Gambling game objectification and abstraction
Electronic gaming machines including a plurality of real world controller modules, wherein each real world controller module is constructed to provide a gambling game; a game world controller, wherein the game world controller is constructed to: connect to a selected real world module; receive a conveyance of actions taken by a player, during the player's consumption of one or more elements of an entertainment game; trigger a commitment of a wager of real world credits in the selected real world controller module's gambling game; receive a gambling outcome of the wager of real world credits; increment in the entertainment game using the communications network, the one or more elements of the entertainment game when real world credits are won; and decrement in the entertainment game using the communications network, the one or more elements of the entertainment game when real world credit is lost.
1. An electronic gaming machine constructed to receive real credits from a user, comprising:
an entertainment software engine constructed to provide an entertainment game, the entertainment game including one or more elements for utilization by a user during play of the entertainment game,
wherein the entertainment software engine is operatively connected to a user input device and a user output device;
wherein the entertainment software engine receives, from the user, a selection of a configuration of a real world engine module;
wherein the selected configuration determines an allowable number of times that the configured real world engine module may be called; and
wherein the selected configuration determines a frequency with which the configured real world module may be invoked; and
a game world engine constructed to:
operatively connect to a plurality of real world engine modules using a communication link; and
associate the user's utilization of the one or more elements of the entertainment game during play of the entertainment game with a triggering of a commitment of a wager of real credits to a gambling game of a real world engine module; and
the plurality of real world engine modules, each real world engine module constructed to:
receive, from the user, the selection of the real world engine module configuration;
configure the real world engine module in accordance with the user selection;
couple the entertainment software engine to the configured real world engine module via the game world engine by enabling triggering of the commitment of the wager of real world credits in the configured real world engine module's gambling game by the user's utilization of the one or more elements of the entertainment game during the user's play of the entertainment game;
operatively connect to a credit input device; and
operatively connect to a credit output device.
2. The electronic gaming machine of claim 1 , wherein the selected configuration configures the selected real world engine module's gambling game denomination.
3. The electronic gaming machine of claim 1 ,
wherein the entertainment software engine and the game world engine are constructed from the same device.
4. The gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the selected configuration configures a paytable for the configured real world engine module's gambling game.
5. The gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the selected configuration is for setting a gambling limit for the configured real world engine module's gambling game.
6. The gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the selected configuration determines limits on the amount or frequency of wagers made during a gambling game implemented by the configured real world engine module.