1 , wherein failure to skillfully select the gambling game from the plurality of gambling games causes the player to be penalized in the entertainment game.