Digital Media-Based Award System for Gaming

摘要

A method and system for integrating game products with sale and dissemination of digital media to players includes providing for players to purchase digital media for download at a purchase price that enters the player into a game wherein the player's downloaded digital media determines whether or not the player has won in the game. The digital media is downloaded from a library, wherein each digital media is modified from an original format to have a winning or losing status indication. Players in the game download and listen to or view select ones of the digital media as a game pieces in the game to determine if the downloaded digital media is a winning digital media.

主权项

1. A digital media-based award system for use in gaming, comprising:
a library of the individual digital media, wherein each digital media is modified from an original format, the individual digital media being game pieces in a game; the original format of a defined number of the digital media in the library modified to have an auditory or visual indication of a winning status in the game, each of the winning status digital media having a respective prize award associated therewith; the original format of a remaining number of the digital media in the library modified to have an auditory or visual indication of a losing status in the game; and wherein players in a game download and listen to or view select ones of the digital media as a game pieces in the game to determine if the downloaded digital media is a winning digital media.