Integrated gambling process for games with explicit random events
View Patent ↗A gambling hybrid game with a gambling integrated game 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 entertainment system engine provides an entertainment game that includes random events. When a random event occurs in the entertainment game, the game world engine resolves the random event using random outcomes from the real world engine and provides the results of the random event to the entertainment software engine. The random outcomes are also used to resolve a gambling event corresponding to the random event.
1. A casino electronic game machine providing 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
generate a gambling event resolution using the random number generator;
generate a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager of real world credits in the gambling game using the gambling event resolution and real world credit pay table;
distribute the gambling event resolution to the game world engine;
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 system engine constructed to:
execute the entertainment game to resolve a random event in the entertainment game to generate random event results;
generate a visual display of the entertainment game on a display screen;
provide the random event results to a game world engine;
generate a visual display of the random event results on the display screen; and
a user input device configured to receive from a player a wagering amount to use during game play; and
the game world engine constructed to:
determine an occurrence of a gambling event in the gambling game based on play of the entertainment game executed by the entertainment system engine;
request a resolution to the gambling event by the real world engine;
determine gambling results based upon the random event results and the gambling event resolution; and
distribute the gambling results to the entertainment system engine for use in executing the entertainment game.
2. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1 , wherein the real world engine is further configured to:
receive, from the game world engine, the random event results;
determine the gambling results based in part from random event results; and
provide, to the game world engine, the gambling results.
3. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1 , wherein entertainment system engine is further constructed to:
detect the random event is to occur during execution of the entertainment game;
request, from the game world engine, gambling information for the random event;
receive, from the game world engine, the gambling information for the random event; and
provide the gambling information to the player during execution of the entertainment game.
4. The casino electronic game machine of claim 3 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to:
generate the gambling information for the random event.
5. The casino electronic game machine of claim 4 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to:
request, from the real world engine, the gambling information for the random event; and
receive, from the real world engine, the gambling information for the random event.
6. The casino electronic game machine of claim 5 , wherein the real world engine is further constructed to:
determine the gambling information for the random event; and
provide, to the game world engine, the gambling information for the random event.
7. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to:
receive player information from a player management system; and
use the random event results and the player information to determine the gambling results for the random event.
8. The casino electronic game machine of claim 1 , wherein the game world engine is further constructed to:
receive game provider information from a game provider system; and
use the random event results and the game provider information to determine the gambling results for the random event.