SOCIAL COLLABORATION IN COMMUNITY CASINO GAME OFFERED AS PLAYER INCENTIVE

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for enhancing social collaboration in an online casino game. One method includes an operation for receiving bets from players playing in a first gambling mode in an online gambling room. The method also includes an operation for determining contributions to a community metric based on the outcomes of the bets, where all players in the online gambling room contribute towards the community metric. After detecting that the community metric reaches a predetermined goal, the online casino game enters all players in the online gambling room into a second gambling mode to achieve a room goal, where the value of the community metric does not change while players are in the second gambling mode.

主权项

1. A method executed by a server for playing a game from one or more remote client devices, the method comprising:
receiving bets from client devices facilitating play in a first gambling mode for an online gambling room; determining contributions to a community metric based on outcomes of the bets in the first gambling mode, wherein clients facilitating play in the online gambling room contribute toward the community metric as play progresses in the first gambling mode, wherein progress of the community metric is indicated by a community progress indicator, the community progress indicator having a characteristic that indicates increases in the community metric; detecting when the community metric reaches a predetermined goal based on the contributions; moving all said clients connected to the online gambling room into a second gambling mode different from the first gambling mode when the predetermined goal is reached, wherein the second gambling mode includes a room goal, wherein play of all said clients contribute toward achieving the room goal based on outcomes of bets placed in the second gambling mode; and ending the second gambling mode and returning all clients to the first gambling mode when the room goal is reached, wherein a value of the community metric does not change while players are in the second gambling mode.